You're making a mistake here Gandelf. 42% voted either "I play on classic", "None of my preferences are displayed here" or "I do not wish to answer this survey". You can’t just drop them. The classic people can be dismissed since the changes doesn't effect them, but the "None of my..." is quite likely what people who didn't like the change to their class
and the change to others or that just don't like the idea of a third ML line period would vote. The poll was missing an option for "I don't like the idea of third ML line". There are a lot of other possibilities for what those could have had in mind but we have no idea what it is.
This also leads to the question whenever the percent Sanya presented is "cleaned" of the "I play on classic" and/or the "I do not wish..." people or not. In this case it's 42% who voted "None of my..." which makes the largest group people who
might dislike the idea outright or have an opinion that isn't covered by the poll.. In this case it's really bad idea to make the changes; if 34% if are for, 24% against and for there are 42% who are uncertain you have a whooping 66% who either don't like the idea or whom you don't really know what they feel. No matter what it's enough that less then a third of these 42% is actually against the idea for it to be a tie between for and against. Not a good thing to make a change to a product if a quarter doesn’t like it and you have no idea what sizable portion are feeling about the issue.
Considering the talk on this board there are probably quite a few people who don't like the current
version of the third ML line offered but would rather see some classes given something else. I'm one of them and I voted "None of my..." so I wouldn't be too surprised to find out other did the same. With your "recount" you're missing out on these people which make it invalid. The only thing you can make out from the data is what Sanya is saying: 34% like, 14% hate change for other classes and 10% hate their own. Since we have no idea what those 42% voted nor what the "None of my..." crowd is thinking we can't say anything about them except that we don’t know. And that is never really a good basis for business decisions…
Ankh wrote:And remember, not every player voted.
Even if one out of ten voted it would give a quite correct value of what people feel about the issue. Statistics is actually good for something
Gandelf wrote:
Sanya's got it wrong though. Setting aside the issue of 3rd level ML abilities for one moment... if it is a business, then surely Mythic are in danger of losing the democratic majority of their customer base if they ignore what they want and take into consideration only those customers who are in a minority?
First off, it's not the majority (se above). Second the business logic is actually sound]never had it in the first place[/i].
I have to admit I belive these changes were more to not loose customers and balance the game rather then attracting old players back...
