The Forum Community - in your opinion.

[SherlottaEryut]

It's not so much that people lack an opinion, but that they won't go to the effort of posting it. I think that needs to be factored in when you're attempting to gauge player feedback/desires, as it means you will need to employ methods such as polls/surveys to truly have a chance of getting a reflective view on something. There is also a lot of gatekeeping in some venues, which again means the feedback they're getting is not always reflective of the wider playerbase. That is easier to control on your own forum, but you have to make a concerted effort in that case.

I have previously presented an idea to the forums, with both a visual concept and I went into explicit detail as to why it should be implemented. I also attempted to counteract the type of people who say 'everyone should have it' by being overly descriptive in my OG post, but they're impossible to avoid. So, my personal experience still stands that people on the forums lack opinion and just conform to either rejecting ideas or merely saying 'what about everyone' because it just seems to be a norm.

[Lauront]

I have previously presented an idea to the forums, with both a visual concept and I went into explicit detail as to why it should be implemented. I also attempted to counteract the type of people who say 'everyone should have it' by being overly descriptive in my OG post, but they're impossible to avoid. So, my personal experience still stands that people on the forums lack opinion and just conform to either rejecting ideas or merely saying 'what about everyone' because it just seems to be a norm.

I see what you're getting at. At the moment, they don't really do much to moderate the forum or encourage productive discussion here, so I don't doubt that what you say is true (it's even worse on sites like Reddit with its easily abused downvote function.) I just think that, on top of that, they're getting a very blinkered type of feedback from various social media sites (forum included), rather than anything that reflects their wider playerbase's views.