Quote Originally Posted by Sonic_the_Hedgehog View Post
So in other words, they shouldn't listen to you?
He has a point there.

The easiest way to use forums to see what people like is to only pay attention to the people in it that aren't screaming, shouting and yelling or insult others for having differences of opinion. No one wants a game that was developed to satisfy forum ragers.

Pay attention to the insightfull ones that simply go "I like this because..." or "Wouldn't it be great if we could...", then see how many people all agree with that opinion (whilst ignoring the troll and flamer posts), then you get a rough idea of what parts of your game some players like. This gives you fuel to work towards adding more of that kind of stuff.

The only other possible way of getting some idea of what new content to add is to get GM's to send /tell to every single player in the game asking "What would you like to see in this game?", but then that'd take forever, a lot of people wouldn't bother answering, and you'd end up with an enormous list of 'wants' that has no centralised options to choose from for adding new content.