The only players the developers should listen to are the developers who play the game and focus testing groups.
What players want and what players think they want are two different things. Reading what people want here, and then reading what games they actually play is a very good example of that.
No. Polls would not help as being online they could easily be manipulated. What you want is already happening anyhow, just not with "polls". Go onto WoW's site and get into the forums. I see post all the time concerning ideas that blues comment on. They're obvious watching the forums and listening to the players.
The fact is.. the hardcore players are not the majority.. they are the minority. I am a casual gamer, 30, married with a child and a full time job. I have told people for years now that casual gamers are the target aduience, not the hardcore. People argued with me like rabid dogs... however, look at the game now and where it's going.. it's completely catering to the casual player (me). So.. I am completely happy about the direction and what people call the "dumbing down" of the game. When I get on for the few hours a week that I can, I'm able to get 15 or so dungeons and a bunch of battlegrounds done, which is wonderful.
Forget Hardcore, all players including casual and Hardcore and middle of the road veterans alike are trapped in that mad end of game instance cycle in WOW, its truely horrible in comparison to what you could have been and what Wow once was. I suspect many who want this just do not know or appreciate the benefits of a more open ended mmorg - how can they, no one in their right mind would choose to repeat the same instance over and over and over and over for months/year on end if other options were open to them.
rpg/mmorg history: Dun Darach>Bloodwych>Bards Tale 1-3>Eye of the beholder > Might and Magic 2,3,5 > FFVII> Baldur's Gate 1, 2 > Planescape Torment >Morrowind > WOW > oblivion > LOTR > Guild Wars (1900hrs elementalist) Vanguard. > GW2(1000 elementalist), Wildstar
I don't really see any evidence that Blizzard has listened to a vocal majority, they've managed to make money hands over fist for years and years, seems like they're doing something right, even if the game is not something I or other may care to play.
Polls can help, Mythic tried it with DAOC, having an online poll you could complete, no idea how successful that was. (hopefully it isn't why the TOA expansion came out, but I think they mostly thought that one up on their own)
So I went with No on this one, there's got to be better ways to gather market data than flawed, easily manipulated polls.
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
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I voted no because the game isn't a democracy. Obviously democracy doesn't work (look at america since it's strayed from the constitutional republic if you want an example)
Thanks for keeping your chocolate out of my peanut butter....
That Guild Wars 2 login screen knocked up my wife. Must be the second coming!
Have you ever played a game that was design-by-committee?
They're terrible. Don't go there.
Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more we dwell on it, the smaller we are and the larger the problem seems to grow.
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Which is exactly what Blizzard di with the Pandaren race
or what SoE did with PoK and the instant travel, or any number of changes that people claim 'ruined eq'
The only players the developers should listen to are the developers who play the game and focus testing groups.
What players want and what players think they want are two different things. Reading what people want here, and then reading what games they actually play is a very good example of that.
Forget Hardcore, all players including casual and Hardcore and middle of the road veterans alike are trapped in that mad end of game instance cycle in WOW, its truely horrible in comparison to what you could have been and what Wow once was. I suspect many who want this just do not know or appreciate the benefits of a more open ended mmorg - how can they, no one in their right mind would choose to repeat the same instance over and over and over and over for months/year on end if other options were open to them.
rpg/mmorg history: Dun Darach>Bloodwych>Bards Tale 1-3>Eye of the beholder > Might and Magic 2,3,5 > FFVII> Baldur's Gate 1, 2 > Planescape Torment >Morrowind > WOW > oblivion > LOTR > Guild Wars (1900hrs elementalist) Vanguard. > GW2(1000 elementalist), Wildstar
Now playing GW2, AOW 3, ESO, LOTR, Elite D
I don't really see any evidence that Blizzard has listened to a vocal majority, they've managed to make money hands over fist for years and years, seems like they're doing something right, even if the game is not something I or other may care to play.
Polls can help, Mythic tried it with DAOC, having an online poll you could complete, no idea how successful that was. (hopefully it isn't why the TOA expansion came out, but I think they mostly thought that one up on their own)
So I went with No on this one, there's got to be better ways to gather market data than flawed, easily manipulated polls.
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Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™
"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
Thanks for keeping your chocolate out of my peanut butter....
That Guild Wars 2 login screen knocked up my wife. Must be the second coming!
With or without poll, Blizzard will do whatever they want regardless.
Ready for GW2!!!
Have you ever played a game that was design-by-committee?
They're terrible. Don't go there.
Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more we dwell on it, the smaller we are and the larger the problem seems to grow.