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Dosu
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2017-03-26 12:04:51
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I see... but I think I didn't phrase this quite correctly.
From what I understood from Aristeaus's video, they planned on implementing cross server sage world and then did the poll, and then when it was shot down they decided to do it anyway because they planned it before. He also said that for some reason they couldn't cancel stuff.
What's so wrong with cancelling stuff or changing that plan? If I've scheduled out my day and something goes wrong, there's nothing wrong with changing my schedule.
Does that still mean that they just don't want to work then? Looking back, I'm not sure if the answer changed at all...
Ever since the first poll, I've had the su*ion, which is now confirmed, that the poll are just there to placate us and doesn't actually mean anything (I've a post of that somewhere in the poll thread I think)
It works like this:
They have something they already planned to implement
They expect us to like it
They make a poll for it
And when we "support" it and they release it, they can claim that they listened to us to make us "happy".
That plan obviously didn't quite work and backfired, but between the planned feature release versus a something that was potentially never intended to be cared about and mere a "crowd control" tool, which do you think they would abandon?
It is said that they plan to delay it, which once again is probably done to placate us. Obviously we would be very angry if the very thing we shot down was implemented a week later. But in two month, when the poll becomes a distant memory, they can put it in much safer with much less resistance. And they c*so claim that "back then player didn't want this, but now things have changed blah blah and thus etc etc" and say that they are not going against our wishes, just that our opinion are no longer "current" and thus no longer "valid"
Somehow, I feel that a lot of times, the company focus far more on social engineering and psychological tricks than they do actual computer engineering and game design.