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Originally Posted by Llodd
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If it was, I wonder how fast things would be 'fixed' [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
Anyhow. The only thing I personally wonder about is the amount of casuals that once they get to the higher echelons quit because they see no way of experiencing the endgame. That must happen, but to what degree. The influx of new players keep the overall figures quite high it appears. If there had been true competition in VP for the past 3 years or so, would the server population be even higher than it is today, would the turnover be less.
Without being able to measure that and the population being good, there really is no compulsion on the devs to change things, and yet if what i said is true (and I really can't see the opposite being true - "hey come to p99 where you have little to no chance of seeing the endzone unless you join TMO/whoever is topdog!!") they have shot themselves in the foot somewhat. |
I think that this is absolutely something that needs to be looked into. We've seen it time and again on the forums where people quit for these reasons, but those are the vocal few. How often does it happen silently I wonder? It sounds like a very hard thing to capture data on, since the most direct method would be a poll of some sort, but if somebody has quit they are far less likely to see and/or respond to the poll. That's why a lot of services ask for feedback when someone cancels or discountinues use of the service. We could check the database and compare #of accounts that were active in the past to #of accounts active currently and try to compare patterns, but that sounds like more work than it might be worth.
The only option I can really come up with for capturing this kind of data is something like a poll for current players to vote on whether or not they are satisfied with the way things are, or if they would like to see changes, but we see those polls and this thread every single week and still nothing happens despite and overwhelming majority speaking out.
As a player I could see how it could become a little disheartening to continually see nothing done. It would be nice if something were happening besides the constant churn provided by these threads/polls everyday. That's not getting us anywhere.
What else can we do to determine how big of an issue this is? Aside from making polls/continue posting in threads such as this I'm at a loss.
Anyone else have ideas?