Same. I’m not gonna waste my time playing stale LoD when Project Diablo 2 mod is available and superior in every way. Been playing PD2 for last couple of seasons now.
I have not taken part in any surveys on 3rd party websites, I have not been sent an official blizzard survey.
This is true for absolutely everyone I know, and while I don’t claim to be famous… I do feel like if “The Majority” felt one way or the other… I feel like maybe 1 of us would have received or taken part in a survey - but that is not the case.
So when you claim “surveys exist, and the numbers look good”… maybe consider the community that is attracted to these surveys asking for wild changes might be biased.
And those of us who want the game to be a faithful remaster are just holding onto our wallets with hope blizzard doesn’t listen to the screaming minority and something good comes out of this.
Example
Survey 1 asks: Do you favor the addition of a shared stash and gives three answer choices: Yes, No, or I do not care.
Survey 1 has 100 respondents. 75% vote yes, 15% vote no, 10% say they do not care.
Survey 2 asks the same question with the same response choices. Their results is 72% yes, 16% no, and 1% say they do not care.
This poll was 500 respondents.
These polls do not yield identical results. These results are qualitative similar. In addition we can determine statistitcally if there are statistically different or not. I will leave that calculation out for now, but you can do it using any one of a multitude of online statistical calculators for comparing two population proportions.
Your 1 anecdotal evidence means nothing. My brother refuses to play D2 for D2R unless they make big changes like what happened in PD2 or PoD - so just as you have your personal experience, I have mine.
I have taken part in surveys and many on this forum have too either the community ones and/or Blizzard D2R surveys.
I don’t understand because it makes no sense at all, a question cannot be interrogated, your comment was word salad, here it is again:
This doesn’t make sense, that is why nobody understands it, a question cannot be interrogated.
And then, a lot of players didn’t knew about this “Survey” I didn’t know about It before after someone posted the Surveys on this forum.
Let me rephrase. A question was used to interrogate player’s views. Does that make sense now?
I know that I speak American English and I think you said you are from the UK. I did not anticipate a language barrier.
Yes, now I understand
Oh, no did you not hear about the online polls? MicroRNA has all the evidence he needs despite the fact that mathematically his online polls are garbage. He’ll be enjoying shared loot soon enough though, despite his wishes.
I have 8 brothers… not 1.
I have over 35 friends in a discord server who play D2.
Of them 100% have not taken part in unofficial surveys, and surprisingly none of them have been sent that official survey.
My sample size is small, but my point remains… so is yours and you need to consider the bias of your sample…
The fact that the “majority” of the poll wants your claim could easily be chalked down to the fact that the audience it attracts are people QQ"ing for change.
You claiming it as fact is no more accurate than my group of 40 ish people who 100% of them not only disagree but are a silent community
I think an in-game poll of active players maybe 2 months into the game is probably a better idea. Let’s not rely too heavily on the Blizzard surveys that were worded terribly.
I’ve made this point til the cows came home, ate dinner, slept, woke and went back out to a field only accessible via red portals.
I also pointed out that “community” feedback is usually an upset minority seeking to change things the majority would rather not. But since the majority are too busy enjoying the game, the feedback is skewed.
That would be a good idea Geezer, though I would build on that by saying maybe at the end of the first ladder season, then we would all know what the actual player base wants moving forward.
You have over 35 friends in discord who play D2, you have 8 brothers, and I forgot you were the son of a prince of Nigeria and you know a lot of people. These “QQ polls” were not just taken once, but multiple times across different platforms. People want change after repeating the same thing for 20 years. Shocking I know. It’s almost like they don’t have purist zombie brains.
Are your D2 accounts linked to modern battlenet?
Also, someone else did the calculation in another thread and I double checked it. I think Blizzard needed about 500 responses to have appropriate statistical power. If they have 1,000,000 players that they can ask and only send the survey to 5,000 (or 0.5%) that there is a 77.8% (=0.995^50) chance that among 50 player not a single one received the survey.
Again, this is study design, basic probability theory, and statistics.
I’ll bet there are a lot of things you’d like to see, like sense and logic in your own comments. Sadly, analytical perspective is best left developing in individuals that don’t make such asinine comments.
LOL “too busy enjoying the game to vote.” Good one man. They are so busy playing for 5 hours a day that they can’t spare 50 seconds to vote on a poll that will dictate their next coming years. Riggggggght.
Feedback from upset minority that wants to change things? All I see are angry purists demanding Blizzard keep everything the same and throwing a temper tantrum anyone even proposes a unique idea to help improve the game. Including you.
We are going to build you a safe area where no bullies can come hurt you. I promise. Shhh - it’s okay now.
having done both the blizzard surveys. I dont think they were worded poorly myself.
I also did the alpha feedback submission. All three things imo, had a rather large array of questions and many had short answer options so you werent limited in your reply.
second survey, did have that like scale of 5 for a bunch of questions tho.
Nope, Canadian… grew up in a small town with parents who just liked having a lot of kids I guess.
On topic: Seeing as how you believe unequivocally in the accuracy of 3rd party polls, or partial blizzard surveys sent to a target group and not the majority. I don’t see any point in trying to convince you further. I’ll just keep my fingers crossed and hope when it comes out and these things aren’t included your future endeavors will contain less tinfoil. But not holding my breath