Do devs post on the English forum?

[LittleArrow]

yet you see them posting on EU and JP forums, eh?

the reason i say "in a way" for live letters is because there are usually a lot of unanswered questions. they give us information they want to give - which is understandable don't give me wrong, but sometimes there are questions left unanswered for a long time. job balancing issues, housing issues, server issues, pvp issues (especially in the past) and many more issues that have been or are still currently left unanswered for a long time. im not going to go into details of every little thing that could be communicated. even a simple "we're working on it" would ease the minds of a lot of players.

and when i say breadcrumbs, i mean those very few rare times that the devs (or yoshida himself) have actually posted when it was severe enough.

in conclusion, because i am not trying to argue here, i was just agreeing to the poster i had quoted: those live letters which are, what, a month or months apart, that mostly only details things relating to the next patch... and the Q and A which are cherry picked and avoid questions they want to avoid or have been answered many times before, is a form of communication, but there are a lot of unanswered questions that make players lose faith in the dev team. a simple "we're working on it" instead of waiting half a year before finally releasing information about it.

also, i want to note, i do not dislike this game. i love it and it has its faults, and while i do not think the dev team is ignoring or "despising us" like the other poster, i also think they could be better with their forums. simply put.

I hope I'm not sounding like I'm arguing either, and I don't think you are - I'm just really tired of the constant negativity (not saying you're apart of that) and I'm SO confused by what this forum community really wants. I genuinely want clarity, and even though I know you don't represent the entire forum community - you're at least willing to 1. respond and 2. be civil - so thank you.

I guess, to me, it just sounds like people don't like the answers that are given rather than there are no answers given at all - please correct me if I'm wrong on this.

(I'm not trying to pick apart your response, it's totally reasonable, but this is the only specific one I have) The unanswered questions seem very answered to me - the housing issues I've read is there aren't enough houses: the original answer to this were apartments (people didn't like them, and I understand why!), so then the answer was - "we can't we don't have enough server space," so people didn't like that (again, I get it and agree with the criticism) - Yoshi added more wards but not enough and the way to purchase them were garbage; he answered this by saying they're really struggling with servers and they're trying to buy new ones.

I'll just stick with the above example; now, I try to look at this through the lens of "we're not given enough posts on the forums," but what would be posted? The exact information Yoshi has already given and it would just incite a lot of anger and frustration. So I don't see housing being an unanswered issue - it's an ongoing issue for sure, and the community is unhappy with the answers (rightfully so), but the answer was given, many many times.

I honestly have not visited the JP / EU forums, so my view on this is totally limited to what I've experienced here. Could you think of an example of where there was a developer issue and it was answered?

I completely agree with you that this game is great and it isn't perfect. It NEEDS criticism. Just from what I've been reading recently it doesn't seem like there's criticism so much as complaining, and to me those are very different. I don't think you're complaining. I don't think issues being brought up and SE being asked to do better (VIERA / HROTH HATS PLZ?!?!?!) is bad - even harshly criticizing them and pointing out that their responses don't align with what they've said (YOSHI CRITICIZED GENDER-LOCKED RACES IN 1.X BUT IS TOTALLY COOL FOR THEM IN 5.0 ONWARD?!?!?!). I just want to understand these threads better. Thank you for doing that.