Quote Originally Posted by ForteNightshade View Post
Fun fact, you can't submit feedback or even most on this forum without a subscription. Therefore, you can't actually take a break and criticise the game.

What your line of reasoning fails to acknowledge is people posting actively want the game to improve. They want to play it yet have nothing to do because content has no longevity whatsoever. Case in point, when 6.3 dropped, I finished every major piece of content over the weekend. I then did take a break... and came back after well over a month to basically nothing. Deep Dungeon is fun and all but it can only carry a patch for so long. Ultimate was the only thing I didn't finish but that's a whole different type of content and not really relevant to the criticisms being levied at Endwalker. People shouldn't have to take 3-4 month long breaks because patch content is so dry it can hardly last a week much less twenty.
How stupid, you realize the devs also look in the general feedback of other media outlets besides the forums right? They're not going to just look at what people shout here because you'd be focusing on a single echo chamber. This is an MMO with lots of avenues for expression so you saying that "I have to pay for a sub in order to submit feedback" is just...ridiculous. You can provide feedback anywhere and its very much also effective to do so in a place that garner's a lot of traction if you find the right post/thread or whatever.

And somebody already said it but the most effective form of feedback for game companies is to actually vote with your wallet and stop playing this game if it upsets you so much that its not worth your time anymore. If so many people actually smarten up and do this more often we'd have better games and better practices but people who genuinely complain, complain and complain but still give these companies their money isnt helping anyone but the company.