Yoshi P... Please dont listen to subscribers!

[Kiroh]

How do you please which cannot be pleased?

By making a game engaging and amusing enough that they don't have the time to complain about not being pleased. =o

[Daku_Naito]

How do you please which cannot be pleased?

Moderation, compromise, it is the way of the world.

[Gramul]

How do you please which cannot be pleased?

Listening and distinguishing which individuals say what usually helps.

[Starlord]

Why yes, he should have to. A devs job is to create a game pleasing to the players, if he or the other devs are doing something wrong, then he should listen and fix the problem. The reason for the forums is to spark debate, just like the topics flying up everywhere, then they have a crew to read and relay to the devs in order to make the experience better for us all. Just because one group of people are saying something you disagree with, doesn't mean he shouldn't listen to them, it means you get your butt on the forums and argue why it shouldn't happen. They most posts in to account, and they is what evolves this and other MMOs.

Yes he is a great director, but to not accept feedback would be irresponsible of him. Which is why he is going to continue to accept feedback. The fact of the matter is, we play more than they play. Meaning we no what is awesome, and what needs to be fixed.

And to the above response about us being "investors," we kind of are. Because we are investing are time and money into a game in waiting for it to be awesome at 2.0.

All depends on the Feedback, The only feedback that should really be taken into consideration is Bugs and technical Difficulties, and some Feedback that deals with the game. Overall, he really should be doing his on thing, making the game through his eyes, not the gamers eyes..

Aiming to please the crowd? Kinda hard when alot of people have their own ways of thinking what is good and what is bad, but I feel as a player of any game in general, that I want to play the Companies game, not Player's opinions. Everyone's opinion differs from another, some way or another. The best thing any developer should do, is make the game the way they want it.

That said, I really hope 2.0 is the imagination of Yoshi-P and not the players. If Yoshi-P choose to take Feedback Game related to the game, then that's his decision and his alone, if that makes a game good then I'm all for it.

[Vanguard319]

i respect ur thoughts but with all do respect, yoshida shouldnt have to take feedback from players. now maybe if tanaka were still producer then ya he should take players suggestion. but this is yohi p man! hes doing an absolutly amazing job. when he writes in the letters and in his interviews he paints a beautiful picture and its from his own mind, not the players.

Constructive criticism is perfectly fine, as it will ultimately help improve weaker aspects of the game. I suspect you are referring to the people who keep posting the same dumbass troll topics over and over again, and those certainly are never constructive.

[Starlord]

Yoshi-P Make the game the way you want it to be, I wanna play YOUR game, not the players game. From what I have seen so far I love the direction, Take the Feedback that meaningful to how you visioned your game, and make the game through your eyes .

Players have the right to state their Opinions, But you Yoshi-P makes the Ultimate decision in the end. GO FOR THE GOLD!

[Gramul]

Heaven forbid they give investors what they want so they keep investing.

I want him to take our desires into account so we can avoid messes like dye based stat modifiers and randomized server mergers. I want him to pay attention to what people actually want so that by the time 2.0 comes around, there's still a community around to play it. Most importantly, don't make this game into another WoW structured clone with minor feature tweaks.

[Felis]

Heaven forbid they give investors what they want so they keep investing.

We are investors? I thought we are consumers ^^

Yoshi-P should use the feedback he think it would work with his vision and ignore the feedback that don't work at all.

[Gramul]

We are investors? I thought we are consumers ^^

Yoshi-P should use the feedback he think it would work with his vision and ignore the feedback that don't work at all.

A common misconception. You see, we're investors that also have the opportunity to play the hyper extended beta before the real game is released. Like Minecraft was.

And yes, he should be discreet in choosing what would be good for the game overall. I remember one certain member about a year or so that wanted Yoshi to add in every feature every MMO had going on at the time, without any regard to the overall structure of the game. Sometimes even suggesting conflicting features.

[Pandastirfry]

A common misconception. You see, we're investors that also have the opportunity to play the hyper extended beta before the real game is released. Like Minecraft was.

And yes, he should be discreet in choosing what would be good for the game overall. I remember one certain member about a year or so that wanted Yoshi to add in every feature every MMO had going on at the time, without any regard to the overall structure of the game. Sometimes even suggesting conflicting features.

Under no definition of the word are we investors, we are consumers.

Investors, invest a specific amount of money into a project or company with the understanding that they will see a return on that intial investment, in the form of clear monetary returns. They invest primarily in the company though, hoping to reap the profits as a whole, very rarely does an investor put money into a single project, especially when we're talking about large multinational companies like Square-Enix.

As CONSUMERS of a fee based product we want a return on our payments in the form of a desirable product that we will enjoy and continue to consume...


Yeah, no matter how you cut it, investor is not the correct term for what we are