Tuesday, July 9, 2013

vocal minority in MMROPGs


I'll anticipate someone from the high level forums or a mod saying for sure one way or another, then. Of course, until then, I can only assume that I am correct.

And obviously you haven't been reading the opinions elsewhere on the web of the vocal minority in MMROPGs. To quote Nick Earl, senior vice president and general manager of EA's All Play label : "The market has spoken very loudly that that's the model they like," Earl said. "Even though there's some vocal minority that don't like it, ultimately the numbers would sell runescape accounts show that they and others all support the freemium model better."

That's the problem with believing the hype/rose tinted world view from within the vocal minority. The self-importance is artifically buy runescape accounts inflated. (I found another quote from Mark Gerhard, but running out of space so I'll post it in another response.)

And here's the quote from Mark Gerhard, about the free trade/wildy vote:

"When considering game-changing decisions such as this we always hold our players' ultimate game experience firmly in mind," said Mark Gerhard, Jagex CEO. "We have released a host of new content which provides a comparable PvP experience to the old Wilderness and mechanics to allow increased trade limits with long term friends but we are still regularly told by players that they want more. We want to find out whether the passionate voices we hear on this topic are truly representative of the entire community or just a vocal minority. If the vast majority of our players support the campaign then we will restore these features to the game as quickly as possible."

And before you go on about how the free trade/wildy vote was a success and shows how important the vocal minority is, allow me to remind you that there are still wide-spread complaints to this day about how that vote was handled that calls its legitimacy into question: the combination of sell rs accounts the two issues (couldn't vote for one without voting for the other) and no log-in required to vote (calling into question the legitimacy of the votes themselves). And one only has to look at how little the wilderness is used today as well, and the problems created by this change with spamming, gambling and the like.

And yes, I know I'm part of the vocal minority. But that doesn't mean my opinions gel with yours.

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