Quote Originally Posted by Peregrine View Post
We could have told them they shouldn't release it.
So? Are you running the company? Are you an investor? You can't tell a company, especially a C.E.O/President/Etc what to do or not to do and even investors barely can these days. If Wada wanted the game out before WoW's cataclysm and to have something on their record for the rest of 2010 and early 2011 (remember their upcoming lineup for the rest of 2010 and early 2011, almost nothing), it's his decision alone. Good or bad decision aside, nothing could have fully prevented it.

clear and efficient are the key words
Player Polls fell into this and they already explained why they didn't take all of the feedback from the beta period ("We were too focused on debugging even after the launch of the game in september.") so now it's clear they're looking even closer than before for feedback. Weekly polls however isn't efficient because sooner or later the community can abuse this to get something changed that didn't need changing just because they'll know the company would be listening.