Quote Originally Posted by Potyhoty View Post
No, my argument is that it's wrong for us to ASSUME we know what the player base is thinking, and especially wrong for us to RAGE expecting SE to have the same little myopic picture that the forums provide.
Being as they have only asked for a poll one time so far on anything content related, and they ignored the winning tally, I would say that they feel like they learn all they need to know about the way the players feel through the forum, and they don't care very much. As far as the usefulness of raging... I would rather people rage on here for change, in hopes of somehow convincing the devs to do things right, rather than have them silently speak with their wallets. Everyone likes to act tough and tell the angry players "good! Quit then! we don't need you anyways!" but the reality is that the fewer players there are, the smaller the budget gets. Eventually that leads to a game getting warrior nerfs at 99 instead of new expansions that warrior / white Mage can't duo.


The only honest arguments I could see against People venting on forums are :

A) What if we piss the devs off, and they just plain crap on us.
B) I just like to pick other peoples posts apart, knowing fully that I will never change their opinion.

A. is a pretty legitimate argument. What's telling is that no one has taken it seriously yet, because I think in all honesty, even the people who try to defend the devs know that the devs don't really care what we are talking about on here much.