Breaking the Majority’s Silence: A Job Criticism Thread

[Calysto]

I didn't read the whole thread, but I want to say that communication and good faith from Y-P are needed for that to be possible.

Communication on the feedback they got and consulting the whole community instead of just listening to a few voices would have been possible. Instead they made these change without players ever knowing, dropped them with an expansion and told us it was too late to change anything.

The "Vocal minority" increased manifold since ShB design changes. some pro-changes, most against it.
These voices were lost into the void and not acknowledged for years, only to be dismissed without any compromise.

Now lately Y-P stated that they had requests to make theses changes, and that WE players must reach a consensus.
That seems like a cheap excuse for poor choices and avoiding fixing the issue. The game has a "huge" player-base, getting everyone to agree is impossible, and worse, the "silent majority argument" get misused to dismiss any change...

[Musashidon]

Now lately Y-P stated that they had requests to make theses changes, and that WE players must reach a consensus.

that's not what he is saying he was trying to prove a point and point being any changes will roughly a equal amount of like and dislike so constantly switching between this or that does nothing but change who is happy and who is mad making the changes in general rather pointless.

the biggest question always is, is this actually a issue for the playerbase or is it a problem for you?

players should always leave feedback cause it will show if just a small amount think something is wrong or a larger amount of the playerbase.

[Mayhemmer]

Communication on the feedback they got and consulting the whole community instead of just listening to a few voices would have been possible. Instead they made these change without players ever knowing, dropped them with an expansion and told us it was too late to change anything.

Not to doom-post, but this got to me during the NA and EU fanfests. Just the typical fanfests with zero mention of any kind of shakeups or change to fundamentals I'd expect to see in a game going on it's fifth expansion... I don't like it. I'm worried it's going to just be the status quo again. Afraid of seeing zero iteration by the end of launch content. Before somebody copy/pastes the "maybe you're just over the game" thing, I love this game. I want MORE of this game, but I'm afraid that going into Dawntrail is going to be a repeat of ShB going into EW...