Quote Originally Posted by User201109011315 View Post
Most games are going toward more active combat system. Polls suggest 60% of MMO players want a more active combat system, and perhaps the nature of MMO combat is one reason most gamers aren't MMO players. So it is strange to see SE revert back to the antiquated FFXI modality rather than try and fulfill their vision.
Polls also suggest that a staggering and ever-increasing segment of the US population eats mainly fast food. That doesn't validate the decision. Numbers also can be invoked to demonstrate that a huge proportion of MMO players prefer games that are far lamer than what you would allow yourself to play.

That's one of the problems implicit with democracy, which G B Shaw defined as something that "substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." We take democracy as a form of government because, frankly, all the alternatives are worse. But this is not the case in game design.

Let the designers, and not the incompetent many, do the job. I, for one, will disagree with the minimum common denominator in the polls and state loudly that I do NOT want a hybrid between action games and MMOs in the combat system (at least not in this game,) thank you very much.

A forum like this should be driven by arguments and reasons, not by invoking the preferences of millions. But it's difficult, because we, the people, tend to think that "election by the incompetent many" actually has a marked high-thought content. It doesn't. We elected G. W. Bush once. So, I don't care if legions want something (legions once wanted slavery.) I'd much rather you show me your reasoning.

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