Rod Fergusson Approves of Popular Change Requests

Which is actually something the Blizzard survey (first one) did, ask how long players played.

Blizzard has their own data to cross reference public surveys with. I was a skeptic at one point in time too, thought they were sending mixed signals. But all signs point to more being done post launch.

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So is this the same poll that has been spread around reddit? or different one, did all 8k ppl answer those questions or not?

Shortly after the reddit survey launched, Blizzard sent their own random survey to emails. That picture is of the first. Then, after Tech Alpha, they sent out another survey. You ought to venture out of jsp more often. These were discussed widely between here and Reddit. I believe streamers even made mention of them.

Tech Alpha Survey pics

Original survey pics

Both Blizzard surveys and a separate survey conducted by Mr. Llama had a question asking about hours. In the Mr. Llama one almost 88% self reported as having more than 500 hours, and 50% self reported having 3000 or more.

Although not indicative of the survey from which this data was accrued, it was shared on many of the same platforms and communities so it stands to reason that the results would be somewhat similar.

Ah, so its different from the reddit polls. So as far as im concerned, they are null and only speak on the behalf loud minority(reddit polls). I dont know a single person out of minimum 5 people+myself that has taken part in reddit poll for example, despite having thousands or tens of thousand hours on diablo franchise.

And mr.llamas poll had very contradictory results compared to reddit poll. What a surprise.

Llama’s questions were also a lot different. However, a majority of Llama’s poll takers being in favor of changes, and being in favor of the ladder ungating, does reflect the overall reddit poll in that more people want changes than those that don’t.

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post launch. Ppl over here and in reddit asking for all kind of ridiculous stuff to be added right now. Also on Llamas poll on the question would you recommend the game to other person the answer was overwhelming yes, if that is so why do we need the changes, people seem happy with the game as it currently is (apart from reddit poll). Kind of proves my point doesnt it.

The only question I think that was the same, was ladder length difference. Most of his stuff dealt with graphical critiques. And opinions change over time as people are introduced to new povs. I actually voted against Charm Inventory in the Reddit poll. If I were to take it again today, I’d vote yes, only for charms no other inventory items.

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You can recommend something and still want changes. You can like something, but still desire for it to be better.

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You are right. For similar questions the two polls are qualitatively similar. MrllamaSC poll was largely related to graphical stuff, while the other poll was much more broad about different elements of D2R game design.

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Because people that know more about this game than “OOOH unique/set” kmow that gray, white, blue, and yellow items are important too :wink: I hope the morons do filter out everything but uniques and sets.

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Thats when you vote like a 5 in scale 1-10 not 8-10, and when you want to make 5 different coregame breaking changes, you vote 1-3. Also id like to point out the result would been even more resounding yes if it wasnt conducted while the gpu cooking and bunch of bugs were present and that go fixed later.

It is not because you consciously decide to denigrate a community platform that it does not exist and does not have the right to speak.
And currently it is on this forum that we are a minority, there are very few active members unlike other platforms, so I do not understand how you can say that.

Notice how none of them is mutual handshake pvp or personal loot. Interesting.

There was no question about PvP. For the adding optional personal loot question when the poll had its first ~4000 votes only 39% wanted D2R to keep FFA only loot.

Diablo II: Resurrected - Change Or No Change Survey: The RESULTS! : Diablo (reddit.com)

You can bet if pker’s grief kill enough newbs at launch they will removing dual entirely until they can add in a handshake protocol. Its going to be funny watching the 10 people that care about PvP blowing up the forum after that happens.

So lets say there is 1 million copies of d2r sold, and then there is this poll conducted on d2r reddit that has 8k votes. Dont you think the ppl who vote are mainly gonna be redditors and not a completely randomly chosen 8k people out of those 1 million ppl to give the poll the best possible representation of the playerbase?

If they are going to poll something, while this is a nice start, they should have a mandatory poll about this filled out by everybody that starts up the game the first time.

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And what ? They are players like you and me . we also express ourselves here, don’t we? This is why a forum