Polls for proposed in game changes - given the forums Jekyll and Hyde nature :)

[Fensfield]

True, but then there's the good old, 'Would you welcome changes to FINAL FANTASY XIV that would drastically alter the rules already set in Eorzea?' or 'Another animal-like race (IE: Viera)?'

Yes, yes, 1.0 was bad etc etc, but we've seen these polls so often had loaded questions in them or were asked with zero consideration for the situation they were presented in. The first for instance was never going to get a meaningful reply because it was asked at the height of the rage against the release mess, so the answer was inevitably .. well, then again they probably knew that though, it was almost certainly just asked to cover their backsides in the event of the rebuild somehow going horribly wrong ('Ah but you said you wanted fundamental changes!'). I know it would probably still have come out in favour of a drastic rebuild had they asked fairly but it always felt fairly clear they were trying to engineer a landslide vote to wave at potential dissenters - not least given there were only extreme yea or nay options. And the second.. I mean they seriously didn't think attaching a nostalgic race to one of the options would unbalance the new races poll?

I hate to sound crotchety but those polls really did have a bad habit of being at best ill-thought-out and at worst downright manipulative.

.. Ranting about the dev's inability to recognise when they're (or deliberately trying to) skewing the results aside though the basic idea isn't bad. It'd definitely get a more meaningful response than just asking on the forums given the limited number of players that look at them and how emotional most of those who do tend to be. The only problem is, they often don't know which features are actually going to prove controversial and benefit from a vote until time's already been invested and they've been implemented. Admittedly it's often incredible that they don't guess ('Wait, you mean you didn't want the dye system to have certain colours class locked and change gears' stats?') but..