Less and less SE interaction with forums community over time

[Theodric]

The ideal situation is for feedback to be gathered from multiple sources, including this forum. If they're looking only at Twitter and Reddit for feedback these days then they're going to get a very different impression about what the game supposedly needs compared to what they'll find if they sift through this forum and look at the numerous constructive suggestions to be found.

We've also had community representatives show up, introduce themselves and never post again - which is certainly startling when the sub forums based around other languages do not seem to suffer the same problem.

Given that many suggestions have been made here, gained plenty of traction and then haven't made their way to Yoshi-P based on his answers to interview questions I'm inclined to believe there may be a blockage in the pipeline somewhere.

[Kes13a]

The ideal situation is for feedback to be gathered from multiple sources, including this forum. If they're looking only at Twitter and Reddit for feedback these days then they're going to get a very different impression about what the game supposedly needs compared to what they'll find if they sift through this forum and look at the numerous constructive suggestions to be found.

We've also had community representatives show up, introduce themselves and never post again - which is certainly startling when the sub forums based around other languages do not seem to suffer the same problem.

Given that many suggestions have been made here, gained plenty of traction and then haven't made their way to Yoshi-P based on his answers to interview questions I'm inclined to believe there may be a blockage in the pipeline somewhere.

while I do not say you are wrong, you are still overlooking the fact that they could very well read the forums and just not post to them. anything posted here is going to be the same, but different game wishlists. regardless of where you go, reddit, twitter, a dark bar in Tokyo or these forums... not everyone goes there. you are only getting a sliver of information pertaining to a very small group of the playerbase. so constructive feedback they can pull from multiple sources, these forums do not have any kind of exclusively beneficial suggestions.

as for community reps showing up and posting and poofing, we have no idea what happened after that. which could be why they dont come around any more. I mean lets face it, there are some disturbed people online, so who knows in all reality, could have been some incident that we never heard about, a change in company policy, who knows. as with most things on a forum, its all just speculation.

as far as I can see, from their virtual fanfest and the general attitude, the devs dont hate us and they do seem to love their game, I think people are reading too much into this. times change, methods of gathering data, opinions and feedback change, communication changes. we have discovered fire, medicine and flight.. I am sure we will weather this change as well.