Discuss : is ffxiv in trouble

[Katish]

There's a large amount of silent people because of how people behave on the forums. It's usually people arguing, or being so loud and excited over materialistic things that any post related to qol or fine tuning a long list of super annoying parts of the game... It's just ignored, ridiculed, and buried under a massive pile of "noise".

But even then it's easy to determine what that "noise" is...that still doesn't undermine what the point of the argument was. It's worse to do nothing than to do something. That was my argument, pandering to a silent majority accomplishes nothing thus we get nothing accomplished. "Because apparently the place were our opinions matter is for naught." Why even have a forum if our opinions warrant zero value?

As I have brought up in the past HSR is listening to feedback because they provide surveying as means to receive it, and that generates a positive outlook for the game. Since we don't even have that, the forums is the next best place for giving said feedback to the devs. But if someone rejects notions and keeps pandering to the silent majority then obviously they are going to overlook any sort of feedback present. (Because the ones who think they are being positive are actually hindering progress because companies would rather do nothing and profit than be held responsible)

Do note, I do not blame Yoshida, the fault lies solely with Square as an enterprise. Companies want the least amount of effort for the most amount of money. And despite what people think, they do value public opinion of them because that is what keeps new players flowing (or at least I would hope so or else truly nothing would get done).