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

[Turtledeluxe]

The fact is, a lot of people found the mount tilt fun. Which is basically the point of gaming. Hell I'd been hoping they'd add it for years. Since it's causing a few player motion sickness, and not seizures or something like that, the solution should have just been to have it be an opt-in thing, not to nerf it into oblivion to the point where it's not even noticeable, especially when you can turn it off.



And now that we have the nerfed version too, they could easily add it back as an option with the nerfed version as well.


It'd be incredibly simple to do on their end too, I don't know what they were thinking with this extreme overreaction.

That is correct. But this is an issue of the team and how they respond to feedback. I tend to call it unilateral. They do it with jobs as well. They always bring the hammer down on issues that are clearly divisive.

All I'm saying is, it doesn't prove the claim here that forums are fundamentally or especially a flawed way to collect feedback. They can be flawed in a statistical sense, but so can everything else.

The post just comes across a little too anti forums imo like "throw out forums because surveys are better!". If Yoshi P only relies on surveys that has its own potential pitfalls. It's as narrow-minded as what the team did here with mounts.

I'd actually say that the forums prove this post wrong. The healer thread is exponentially longer and has more detailed feedback than the mount thread. It has significantly more likes. Yet there's been no speedy overhaul of the healer role.