Quote Originally Posted by Supersnow845 View Post
I’ve never understood the argument of “the forums are a negative echo chamber so you should just assume that everyone who isn’t on here is mostly happy” for 2 reasons

1) this is where we are told to come to make a complaint if we aren’t happy with something in the game, complaints are why this forum exists

2) if square has such hard and fast data on the fact that these complaints don’t represent the general playerbase why do they never engage with us on here, you could shut the entire healer subforum up in 5 seconds if a GM posted “according to squares internal data healer gameplay and engagement are where we desire them to be at and as such we do not see a reason to redesign the healers again”. Instead they remain completely silent while we argue over the tiny bit of data we can pull from the game ourselves

The fact that the devs tell us to come to the forums then just ignore us while we argue amongst ourselves is exactly why the forums are the way they are
If a dev posted in the English forums people would bombard the hell outta them, though. Political debate culture in the English forums over matters of opinion , left and right vibes, yeah... Nope. I couldn't see myself saying anything in here if I were a dev. However, I completely agree that the lack of acknowledgement from Square Enix on the English forums is very off-putting