Has posting in these forums ever changed anything ?

[DeltaCyan]

When they announced that Viper was going to receive changes and have half of its positionals removed, the forums responded by asking them not to.

The response was, "Okay we wont remove positionals, instead one of your core mechanics is gone now. Did anyone ask for this? No, we made this change without the feedback in mind."

So basically, they will only listen to feedback that they can agree with or can use as an excuse. If they dont, it gets ignored.

[Hallarem]

You are looking for the japanese forums friend. Thats the only thing they probably listen to.

[Tint]

I remember they improved WHMs Lillies before SB release (they were still awful) and the graphics update with DT (which some people still dislike) after backlash in the forums.

[Batbrat]

Isnt that how we got the current housing lottery system? People were literally begging on the forum for a lottery system for like a good solid 2 years, and then we finally got it and those same beggers were 10x more hysterical, screaming about how terrible it actually wound up being lmao. That and the changes they did to that one Nier raid I think because of eye issues or something.

[Tint]

Isnt that how we got the current housing lottery system? People were literally begging on the forum for a lottery system for like a good solid 2 years, and then we finally got it and those same beggers were 10x more hysterical, screaming about how terrible it actually wound up being lmao.

Same could be said about the demolition timer. The timer was also added by community request and now it's one of the prime examples how SE keeps players hostage.

[ovIm]

Same could be said about the demolition timer. The timer was also added by community request and now it's one of the prime examples how SE keeps players hostage.

The demolition timer is a doomed if you do, doomed if you don't feature unfortunately. It was implemented so that people who fully quit the game would not leave their house corpses behind, and that is not a bad thing, considering the awful housing system is not instanced and operates on actual plots within the game world.
The biggest issue with the current implementation is the relatively short timeframe until your house gets destroyed (45 days), which disincentivizes breaks from the game due to how sparce housing is and how much time/effort it takes to actually get into it. So really, how many other times, it was a feature with good intentions and awful implementation.

Semi related, I hope they implement the internal size change feature for houses for apartments as well...

[Sunhwapark]

Getting male Viera and female Hrothgar, I think ?
I remember those things blowing up when they introduced a first look at Viera and Hrothgar.
Only other things I could think of is probably Blue Mage being added to the game despite YoshiP saying it will never happen at one point, and probably summoners begging for Egi's for a few years.

[TBerry]

No, and in general there's very few pleasant people around here either, rendering the forums pointless for feedback, and just one example of how the community isn't as friendly and welcoming as it claims.

Guilty. Though I'm probably not the worst yet.

[Exmo]

Bug reports often get a look and some QoL suggestions make it to production. The couple dozen threads where people share their superficial complaints about the game's story or doomsay about the game's future, they achieve nothing other than ego stroking. Game development is hugely difficult and takes a long time to get most things done - especially with such a large-scale game as this. There's no way any development team could realistically keep pace with the majority of forum threads.

[Valence]

PVP seems like it exists to pad patch notes.

As someone who is involved in ranked, I do appreciate those pvp changes every time actually. They could certainly do more, but at least they tend to patch in the right direction most of the time (unlike pve). It's not just to "pad patch notes".