Weird, since on average I have seen polls to have ±40 people participating. Definitely not 100. Unless its some official news poll.
Opinions that are usually not backed up by arguments. And very often they are not discussed at all.
Since polls introduction, I have somehow lost interest in forums. People tend to attach more importance to these polls than they actually deserve.
It’s not really about that suggestions with high positive polls ratio should be implemented. More like about suggestions with negative polls ratio not to be even forwarded to devs. That’s all.
Depends really.
For example the silenced ppsh which was NOT added to tech tree because people went ballistic over it being a fake gun.
But then depsite the wishes of 80% of the players, devs ended up adding it anyway as a premium a few months later.
So its true that devs can do anything they want but player opinions obviously matter to them even if they only care as long as its convinient for them.
You have a point here, I remember us two for example having lots of “heated” discussions in the past, and in the end we often came to one solution that made actually sense.
Just voting often discourages unpopular opinions to be voiced I can imagine.
Don’t act like wasting time on pointless debates was a good thing.
Im very grateful for polls since I no longer have to fight brainless mains under any of my suggestions.
Well, people especially had problem with only one specific faction to get silenced weapon in TT. And most people simply didn’t like the idea to have silenced weapon in TT at all.
It wasn’t even about the weapon being fake/prototype with vague sources.
Okay, here’s the thing tho - I very well remember that when I first brought up Soviet body armor being game breaking, more people gave the “just git good” comment in my post an upvote than my post.
After two years of discussing this issue people have changed their mind.
2 years ago people just started meeting body armour since it was unique to Berlin.
You could play a different campaign instead → does not concern you → you don’t care, sad reality really but thats how 90% of people work.
Well my point is that we should not forget that this forum is not a balance high counsel. Votes are not a democratic system, but just a way for the devs to understand what is popular.
Real balance discussions with participants and good logical input have much more value than simply voting.
In the end having two opposing sides meeting in the middle should create a compromise that is valueable for all sides.
It does happen, I remember having terrible discussions with nasty arguments with Adamnpee, Comrade Sina, Mortarion_Death and even Dregomz that in the end made us agree.