I know they send out emails to random people to poll the player base, I guess to keep the poll results internal. Old School Runescape lets the players vote on changes before they are made, and it is clear to everyone (because results are posted for all to see) what the majority of the player base wants. Also worth noting, Old School Runescape limits poll participation to players who have a certain amount of progress achieved…so maybe poll accounts with a max level (non-boosted) character only. Something like that.
When the Devs get on interviews and state “we hear from the players” or “this doesn’t match what our players want in the community” it is is really hard to see where they are coming from no matter if we agree or not. Just seems like obfuscation.
If this is not solution, then something else to provide transparency. Some of these “players want this” statements that the Devs make almost seem like they found an edge case on the forums and assume that’s what the player base wants.
Wut…? Voting was the best way jagex could’ve handled updates to OSRS. Every voting point had a link to a post where they explain what the update is for. Not knowing is pure ignorance, and you can choose to skip voting on a particular voting point if you want.
Having a poll system to let the players vote in-game is the most logical way to gauge player feedback. The only problem is, Blizzard doesn’t care what the players want.
Idk how voting ruined osrs, I still play it and it made the game thrive. The players actually kept the updates pretty fair, anything stupid OP always failed the voting process. I agree with OP, I really think Jagex is a pioneer in the new age of gaming for using their style of game development compared to all the super companies that are ten times larger that focus on micro transactions and ignoring most of their customers. Also, I don’t believe for a second they polled people, no one has provided a single screenshot and I have never been polled by blizzard while playing on and off for over ten years of my life.
Player polls need to be restricted to major implementations on the game. Otherwise there will be petty voting and stagnation which does no service for the player or the game. For OSRS the voting is good as a way to prevent the devs from implementation MTX and EOC type systems, but the voting also prevents meaningful changes for many systems like PVP. Now I think some sort of polling system absolutely would have been a good thing for the stupid changes made for arena in TBC, but in reality the majority plays pve and people like to be spiteful. Then for stagnation there would never be a strong majority vote on anything since the wow player base is so divided on almost every single topic. Look at OSRS, the fear of power creep that came with summoning and dungeoneering has resulted in 0 skills added in 10 years. Same thing will happen here because players will blame x, y or z for causing retail.
so blizz should copy jagex and repoll things like “should we add a wow token” over and over again until it passes? btw I don’t remember polling the osrs bond
The bond is cheesy i’ll give ya that, but many players get bored of it and don’t even buy it after a while. Items inflated in value to the point where getting full BIS gear would cost u over 500 bucks in tokens. And with Ironman mode, which half the player base uses you can’t even buy tokens or trade with other players so gold does not matter. Most of OSRS, like WoW classic is comprised of players that played it many years ago and are now adults with jobs, and many of them could easily buy the best gear but it’s just boring to do so they don’t.
While that is a good idea… you need to understand that if you want dualspec or this and that banned that blizzard does not want it therefore a poll for that matter will never exist. The decision of no rdf is from the company not the playerbase.
