Yoshi P in a nutshell

[Deo14]

Out of curiosity, what magnitude are we talking about here? The thread you posted had 20 Likes, but I'm assuming that isn't the primary Kaiten thread. How many Likes did the primary thread have?

You should check DPS subforums, first page has 5/20 threads for SAM, while there is 11 DPS jobs + threads don't necessarily have to focus on single job. Celesti's thread has 100+ likes, with it being biggest thread for what I could see in whole timespan of this expansion in the DPS subforum, regarding most metrics. Some old thread about damage taxes has 4 more pages, but less likes and views and last comment was in november 2022. There are other larger threads for SAM, just check DPS subforum and first like 10-15 pages.

I think it's safe to say SAM shenanigans do have most prevalent presence in here. So it's biggest outlier, but devs don't even acknowledge it, that's the problem. If they don't acknowledge biggest outlier, which even has relatively easy solution, why should we expect they'll listen to any lower magnitude of our input?

With respect, I would say that none of us are ever owed a response from a game developer. It's nice when we do get one, and good PR for the company, but I don't think it's owed. In addition, it seems like Yoshi-P already did give a response: that they'd look at feedback and consider that going forward. The fact that they haven't rolled it back after so long seems like the period at the end of that sentence.

I think it's just disrespectful if we give overwhelming feedback after they specifically asked us to give that feedback on this exact issue, and they don't respond to it at all or acknowledge it in over 1.5 year.

Their last response was in 6.1 patch reading stream, which was before it went live. So there was no discussions with them after we actually got to try out the changes. I think that I remember them saying things like "try it out first", but well, we did, but now they're not responding, so what now?