Alienation of Dedicated and Skilled players

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A straw poll can gauge sentiment among a particular group of people at a particular point in time. If it is an internet-related straw poll, the results are only as good as the total number of people with opposing opinions who actually encounter it at the time. The comment quoted is equivalent to saying "We held a vote while you weren't around. Too bad for you."

A recent 'straw poll' result that was meaningless: Michelle Bachman and Ron Paul were the top 'winners' in the 2011 Iowa Presidential straw poll.

It's representative as a sample of Forum opinions. It shows that its very likely that the general forum opinion is such that at least more than 50% of the active players on the forum want a change. Right now the poll shows 3/4 players want change. I am giving you a +/-25% margin to work with there, waaaaaay generous. It's pretty obvious the majority of active forum users are tired of the stale formula and anyone who wants to keep the current state of things for years to come is the minority opinion.

As we all know here on these forums from how raiders are treated, minorities and their opinions don't matter. Suck it up, the majority of players on these forums, a place where SE gathers player feedback, want a more complex gear system than we have now.

Really at this point, it's just time to /popcorn as we watch what was once an active player base of 1M subscribers drop to 900k, 800k, 700k, 600k, etc. As this game careen's down the pipes, I can at least take satisfaction in watching bad decision after bad decision unfold doing more and more damage to this game.

Yeah, lets change nothing, lets see how many players we have a year out from now. LOLOLOL there is going to be like 3 people playing this game.