Bring back Q&A for the next liveletters please

[Exmo]

Nah they'd only just cherry pick the questions they answer, instead of doing what I want which is pulling a question randomly out of a giant hat and, live on air, accidentally reading out a right wing dog whistle submitted by one of the many forum users with more alts than sense.

[Supersnow845]

useless, i can guarantee that question like "more glamour plate when ?" and "more housing when?" will be asked and picked while it was asked and answered 1000 times already because that community don't dare to ask real question about that awful gamedesign and LL/events are for PR talk so anything is cherry picked

You just know you’d get

“i wove this game so much and i-it’s so much better t-than cwappy wow but wowd yoshi p can we pwease get s-some more gwamouw pwates so i can make some m-more cute gposes”

[CalvinDescoles]

Actual Q&A :

"Can we have *random NPC item* in cash shop"
- Yes i don't see why not

[Valence]

Usually I would be for something like this, but.... Honestly, it won't solve anything.

Questions they won't want an answer to will get some redirected non-answer comment... and the questions they do actually answer will be questions that we don't really need an answer to, or serve no purpose to the game.

You'd actually be surprised by all the things that got actually answered over time, and how it could give a lot of clues. Like how they decided to shift the job balance away from job difficulty (early SB release Q&A LL37 or something), which ironically have stated later past ShB that they still do.
But I do agree that a lot of points of contention channeled inside questions have most of the time had Yoshida reply with a classic yoshi answer along the lines of "it's difficult, on one hand, we have players that are bored with healers, but on the other hand when we raised healing difficulty of savage it was an outcry so we're still thinking on it", where eventually we never get a follow up on where they ultimately decided their direction would go.
And that's the whole problem, they do absolutely refuse to talk about their direction and vision for what they want, leaving everybody in the dark and frustrated about it. And then we get presented with done deals and people complain.

[Daralii]

You'd actually be surprised by all the things that got actually answered over time, and how it could give a lot of clues. Like how they decided to shift the job balance away from job difficulty (early SB release Q&A LL37 or something), which ironically have stated later past ShB that they still do.
But I do agree that a lot of points of contention channeled inside questions have most of the time had Yoshida reply with a classic yoshi answer along the lines of "it's difficult, on one hand, we have players that are bored with healers, but on the other hand when we raised healing difficulty of savage it was an outcry so we're still thinking on it", where eventually we never get a follow up on where they ultimately decided their direction would go.
And that's the whole problem, they do absolutely refuse to talk about their direction and vision for what they want, leaving everybody in the dark and frustrated about it. And then we get presented with done deals and people complain.

Even when they talk about doing something definitively, there's no guarantee that they'll actually do it. They said ahead of EW's release that rewards from old Crystalline Conflict seasons would go into the trophy crystal store, they maintained radio silence on it until 2025, and the new stance is that they're thinking about maybe doing it at some point.

[Valence]

And then you can hold them accountable for it.

[Doki]

Yes, let's get more useful questions like "Please add grilled cheese sandwich to the game"

[Valence]

That'd be exactly like not bringing back Q&A and doing nothing in essence.

[Veritas-Ancora]

I'd like to see Q&A come back. The forums have become toxic cesspools and Q&A brought everyone together. Not just the people screaming that the game is dead.

If they cherry pick, so what? It means they had to read the forums in the first place.

[CaptainLagbeard]

While it would be nice to have Q&A back, the team very likely doesn't want to answer questions.
Especially with how DT's turned out so far.


There probably wouldn't be enough easy questions to cherry pick.