vattghern Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 i see a huuuge number of polls pop up on the forum and i wonder if they are any help at all to obsidien devs to decide what to add to the game and what not. do you think they even pay attention to the results? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
l3loodangel Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 (edited) It depends on the poll and might give some general indication about consensus. But should not be really important... Edited September 21, 2012 by l3loodangel https://www.youtube....=1&feature=plcp - SWTOR review Mass effect 3 and Video game art. Escape goat Our beloved Anita Sarkeesian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 I sure as hell hope not. 1 Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PsychoBlonde Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Lol, it's a meta-poll! Are the devs likely to decide what to do based on the polls? Probably not. Are they of interest for the actual community? Well, people vote on them, so they must be. It doesn't hurt to register your opinions, you never know what might stick. Grand Rhetorist of the Obsidian OrderIf you appeal to "realism" about a video game feature, you are wrong. Go back and try again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archon Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Great idea to set a poll about the polls :D Polls are great because sometimes they hint the existence of a silent majority. Have a bunch of people debate on an idea, set a poll after they're going in a direction and watch the votes refelecting the opposite. It's somehow fascinating. Careful what you wish ... ... you just might get it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merin Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Yes. Obsidian has said repeatedly they are watching the forums and paying attention to what the community wants. But degree of usefulness is probably more to the point. They are a data point that can help them decide what they ultimately want to do. One data point. Not a frivalous one, but certainly not an overriding one either. I think, overall, the polls will have little affect. Some, but mostly on the edges and tipping scales on game decisions that Obsidian was already on the fence about internally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pangur Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Probably it's the devs who should vote on this poll, not us. But I think polls can give a good idea of what people are thinking. After all, it's much easier to look at the results than to read tons of posts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sordel Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 43,000 backers of the project so far, twenty votes on this poll. I would think that Obsidian would not be basing any major decisions on our polls, no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kopi Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 I think they are useful if they need to convince the masses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarmo Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Maybe, probably, but polls can be very misleadingly tilted as well. The same way as all other discussion in the forum. The people frequenting the forum are... certain kind of people. The vast majority of gamers don't hang out in forums. Or answer polls. That aside, polls do provide some indication of what forum visitors think of things. Like, I thought there'd be a significant amount of gamers who don't want any more undead in their games, so I set up a polll about it and... oops, looks like I'm totally in a minority. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reddie Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 I don't think polls are useful to them, the amount of voters is really too small to justify any decision. But I do think polls threads can be useful, just as any other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WDeranged Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 (edited) I'd say they are, exactly how usefull I don't know but if I was in their place I certainly wouldn't mind them, also there are the fifty billion pages of debate that usually go with a good poll Edited September 21, 2012 by WDeranged Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orogun01 Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 How the **** should I know?! Go ask someone at Obsidian. I'd say the answer to that question is kind of like the answer to "who's the sucker in this poker game?"* *If you can't tell, it's you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grimlorn Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 I think the real question is: Are polls of polls helpful to Obsidian? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luckmann Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Where is the "Maybe"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teknoman2 Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 im pretty sure they already know what they are going to make and the possibility of being influenced by our polls is minimal at best The words freedom and liberty, are diminishing the true meaning of the abstract concept they try to explain. The true nature of freedom is such, that the human mind is unable to comprehend it, so we make a cage and name it freedom in order to give a tangible meaning to what we dont understand, just as our ancestors made gods like Thor or Zeus to explain thunder. -Teknoman2- What? You thought it was a quote from some well known wise guy from the past? Stupidity leads to willful ignorance - willful ignorance leads to hope - hope leads to sex - and that is how a new generation of fools is born! We are hardcore role players... When we go to bed with a girl, we roll a D20 to see if we hit the target and a D6 to see how much penetration damage we did. Modern democracy is: the sheep voting for which dog will be the shepherd's right hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCJ Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 I think that only Obsidian staff should be permitted to reply to this poll. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piccolo Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 I think it's a lot better to actually take the time to read lots of different opinions inside a thread rather than just glance at some poll results, and i'm sure Obsidian do that. Taking in lots of opinions about the game is a great way to get an idea of what the fans want, but the devs also need to use their own best judgement as well. For every good idea, opinion, or suggestion, there's often a lot of bad ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rajaat the Warbringer Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 I'd like to believe that if they wanted our opinion on something that much, they'd make an official topic with a poll. "It is an extraordinary act of courage to come to know a stranger's pain. To even consider such a thing demands a profound dispensation, a willingness to wear someone else's chains, to taste their suffering, to see with one's own eyes the hue cast on all things -- the terrible stain that is despair." -Tulas Shorn "Toll the Hounds" by Steven Erikson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kai Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 I think the real question is: Are polls of polls helpful to Obsidian? I think we need a poll to decide that. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shevek Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Most polls created here are push polls. People use biased language in the poll and that leads to questionable results. I do think the well written polls can be a useful barometer of public opinion for Obsidian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aedelric Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Generally polls are not overly useful, due to the fact the majority of them are made by people with an agenda. They often word them to reflect their own opinion over others or omit choices that should have been added. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shevek Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Generally polls are not overly useful, due to the fact the majority of them are made by people with an agenda. They often word them to reflect their own opinion over others or omit choices that should have been added. Exactly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archon Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 I think it's a lot better to actually take the time to read lots of different opinions inside a thread rather than just glance at some poll results, and i'm sure Obsidian do that. I wish they do but reading forums is sooooooo time-consuming. Nobody can read everything, even the team of moderators must find it hard since Kickstarter launched. Generally polls are not overly useful, due to the fact the majority of them are made by people with an agenda. They often word them to reflect their own opinion over others or omit choices that should have been added. An universal option "Other" with a comment solve this problem. But then you end up with a standard thread and a useless poll :D Careful what you wish ... ... you just might get it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tychoxi Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 lol this poll should be restricted to Obsidian devs, BUT judging from their KS updates they're listening to what we are saying and that most probably includes checking them tasty polls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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