Quote Originally Posted by QooEr View Post
nothing short of a survey will do. enjoyment is qualitative, and the other measures are quantitative and theyre also affected by other variables.
True, but the real question is, "Does the enjoyment of people actually matter?" I mean, yes, it should matter, it's a video game. But it's fairly easy as a company to get stuck in the same mindset that Blizzard did with WoW.

If they made a change to healers, and more people play healers, those people stick around in the game longer than average. It would be really easy to say that the change was a success. Enjoyment is a really difficult metric to figure out because people don't answer surveys the same. You and I could both enjoy healing the same "amount" and I might give it a 5 because I realize that's "average" and you might give it a 7 because we as a society largely see:

<6 - Trash
7 - Below Average
8 - Average
9 - Above Average
10 - Excellent