Quote Originally Posted by Lienn View Post
I see no benefit at all in having this forum...it would be extremely productive if we had a large amount od population taking part of it...but right now we have just a few users, most of them from same "group" of players and that aren't even close to reflect the real opinion of the playerbase.

That's why i always though both polls and forums should never been taken seriously...while they can be good for suggestions and feedback, its not even close to be a decent enough sample of population to base decisions on...and this is why the PS3 release potentially might fail...because they used that poll to base all the changes regardless of population sample size.
i agree with you in part.

the forums are more of a divisive form of communication than anything else. if someone posts any opinion it becomes a flame fest regardless of the topic. if it's a complaint it's "QQ MOAR" and if its positive it's "shut up whiteknight". the forums are good for getting information from the reps and hearing what yoshi himself has to say, but i see no other positive coming out of it.

there's a very small minority of even the few k players that actually play the game that will even visit the forums. i've heard repeatedly in game people talking about they have an issue and when suggested to bring it to the forums they say they don't feel like getting personally attacked.

the part is disagree with is about the polls.

the polls are a very good representation of the players. they can at least figure out from the polls what the people that actually play the game like and dislike and what they want to see make it into the game to make it better. granted, it's not going to be 100% correct in what the mmo genre in general wants, but it does give alot more insight into what the players want.

in other words i will use auto attack for an example. i hate auto attack and i see many people that did do battle that have either stopped playing or have decided to do only dol/doh classes. if they had a poll and asked would people rather have seen auto attack or them to made changes to the system in place to make it more strategic and fluid i could have actually looked at the poll results and and seen if i was in the majority or minority.

i am more willing to accept something if i see the majority feels one way. i can look at the poll results and say " i may not agree with it, but since the majority wants it then it's probably better for the future of the game"

so, yes, i do agree for the most part that the forums are counterproductive they do have some good points, but i completely disagree about player polls. i believe if we had more polls with more direct questions on the direction to take the game we would have had alot less threads complaining when parts of the game people liked were removed or changed if the majority was for the change.