Quote Originally Posted by Ronduwil View Post
I'm saying that the decision maker, SE, has the proof that they themselves have gathered through random surveys that cover the entire population, and they've been making the decisions they've been making. Make of that what you will.


I don't need proof because I'm not the one asking SE to do anything other than what they've already done and are continuing to do. The proof is in the decisions that SE has made based on their surveys.

I've been playing for 2 years and have not seen 1 survey sent to me about the game. I doubt that I'm the only one and just like you claim the forums/reddit/Discord isn't an accurate horizontal slice of the playerbase neither is a survey.



Quote Originally Posted by SieyaM View Post
The player base could also do it's part to help underperforming players by actually teaching them things but there is often a lot of hostility when players are grouped with someone not performing up to their standards. I know people are going to be all "people report me for just telling them tips on their job" but what they think a tip looks like goes along the lines of "you're terrible and should watch a job guide or uninstall you're wasting everyone's time".
I've seen plenty of people giving reasonable feedback/tips to players who go off the deep end; NOT "You suck go watch a guide" (because that would be against ToS). Things like "Hey, as a healer you might want to DPS while our health is full." or "As a tank you need to cycle your mitigations." or "You should be using X skill" and see the other player snap back with almost always some white knight there perpetuating the poor play. I'd love to see examples of lines that you say are common because I can guarantee that for every 1 that's like that, there's 10 that are the way I described.

I agree with the general idea of your post, the player base could be a lot better at giving suggestions. But the overall environment doesn't foster that, people are afraid of getting banned because someone takes it the wrong way (I realize that won't happen, but this is the flip side to the "aggressive" ToS, people are afraid because they don't fully understand it), or get into an argument and slow down the dungeon run, or get kicked from the party for "causing trouble." Given how short most duties are, it's better to just shut up and ride it out.