Forums =/= 99% of the player base. Forums more realistically represent less than 1% of the player base and have pretty well established biases.
Forums are also historically very adverse to change and us trying new promotions like this. The response today was anticipated and factored into our decision making process
^- There it is.
I’ve said this in previous threads (months ago at this point), but it bears repeating: just because a minority of players ever even look at the forums, doesn’t mean they’re not valuable in their own way, at least as a representation of a certain kind of player’s experience
I understand that folks don’t like hearing that a negative reaction from the forums was anticipated, and probably don’t like it more when they here us essentially say that we considered it an acceptable risk
Support a Stream…
^- There he goes trying to mitigate damage but basically say that the negative response on the forums was expected and yeah, basically make it worse once you read into it a bit.
