I've been contemplating posting this for a while now. More than once I've written up something along these lines only to avoid posting it in the hope that things, in time, might just improve on their own. As it stands, though, they have not.

I've been posting on this forum for years. I enjoy the game for the most part and as a consequence of that enjoyment I like engaging with the community that has formed here - and I've made a few good friends in the process. So, with all that said allow me to get to the core of the matter.

Where are our community representatives?

From time to time, we see a thread made where a community representative introduces themselves. They're usually given a warm welcome but it's very rare to see them post again afterwards.

More recently - and without naming names - this forum has been plagued with subtly worded bait threads and thread 'necromancy' designed to frustrate and irritate the forum community.

This would likely be more apparent if the community representatives assigned to the English language portion of the forum spent more time here and less time on Twitter.

I do not want to come across as mean. I'd like to think that the community representatives are keeping tabs on things here. Perhaps their hands are simply tied for whatever reason. So I, on behalf of the forum community, humbly request that feedback is passed along to the development team in the vein of allowing the community representatives to have more freedom in regards to how and when they can post.

Even a simple comment on a constructive suggestion thread can do a world of good in regards to making people here feel as though their feedback is taken into account. To use an example, there's a pretty major concern from European players such as myself, as seen here:

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...ver-getting-it

This is the sort of thread I would expect to get more attention and an urgent response. It isn't an unreasonable request, after all - and if players are going to miss out on a mount altogether just because they aren't in the North American or Japanese region then it would be beneficial to know why.

I could link other examples of constructive threads that I would argue deserve attention from community representatives, but I'll keep it to just one example for now.

Again, I am not writing this with the intention of shaming our community representatives. This is just a humble request to be as visible and active here as you are on Twitter.