The Developers Need to Start Surveying Players After Every Patch

[therpgfanatic]

but they do listen to the players, they do in fact read the forums! so many things in this patch and many previous were additions because they listen to the player base, like adding previous event items like the lightning event ones to the mogstation, or the requests for a jukebox like housing machine and now here we have the orchestrion!

The vast majority of players do not post in game forums; only specific types of personalities use internet forums, and many people avoid forums because of the toxic environment player communities have become (See the example of the first post response to this thread is someone trolling), or people who want to argue about my opinion on tanking versus the actual issue that SE doesn't survey its customers about the changes it makes.

Also most players don't care about jukeboxes in guild halls when the majority of FC can't get a house because the servers are full of people who camp property to resell it. I could really care less about the special snowflake content like that, and its addition makes no impact whatsoever on my decision to be a customer.

My first job in the game industry was to read the player suggestion forum for the game, and I learned quite quickly that while the non-critical game mechanic features are nice additions, they are not the issues players are most concerned about.

The majority of players are most concerned about the core game features (i.e. PvE and PvP design), and less concerned with whether they can have a jukebox in their guild hall instead of just listening to the music they want on their computer. It's not a bad feature, but it's not core to gameplay; it simply does not consume a substantial amount of player time. So trying to use jukeboxes as an example is quite bad.