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    Quote Originally Posted by iamme View Post
    Ok was thinking of posting this in the game suggestions box but decided to put it here cuz its not really a game suggestion. In the last two months evony has been making largely unpopular decisions and i believe it is because of lack of player insight. I'm not sure if they if they are taking into consideration our opinion on matters but we are the people who make the game what it is. The outlook has been that of a parent to a child. What i say goes if you don't like it you can get out kinda thing. Someone opens up a thread about a major change evony and it becomes a free for all of opinions with some people making valid points and others acting childish and screaming cursing and saying evony sucks. I think the players should have a say in things before the final decision is truely made. An idea for this i believe would be polling in the forums or a head of players complaints type things on the forums. Maybe for the polling maybe have a minimum of 300-500 posts to be able to vote so you have players who are constantly on here and really know whats going on in the forums and how they operate. Or maybe having a person you discuss future ideas with so the players have a say in how things are done with the game. At the moment players are leaving in droves people i have played with forever no longer want to play the game because of the treatment they have recieved in the recent months. Can you please institute something where you listen to your players rather then institute something and let us know where the door is. Thank you in advance any suggestions or feed back will be appreciated(please dont rant with complaints on this thread i've had enough).
    This was more or less what the On Topic discussion forum was supposed to be for and it never really got responded to... don't even know if it was ever read by the higher ups. But they ended up closing it in the end... I like the idea but it doesn't seem like it would be taken into consideration. Or they'd send you over to Thantiums site...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Emma6 View Post
    i would say you are slightly depressed
    depressed no...i'm just baffled how a company could continue to make decisions that hurt them financially and completely neglect its paying customers. Otherwise i'm happier then i've ever been, i wont let evony depress me its a game after all not real life lol. I've seen explanations on why they have done things but never really seen them say ok since you all really dont like it lets put it back to the way it used to be so you can continue to enjoy your playing experience on evony. Has ownership changed hands recently over the last year or so?

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    Quote Originally Posted by jorbaud View Post
    It is hard to ask a wide range of players. Those on the forums represent a small amount of players. They could I suppose send out a mail in game and have a poll.



    They can test something for a year. There will always be bugs and glitches. That is impossible to get away from. I believe it could be better than it is now though.
    We did send out a poll to a large percentage of our players, and I believe the #1 requested item was bug fixes. Its one of the reasons we think fixing bugs is so important.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dawnseeker View Post
    We did send out a poll to a large percentage of our players, and I believe the #1 requested item was bug fixes. Its one of the reasons we think fixing bugs is so important.
    Where was this poll? I am in a coalition that owns more than half our server and no-one told me about this.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dawnseeker View Post
    We did send out a poll to a large percentage of our players, and I believe the #1 requested item was bug fixes. Its one of the reasons we think fixing bugs is so important.
    same lol when did that happen lol
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dawnseeker View Post
    We did send out a poll to a large percentage of our players, and I believe the #1 requested item was bug fixes. Its one of the reasons we think fixing bugs is so important.
    Ok but honestly after seeing player reaction and how its totally changed the game for all your players can you honestly tell me you still think it was a good decision?

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    Do a poll asking if people want this returned or want it left removed. Let everyone in all of age2 vote, that will ensure what is best for the majority will be what happens.
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    Quote Originally Posted by LpalK View Post
    Do a poll asking if people want this returned or want it left removed. Let everyone in all of age2 vote, that will ensure what is best for the majority will be what happens.
    Agreed with this.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dawnseeker View Post
    We did send out a poll to a large percentage of our players, and I believe the #1 requested item was bug fixes. Its one of the reasons we think fixing bugs is so important.
    I never saw or heard about that poll. But of course, the questions drive the usefulness of a poll. Having done some of that work professionally, you need focus groups first to give you the insight on what to ask in your poll. I can design questions to give pretty much any answer I want. It is a common political campaign trick. But designing a poll to give real insight on what customers want and value is a much more difficult, and far more profitable task. Most survey's are poorly designed biased garbage and they produce useless results.

    So you can say "the #1 requested item was bug fixes and multi-hit was a bug so we did what customers want. And you would be fooling yourself.

    Ask your customers if they want you to make changes to increase the amount of time they have to spend farming to maintain their armies. See how they vote on that question. That is exactly what you did by eliminating multi-hit.

    So two different questions can be made to apply to the same change, and will produce exactly opposite results. One causes you to lose customers.
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    Quote Originally Posted by LpalK View Post
    Where was this poll? I am in a coalition that owns more than half our server and no-one told me about this.
    I believe it was a survey sent out randomly to players. This was about 5-6months ago-ish.

    If your server started after that then no you wouldn't have known about it.

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