Game 3 Feedback - Part 2

[arivess.livejournal.com]

Part 2 of the super-long poll of I'm-sorry-it's-so-super-long!

This one part is about ff_classchange and airship_lounge.

As a note, I will be posting a mod contact list soon, so if you have any issues with any of these communities and would rather discuss with the mods heading them, you can ask them directly! For now, most of them are okay with PMs and such.

Once again, please use this system for scales:

1 - CHANGE IT NOW CHANGE IT PLEASE
2 - There are some really, really big problems that need fixing like now
3-4 - There are some really big problems, but I'm not going to quit over them
5-6 - I don't really like it, but I can live with it
7-8 - There are some problems, but it's not too bad
9 - There really isn't anything wrong with it
10 - It's perfect, please don't change it!

And again, please note that textbox entry limit is 255 characters, and you can PM/IM/email/etc me answers if you don't want to comment.

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Comments

[breyzyyin.livejournal.com]

Truthfully, I kind of feel the same way sometimes. I think certain job classes seem more geared towards certain word choices than others based on how people interpret more well-known characters in them: for instance, both Soldier and Dragoon tend to be associated with "gloomy" at times because of characters like Kain, Squall, and Cloud despite how not every character in those job classes *are* "gloomy" (Zack, Fang, and Cid for instance)...and White Mages often get associated with "introverted" or "shy" because Yuna is a very familiar character to most FF fans (though not all White Mage characters are necessarily introverted or shy). Thieves do seem to be associated a lot with optimism and cheerful-ness in the voting too, and Black Mages are often associated with logical/thinking as well...though there are other job classes that could also possibly fit for those categories too that sometimes are overlooked in terms of voting due to character association and the like. I'm not entirely sure how to change that though, because I do feel like the word choices are helpful at times too...but I do agree with your assessment that it can sometimes gear voters in directions that maybe they wouldn't have perhaps thought of beforehand.

(That's also my main issue with some of the FF questions too in the sorting, truthfully. Sometimes if you mention why you like a certain character in the survey part or why you possible relate to them...it seems like it possibly skews voting towards a job class that character might be associated with at well. Again, the questions can be helpful and they are more optional in a lot of ways...so I don't know how to "correct" that either. 0_0;)

[arivess.livejournal.com]

Yeah. This is one of my main problems with it too, but I'm really not sure how to change it, especially since I personally don't do stamping that often. Will bring it up with Vanja and stuff and see?

[breyzyyin.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much for commenting back! :D ♥

I have to agree with what others have said below this now too, and I'm glad it's something that others have noticed. It's an issue at times, but IT IS something that is based more on preconceptions and there really isn't anything that can be done to change that unfortunately. In rating comms in general, sometimes I've noticed that there are certain "buzz words" that just automatically make people lean more towards a certain character...and that's an issue in rating comms that isn't something that's really possible to change either. I kind of think that might be the same situation here: it's noticeable, but not really plausible to change (elaboration on description can help as Mysti said, but sometimes if a description is short it does really depend on a voter's view/interpretation of a word in question). I just kind of wanted to mention that I've seen the same thing sometimes when it was mentioned before I got to the poll. XD

[arivess.livejournal.com]

*nods* I want to see if we can change the words themselves, especially for the dichotomies. Not sure, but we can try and see if that might help...