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[FrankReynolds]

I'm assuming you have stats on that? I don't remember whether it offended me so I guess it must not have. But hey, maybe they got so much negative feedback on the poll that they decided not to do polls anymore because they apparently don't "suit the player"

It was in the beast master thread. They gave a choice of several new pets that they were thinking of adding. They had a couple that were already set in stone, and they offered the players a chance to vote for the last one. The one with the most votes was not added, and instead they put in the one that had the most Japanese votes. Some people argued that they may have done the votes by region, thereby lumping all people who speak English together as 1 vote. Regardless of how the votes were tallied (or if they counted them at all), there was an outcry, which they chose to ignore. They could have just made something up like: "after looking at that pet we decided the other one was better" or even a simple "Balance.", But they chose to leave it up to interpretation, and most people interpreted it as a middle finger.

Well, no, not if you phrase the poll that way.

That is the problem here. The devs are in fact making that decision regardless of our input. Not because people haven't debated both sides of the coin. They are free to do so. The game obviously can't be a democracy, but if they are making decisions that fly in the face of logic, then people can and will be angry and voice it. When they use language like "in order to maintain balance" they are diluting the issue. The fact of the matter is that what they are actually doing is weakening 1 thing instead of making something else better. That is the opposite of progress.

True, but if they have a bigger plan of which these are a part, then yeah, they don't want to derail it until the whole thing is done. Of course, if I'm wrong, then I'm wrong, and feel free to call me out on it. My point is that I feel it's premature to call it at this point. Obviously you don't, and that's fine, we can agree to disagree.

Yeah, I would feel more optimistic if they gave responses that suggested something good in the works, but so far, they have said things like "working as intended" when people complain about things, and "not working as intended" when people are actually excited about things.