Does dev even read stuff in the English forum?

[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.

[LilaIronman]

They do read it, I know for fact because being banned for half a month and getting posts removed but thats about the only thing they do

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

I don't think dev actively culls our post. That's the forum moderator's job, not the devs.

[LilaIronman]

I don't think dev actively culls our post. That's the forum moderator's job, not the devs.

True so not even Devs looking at their own forums

[Fawkes]

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.

They do go to the subreddit. They look at all forms of feedback. They just ignore a lot of it.

I think the most influential place for feedback is JP blogs, if you're passionate about the game you make a blog about it, if you're mad and want to complain you come to the official forums.

[CalvinDescoles]

looking on how things are handle these days and since the past 2/4 years : No

[Chajii]

It is funny that there are also many people on the JP forums complaining SE only listening to the EN forums because FFXIV is an international game or something similar.

One thing I noticed from going back and forth between reading JP forums and EN forums is that, usually there are more comments on JP side stating both what they want to be changed and a few suggestions that they consider good improvement for the situation that sounds reasonable/possible, whereas I see many of the comments on EN side are simply just "I don't like this and that" or asking for something that obviously SE would never do such as "bring back HW cleric stance" etc. (Of course I am not saying ALL of them are like that)

[Veritas-Ancora]

Over the last 11 years, I've had 7 times my question/feedback was answered.

That was a lot.

Over the last 4 years, I've never seen them address feedback on the forums, to my knowledge.

I feel like the forums used to be more constructive and less mean-spirited, but that's the world we live in.

[CaptainLagbeard]

The devs themselves definitely don't touch the English side of the forums.

But people around them might fill them in on some topics.

[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.