Less and less SE interaction with forums community over time

[Kes13a]

They don't need to say much beyond a polite acknowledgement that feedback on a subject is being given to the development team.

It's not like they aren't already engaging with the community over on Twitter, at any rate - and this place, despite its flaws, is by far the more civil domain.

I agree, but when was teh last time on twitter some fool necro's something completely out of date?

[MintnHoney]

I agree, but when was teh last time on twitter some fool necro's something completely out of date?

Probably about the same time someone made a "DEEZ NUTS" joke. So, like, sometime in the last minute probably.

Frankly, Squeen is a company and should be able to handle themselves professionally even if the players who interact on the forums cannot. If we have to be concerned that Squeen can't handle themselves against feedback or general interactions with their little slice of public, then getting the forums moderated would be the least of my concerns for Squeens capability for public relations.
Then again, YP did say that he was going to avoid looking at feedback being received because it was "too harsh" so it hurt their feelings to read, some time ago, so I guess I don't really have any faith in their ability to interact with their players outside of barely coherent GM interactions anyway.

[DBriggs304]

Haven't seen much of either on this forum. At all.

[Laerune]

First page of the general discussion should be enough reason for SE to avoid this forum.

[Theodric]

First page of the general discussion should be enough reason for SE to avoid this forum.

Compared to...what, exactly?

Reddit? Twitter? Simply searching the FFXIV tag on the latter risks bringing up stuff far more disturbing than anything I have ever seen posted here.

Square Enix also has full control of this site. The only reason things are spiralling out of control periodically is due to the lack of a persistent, obvious presence. Which is something quite a lot of regular posters have been calling out for a while now.

[Lauront]

Compared to...what, exactly?

Reddit? Twitter? Simply searching the FFXIV tag on the latter risks bringing up stuff far more disturbing than anything I have ever seen posted here.

Square Enix have full control of this site. The only reason things are spiralling out of control periodically is due to the lack of a persistent, obvious presence.

Agreed. It's their forum, so any issues with the content here due to lack of moderation fall squarely on their shoulders.

[Iscah]

First page of the general discussion should be enough reason for SE to avoid this forum.

The first page of General Discussion is exactly why SE needs to spend more time on this forum and observe that the current standard of moderation is not working.

And it does need to be regular time spent, because a single glance suggests "the forum is a mess" but observation over time will make it pretty clear that most of the mess could be cleared up with better moderation.

[Lunalepsy]

They don't care. Don't worry!

[SturmChurro]

Yeah, and we've been talking about it for years, literally.

[Stormfur]

I miss seeing them around too. It was nice to get some acknowledgement from time to time that "hey, we'll pass this on to the devs" (even if they actually did or didn't).