If it hits reddit /wow top page, then a lot of people want it.
Statistics exist for that purpose, and I’m fairly sure they use those. When you take a sample of forum people and you find out many of them have an idea of what they want, it’s possible to extrapolate, with some margin of error of course, those numbers to the total population.
Also, if it’s optional, everyone is happy. Who wants it uses it, who doesn’t want it, does not use it.
The problem is probably not that they think people don’t want it. The problem is that making players happy is a lower priority than squeezing money out of them with basically every system possible. And we know how well this has been working for them for the past several years…
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I really think people have a problem with the word “optional”. If you’re not familiar with this word, I can only advise you to look it up in a dictionary.
For years, players have been taking turns on the same request, since 2010 this desire exists, since the first appearance of worgens people ask to have optional tails. People have been asking for this feature for almost 14 years now, as well as the possibility of automatically reverting to human form after a fight. Worgen have waited a long time for this option… Blizzard had to create a new race with this addition to finally get it, and yet it doesn’t even offer a bonus for worgens compared to dracthyr.
I don’t understand the refusal to have more customization options, to be against adding optional options in order to let players customize their characters according to their desires, isn’t that the very idea of an mmo? To be able to embody the character we want in a multiplayer world. Why should some people have the right to have their wishes fulfilled and others not? Why can’t a 14-year-old request, renewed for 7 expansions and soon 8, finally see the light of day? Do we really have to wait until World of Warcraft is truly dead before Blizzard agrees to add this option?
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That’s assuming that a high percentage of WoW users enter notes in reddit. I know I never ented a note on reddit and the only time I even read those notes is when they show up in a search.
So the question is, what percentage of WoW players enter notes about a WoW issue on forums, this one, reddit or other? Until it’s shown to be a significant number and until it’s shown to be a significant percentage of those people supporting a particular idea, it’s just a guess.
Even then there is the question of bias for people who enter notes as opposed to people who don’t which is the main reason big polling agencies never use internet forums to gather information.
I agree they have ways of using statistics and I believe that when you see a big discrepency between what the forum echo chambers are calling for and what happens it is because the statistics show that the echo chamber does not represent “the players” as they claim they do.
As for making money, I’m not sure if you are aware of this but Blizzard is not the only “for profit” business on the planet that is trying to “squeeze money out of customers”, as much as they can.
In fact you can easily tell which companies are focused on the bottom line and which ones are not. The ones who are not go out of business.