feedback? where?

[Jojoya]

We literally, like 2 or 3 weeks ago, just had the benchmark come out. It lead to tons and tons of feedback being posted on this forum about it. The devs responded to that feedback fairly quickly and have shown some fixed examples between now and then and we are getting a fresh, updated benchmark next week. The claim they don't read feedback is specious.

You're going to get people debating whether the feedback from the NA/EU players was heard, or if they were only listening to the JP players who had the same complaints.

We've had past evidence that the NA/EU feedback isn't getting to them. The incident that immediately comes to mind is YoshiP referring to players flocking to a single data center for group content in each region as a JP only problem during a live broadcast several months back. Yet that had been the hot topic here in the EN forums with respect to Aether and Chaos for close to 2 months before the broadcast.

So are the developers listening to at least the JP player feedback? Definitely. But it seems unlikely they're paying much attention to feedback from the players outside of JP.

I'll be honest. It's hard to blame them if they aren't. Most of the EN discussions going on aren't really constructive, whether it's here, reddit, or the various social media platforms. The majority of their time trying to sort through what is said would be wasted because we seem to be incapable of doing the one simple thing they've asked us to do - keep all feedback on a single topic in a single thread and don't derail it.