Should SE implement a way to poll the playerbase?

[cjbeagle]

As low as possible, is the answer.

As few arbitrary gates as needed, and then let the players let themselves out through their answers as needed.

So basically what HyoMinPark offered before:

Questions that have a 1-to-5 rating scale can be qualified a bit more with questions on experience levels.

“Do you play SAM in FFXIV?”
1. Yes
2. No

And then further questions like “How often do you play SAM” on a scale of Very infrequently/Never to Very frequently/All the time; and “what types of content do you play SAM in? Check all that apply.” So the qualifications can exist with more specific questions; data can then be filtered based on answers to the above.

Perfect, works for me!

I could be wrong, but I think polling could be a valuable tool if used for simple litmus tests.

It's easy to assume that the vast majority of samurai players hate the 6.1 changes based on the ratios in the forums, but it'd be a lot more powerful if they could actually poll the playerbase and see if that sentiment holds up at scale, and if it does, perhaps they'd take the forum outrage more seriously.