Quote Originally Posted by Mychael View Post
Some advantages to in-game reports...they can automatically capture the time, relevant logs (as opposed to us manually copy/pasting them), capture extremely specific coordinates, connection information, system information, etc--things that we manually have to copy/paste into bug reports on the forums.

But in the end, it's really an issue of convenience. People are more likely to Menu->Support->Report a Bug->I am Stuck!->Yes than to come all the way to the forums to post a "Hey, I jumped over this rock fell into the earth at X:189237.471854 Y:4192098357.94871324 in Gridania."
A more succinct version of exactly what I said LOL XD