The Disconnect between Players and Developers: Bug Reports Not Taken Seriously?

[Gralna]

Many bugs that make it past launch that aren't "critical"usually get placed into a bucket that's basically labelled "fix if you have time". It's very easy for these issues to get completely forgotten about by both the dev and qa teams, especially if the issues are not kept up to date regularly on their internal systems or they might get backburnered unless there is a surge in CS reports about it (i.e. ungarmax exploit).

Or it could just be that the issue is irrelevant due to future changes that are coming, at fanfest Yoshi mentioned tuning each job again for 5.0. Might be that issues with certain skills are being slated to be fixed, modified, or removed during that time. Why spend dev time fixing a minor issue, that in 6 months won't even be relevant?

As far as the category change, I'm not sure. That'd be something solely up to the devs to reveal, but don't think I've ever seen a dev officially post on the forums aside from messages from Yoshi and Koji.

Could also be that the issue has already been fixed on the version the devs/qa is on, so they weren't able to replicate it on their end.