Dear Yoshi P: What is your vision?

[Sonic_the_Hedgehog]

thats not the point. the point is certain players will not touch the forums and those players are "different" and like "different" things than the people on the forums due (obviously since they arent inclined to use the forums). By listening to people on the forums only , you only get the opinions of a biased group of people (forum users) while you miss out on the opinions of all others.

the big players poll was done right in january. That was a fairly statistically proper survey.

But what about the people that don't about the lodestone? We're missing out on those people!!!!

[Azurymber]

But what about the people that don't about the lodestone? We're missing out on those people!!!!

thats why i said they couldn't run a perfect poll, because there are also people who stopped playing the game but might come back in the future.

But for people that don't use lodestone, you post a in-game message about it at login, and offer 20,000 gil or a special item if people complete the poll (ex. you use an inventive to maximize the diversity of your sample population). It may even be wiser to offer a choice of prizes to further maximize the differentiation in those polled. Theres lots of techniques that can be used.

[Sonic_the_Hedgehog]

thats why i said they couldn't run a perfect poll, because there are also people who stopped playing the game but might come back in the future.

But for people that don't use lodestone, you post a in-game message about it at login, and offer 20,000 gil or a special item if people complete the poll (ex. you use an inventive to maximize the diversity of your sample population). It may even be wiser to offer a choice of prizes to further maximize the differentiation in those polled. Theres lots of techniques that can be used.

So in other words we need a better launcher? I agree, that why I made a topic in the Other forums. You should post your idea there.

[Azurymber]

So in other words we need a better launcher? I agree, that why I made a topic in the Other forums. You should post your idea there.

ive posted ideas about polls and such and got the generic "we are working on it and adding it in the future" response. And that was months ago. Adding it in after the game is drastically changed defeats the purpose. So i'm under the impression these forums are just to make people think devs care and to report bugs, or that the team is just kinda unorganized