What I’m saying is that it isn’t the job of players to care how big the ask is. It is the job of developers to look at the feedback, and ask the following questions:
- Do enough people want this that we should consider it?
- Is it technically feasible, or could we make it technically feasible with the software engineering resources we have available?
- Is it good game design, i.e. is this something we should try to do?
- Can we do it in such a way that it doesn’t negatively impact the game as a whole?
- Would doing this require us to shift significant resources away from other areas of development?
I’ll give you an example.
I asked for Lone Wolf on the forums from Vanilla through Warlords of Draenor. I asked regularly, respectfully, and in the appropriate channels. Over and over again I was told by naysayers that it would NEVER happen, that Hunters were always going to be a pet class, and that if I didn’t like pets, I shouldn’t have rolled a Hunter.
Nevertheless, I persisted. In WoD beta, Lone Wolf was added as a talent, and I thought it was fantastic. DPS buff with no pet? Still get to bring the raid buffs a pet would bring? Can summon a pet in a pinch if I need one without having to respec? Awesome! Only downside was giving up a talent row for it, but I thought it was well worth it.
In Legion beta, when they initially had it as a Level 15 talent, I campaigned against it. I felt it should be an optional baseline passive, where you could use (or not use) a pet, whenever you saw fit, without making two dead talents. I continued this crusade in the Let’s Talk threads, in highly upvoted threads on every PTR forum, everywhere I could.
In BfA beta, it was finally made a baseline passive, but it was non-optional. I no longer had ANY ability to use the pets I had tamed over a decade ago as the spec I had mained for over a decade. Unwilling to be deterred, I continued to campaign for it to be an optional passive.
Later in beta, I was vindicated, and the vision I had for Lone Wolf for over a decade was realized. Had I (and hundreds of other Hunters over the years) given up when naysayers on the forum told us it was never going to happen, we wouldn’t have Lone Wolf as it is today.
And so it is with RSV. Maybe we get it back, maybe we get a 4th spec, maybe they make SV able to choose ANY weapon(s) a Hunter can equip and make it work (which would be befitting of a survivalist, making do with whatever tools they can find). We will never know if we stop asking.