Quote Originally Posted by Delily View Post
You are all missing the point. The forums are filled with good ideas. They are a dime a dozen, yet no one bothers to give evidence the idea will improve the experience or attract new customers. Why should SE implement your idea if it has no impact on growth or retention rate?
If this was your point, you should've made it instead of harping about financials and which MMO company was more successful.

I'll answer your question with a question: How do you, and SE, know that a suggestion offered here won't improve the experience or attract new customers if they don't try?

Here:

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Six different colors of the same carrot. You speak of impact on growth, and retention rates.....how long do you expect people to chase the same carrot, in the same way, just with a new name/color? How do you expect SE to retain customers under the current "same old, same old" unless they actually try something new.

The people making suggestions, TRUE suggestions to improve the game and not just complainers(yes, they are not the same thing) are people who LOVE this game and want it to last.

Smashing your face against the same wall stops being fun pretty damned quickly. Chasing the same carrot forever, without SE even trying to make it seem different, is going to kill the game a hell of a lot sooner then you, or apparently they, realize.

The amount of people being tired of the same shit, and coming to the forums to criticize that fact, has increased since the expansion. That is not a good sign

I want this game to succeed. I want to play it for the next decade, like I played XI for a decade. I won't if SE keeps giving me the same damn carrot every 3-6 months. I am not the only one.