The forums are flawed as the main way to collect player feedback.

[Shougun]

I have no idea how they ingest feedback given the healer or homogenization threads always doing well and obviously ignored, but all systems will have some flaw to them. Reddit's karma system strongly encourages an echo chamber. X is a cronenberg. The forums is imo probably one of the better places, though still flawed. Problematically participation is hard to gauge, 30 votes on one subject is crap and on another is incredible that many people bothered.

Polls would be good though. Especially if you took info from one place like forums and then bounced off a larger in game audience.

I'm nervous about them using streamers though, given their perspective is from a LITERAL job perspective, with streamer privileges that don't represent the normal player. They also have streamer disadvantages to be fair, but that also doesn't represent the normal player. The feedback can still be insightful, especially as they play it like a job lol, just there are interesting issues to also be considered which I hope are...

when was it ever stated they WERE the main way. from what ive seen if mr happy asks for something, it gets implemented the next patch

So I just need to make YouTube videos? That's easy, going to see you bois on the other side lol.

More seriously, any examples come to mind?