If there really is a desire to hear from players through official sources aka forums and the official Discord server, please consider updating the forums to more modern standards.
Some reasons as to why players do not use the forums is due to the outdated structure and design choices, alongside general difficulty of navigating.
This is a case of players not using the forums due to general accessibility and outdated formats, which leads to management and above not implementing any significant upgrades to the forums and potentially creating the false narrative for corporate that players are disinterested in engaging outside of the game, which leads to lack of any form of additional funding towards the forums.
It is not that players do not want to voice their thoughts, it is that the forums in their current state are not the most accessible platform for them to do so, and the alternatives available to them (Discord, Reddit, etc.) are simply more appealing.
Limiting Sol Erda energy even as a short-term fix for trying to control the player intake of 6th job resources was arguably one of the worst methods, and changes to the Oz Ring box drops are simply unnecessary.
Rather than directly addressing objective reasoning behind the lack of communication of how Frenzy Totems and Familiars will be treated in the foreseeable future, banning the words in the livestream and limiting access to the community discord was also arguably poor damage control.
The majority of players are interacting with the understanding that there cannot be full transparency and that CMs do not have immediate answers to most of these problems, but the choice to remove the right to even mention the topics was inevitable fuel to the fire.
The fact that the 6th job advancement as a whole was delayed with no communication, and that the playerbase only learned of these changes in contents due to the content creators and not from any official source, is creating severe uneasiness and frustration within the community.
I, alongside many others, will be waiting for an official response next week, and we hope that you do not take our sentiments lightly.
