Does dev even read stuff in the English forum?

[lilmoon]

The title says it all. I am just curious. I know they don't go to the ff14 sub Reddit for sure but some claim they only care about the Japanese official forum.

[Red-thunder]

The community managers technically read the forums and relay the feedback. But it's like a game of telephone and who knows what the dev team actually hears.

Also, it's not a good thing that they read the JP forums. They cherrypick random 3 like posts on the JP forums as justification for their bizarre moves like gutting Viper days after release, while ignoring the tens of thousands of likes on the JP forums that disagree that Viper is "too busy".

[Valence]

The community managers technically read the forums and relay the feedback. But it's like a game of telephone and who knows what the dev team actually hears.

Also, it's not a good thing that they read the JP forums. They cherrypick random 3 like posts on the JP forums as justification for their bizarre moves like gutting Viper days after release, while ignoring the tens of thousands of likes on the JP forums that disagree that Viper is "too busy".

Take it from an industry vet, this to me sounds more like some dev with some gravitas/authority (like a creative director, team lead or executive) decided that they found it too complicated or didn't like it and asked for it to be changed, and they just complied because they had to, then came up with random justifications to make up some back up claims.

[Dante131]

The title says it all. I am just curious. I know they don't go to the ff14 sub Reddit for sure but some claim they only care about the Japanese official forum.

short answer no. if even they only will care about jp and even them are frustrated because devs dont listen

[Mawlzy]

short answer no. if even they only will care about jp and even them are frustrated because devs dont listen

I can't verify it, but on the PvP boards someone asserted that JP PvPers are frustrated because they believe the devs only listen to NA/EU.

Certainly seems plausible that we're all being ignored because "SQEX knows best."

[Minarisweet]

I can't verify it, but on the PvP boards someone asserted that JP PvPers are frustrated because they believe the devs only listen to NA/EU.

Certainly seems plausible that we're all being ignored because "SQEX knows best."

Ive seen it mentioned too they just dont have very good communication with the playerbase these days.

[WutWut]

I can't verify it, but on the PvP boards someone asserted that JP PvPers are frustrated because they believe the devs only listen to NA/EU.

Certainly seems plausible that we're all being ignored because "SQEX knows best."

Nail on the head right here. If they listen to us or the JP players, it's only when they pick and choose to.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Makes you question where the hell they look for feedback…

-VPR Noxious Gas enters the chat-

Oh I see… lol

[miraidensetsu]

No.

I hope it helped.

[Hallarem]

Cherrypicked feedback is starting to look more and more like the case if you look at the timeline.