I really wish Yoshi-P would Poll the Player Base Again... please SE?

Yes, I miss the old Yoshida, the one who'd care about what the playerbase thinks and how we feel about their plans. I've felt a detachment growing more and more constant as time after launch passed, with so many things that the community had a voice on but where basically ignored (housing comes to mind). I'd really like to feel like my opinin is being taken into account again, just like back in the 1.0 days.

No, please no.

Forum communities are the WORST place to go for creative influence. Especially gaming communities.

Remember the life threatening debacle that was the cash shop threads?

No thank you, don't need none of that again.

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Originally Posted by Bluevann

Yes, I miss the old Yoshida, the one who'd care about what the playerbase thinks and how we feel about their plans. I've felt a detachment growing more and more constant as time after launch passed, with so many things that the community had a voice on but where basically ignored (housing comes to mind). I'd really like to feel like my opinin is being taken into account again, just like back in the 1.0 days.

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I think they were loco to even ask us in the first place, while some players have good input a great deal of them throw out wacky idea with no consideration to the overall balance and flow of the game and rarely take into account ensuring that new players are not left out in the cold as far as progressing towards endgame content.

Would be interesting if they could combine it with the other collected data to group players of like minds together and how they feel about the game, then work the data from that stand point.

Using the launcher would probably be the easiest means to encourage and notify people of a poll, after logging in before it goes to the client - to keep work to a minimum, a cute reward would probably be good and unfortunately you might need to consider a reward structure if polling frequently or on small questions like some big companies have started ("how did you like this quest, rate x,y,z additional comments?"). Data is interesting though, even if you dont respond exactly to it for whatever reasons.

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Originally Posted by Stihllodeing

No, please no.

Forum communities are the WORST place to go for creative influence. Especially gaming communities.

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The polls weren't on the forums. They were prompted on the client upon launching the game. The forum community is just a minority of the playerbase, so they put the polls in the client to reach for every player.