Quote Originally Posted by strawberrycake View Post
I would LOVE a blog just detailing his JP interviews, and iirc the NA community managers are helping with events and translation for events at times, I know we have a new forum mod, but I never see or hear much from the NA community, and comparing them to the EU team who streams, it's kinda sad given i'd love an NA stream for us to talk about the game and push feed back through.

And honestly, I think Mr.Happy is the only affiliate we have left that actually does provide active feed back.
There is a NA stream with the Community team - Duty Commenced. Think they get done every 4-6 weeks.

There are other content creators that offer feedback but MrHappy is better at identifying when something is his personal opinion (and when it's not representative of the general community) and when it's an opinion found in community feedback he's seen and read.

The big problem will always be the feedback from the silent majority. All SE can do is infer how the majority feels through what they choose to do in game and when they start/stop playing because those players aren't letting SE know what they actually feel.

Back to the topic of information released in interviews, if they're concerned about "maybes" in interviews being taken as gospel by players reading those interviews then those things shouldn't be included in interviews. As far as the interviewer is concerned, YoshiP or other developer is an official source and they're providing information they want shared.

If what is being shared is something under consideration but not finalized for implementation, then the Community team should be posting a blog to stress that the information is not a guarantee of what is to come because the interviewer may not make that point in their article. If an article gets published with misstatements, SE needs to be active in getting those misstatements corrected.