User blog comment:Edin the White Mage/Counterattack No Longer Compulsory/@comment-10483040-20160605051524/@comment-26290163-20160605061503

Yes, indeed they have. I can check with my personal contact that has run things through with the Japanese Dev Department when unsure, but parts of the email were left out that asked for specificity showing the first ruling that said the reminder text was making it mandatory back in Feb of 2014.

I've been in constant contact with them for well over a year now and can say that their answers have gotten not only clearer, but more timely as well. The email included the fact that previously a player had been told that it, in fact, was compulsory, but that Edin had received a different response. Whenever I've contacted Bushiroad and held them on a ledge showing an inconsistency in answers, they've come through with the correct one.

Part of the email that was removed to shorten it, specifically mentioned a time table of when the first person had received that ruling. As you can see in the inconsistency of Monsters never having the Reminder Text that the spells did, as far back a the game's beginning, the email also asked if the "Reminder Text" had ever even been a ruling or a form of advice. This is why they answered the way they did in response 2.

When my contact checked with the Japanese Dev department when I brought up something that also had to do with the wording of text on cards changing, they told me that the Dev team was beginning to word things differently for better clarity, etc... As you can also see in the recent errata's of Hades Fall, Dragon Seal and The Ark, this would seem to fall in line with that. Also, Edin's email has been traced as I do with my account and Bushiroad opened it 21 Times before answering. And, as has been the case before with many other emails, they have opened it 3 times since, which seems to be how they function when something contested arises.

In tracking emails, I've seen them opened first in a state in the US, then in Singapore on a mobile device, back to other states, etc... I can certainly ask my contact about this, but that may take a bit, as on a whim, after receiving an enormous amount of information that hasn't been published yet, and a million back and forth discussions in which they took the time to look over my understanding of materials until we were certain to be on the same page, I said I'd give them a respite until I published the first Animated Tutorial. They are interested in the project, following it and giving whatever support they can. Alas, I wish I hadn't acted so rashly, but the last email they'd sent had taken a few weeks of work to get me the final answer and I felt grateful.

I may contact them anyway, if others receive different answers as they wouldn't mind. It was a limit I placed on myself. Besides, I've never gone this long without contacting them. I apologize for all the "they" language but as they have been kind enough to be on a first name basis with me, I want to respect their privacy.