Not to be too rude but...

[Kiurai]

Does anyone know any active forum mods? Or any CMs? Like I know they do the feedback gathering and send it to the devs, but they react rather minimally I suppose? They pop in from time to time, but most introduce themselves and aren't seen much outside of bug reports and the like. I'm not saying they need to be here 24/7 answering every player concern because I doubt they'd have all the answers either but I think the occasional " We are sending 'x' feedback to the devs for consideration would be more than enough at least for me anyways. I think they do things rather well. But I know some people believe they don't communicate at all, and this might alleviate that notion. Sorry if it's a tad rant-y. Nothing against you CMs just wish you spoke alittle more on some pressing matters to the community is all.

[Kes13a]

Does anyone know any active forum mods? Or any CMs? Like I know they do the feedback gathering and send it to the devs, but they react rather minimally I suppose? They pop in from time to time, but most introduce themselves and aren't seen much outside of bug reports and the like. I'm not saying they need to be here 24/7 answering every player concern because I doubt they'd have all the answers either but I think the occasional " We are sending 'x' feedback to the devs for consideration would be more than enough at least for me anyways. I think they do things rather well. But I know some people believe they don't communicate at all, and this might alleviate that notion. Sorry if it's a tad rant-y. Nothing against you CMs just wish you spoke alittle more on some pressing matters to the community is all.

given how people usually are these days on forums, especially gaming ones, I can see why they would avoid things like general all together. Aside from things like technical areas, they probably avoid them like the plague

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

They used to be a lot more active and interactive.

Honestly, I believe the community itself drove them off. A combination of bad behavior and being unable to let anything go and seeing every change as a perceived slight.

[Kiurai]

They used to be a lot more active and interactive.

Honestly, I believe the community itself drove them off. A combination of bad behavior and being unable to let anything go and seeing every change as a perceived slight.

I get that CMs are the community's lightning rods after all. If you give them a name and face to blame they'll strike it. But I don't think they should just never interact but that's just me lol

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

It's not optimal, and it leaves people unfulfilled until it may e gets addressed in a video...but I think this is better for them.
Cause look at these forums....if people had a direct line and got direct interaction, the poor guys would be constantly flooded with 'ideas' or someone complaining about 'something'
And if people think communication is bad now...whoo boy

[RTX3080]

They have all been transferred to the FF16 customer support team.

[Wind-Krysvein]

I've been wondering about this a lot myself.

I played the game way back in 2013, and have followed it since the days of 1.0, and I can say for absolute certain that dev/rep communication used to be miles ahead of what it is now. The forums feel like a lawless wasteland at this point.

Honestly, I'd even be okay with the reps just popping in to reaffirmed us "we're constantly reading and gauging player reactions, so keep posting even if we don't respond directly" but even that seems like a far-off dream at this point.

[Drkdays]

Haven't you seen Wreck-it-Ralph 2? Never read the comments.

[Haruka_R]

Yea this forum is pretty wack.

[SomeRandomHuman]

it's like law enforcement on freeways. When everyone is speeding do you pull over the people driving too fast or do you pull over someone driving below the limit. Because most would pull over the latter since they're a bigger hazard to the majority that go faster than the limit.

Twisted I know, but the forums mods operate in a similar fashion. On a forum where everyone throws out mild unpleasantries and it occasionally riles something up does it warrant their attention? The answer is no because its the majority. I've seen mods ban folks from the forums for things that cross the line like lewd screencaps or derogatory language.

I personally picture the mod team as a small group of virtual ninjas; Ever present, but rarely spotted.