Should blizzard have a voting system for future content?

[Electric Lighter]

Taking a page from Runescape would wow benefit by having players vote on future content to be developed?

If they put a small restriction on it like rival, aotc, or keystone master to mirror runescape's restrictions would that improve the overall quality of the game by killing off ego projects like warfronts, isles. ap system. and such things like changes to torghast rather then allowing them to go live with a large amount of wasted hours gone into developing them to completion?

Would wow be helped or hindered by a system like this?

[A Chozo]

Would wow be helped or hindered by a system like this?

Hindered, of course. Playerbase can't design a game to save their faces - this same playerbase populated and ruined Classic WoW with their degenerative tendencies. They are not good reference for game development.

Not that Blizzard knows what the fuck to do either but ruining the game even more by listening to this playerbase through votes is one hell of a bad idea. It doesn't even work in Runescape.

[arr0gance]

Yes, WoW would be immeasurably, irreplaceably and incomprehensibly ruined by this idea. Game design by democracy is one the most idiotic suggestions you can make and is especially abhorrent for a game like WoW where no two WoW players ever agree on literally fucking anything. "It works for RuneScape" is not an argument because -- correct me if I'm wrong here -- but WoW is not RuneScape and RuneScape (especially OSRS where this "feature" is used) has a very different player demographic... the least of which is precipitated by the fact that, you know, it's fucking free.

Anyway, to recap: This idea sucks.

[Resheph]

No, obviously not. Wow. Who would ever think game design by majority vote would be a good idea?

No matter what you would think by reading these forums populated by people that did not play Blizzard games for the last decade, WoW is doing just fine as it is and really does not need any misguided attempts to make the 1% that is vocal online to dictate how the game should be for the 99% that actually play and enjoy it....

[hulkgor]

Taking a page from Runescape would wow benefit by having players vote on future content to be developed?

If they put a small restriction on it like rival, aotc, or keystone master to mirror runescape's restrictions would that improve the overall quality of the game by killing off ego projects like warfronts, isles. ap system. and such things like changes to torghast rather then allowing them to go live with a large amount of wasted hours gone into developing them to completion?

Would wow be helped or hindered by a system like this?

Yea, let's not have the health of the game, and new features be voted upon by organized masses of streamer fanboys or whatever similar to that.

Let development be left to developers, and what's (in their opinion) best for the game. This isn't a popularity contest.

That said, nothing wrong with minor stuff like they did with the Wandering mount.

[Thelxi]

You're already voting with your wallet and Blizzard is listening very closely don't worry about it.

[Aeluron Lightsong]

Generally no buut if they had to it should be a very controlled survey and not forum based.

[deenman]

Yea, let's not have the health of the game, and new features be voted upon by organized masses of streamer fanboys or whatever similar to that.

Let development be left to developers, and what's (in their opinion) best for the game. This isn't a popularity contest.

That said, nothing wrong with minor stuff like they did with the Wandering mount.

dont see what streamers and their fanboys have to do with anything,these votes would be limited to people with active subs and latest expansion,the devs would advertise these votes ingame to make sure as many people as posible take place in it,emails also etc

[hulkgor]

dont see what streamers and their fanboys have to do with anything,these votes would be limited to people with active subs and latest expansion,the devs would advertise these votes ingame to make sure as many people as posible take place in it,emails also etc

Honestly? Time and time again we're faced with how some loud voices can influence a lot of people, that follow along without reasoning of their own, mimicking their overlords.

Would it shock you that the same would occur on 'community voting polls' deciding game features?

Seriously?

[Kallisto]

Taking a page from Runescape would wow benefit by having players vote on future content to be developed?

If they put a small restriction on it like rival, aotc, or keystone master to mirror runescape's restrictions would that improve the overall quality of the game by killing off ego projects like warfronts, isles. ap system. and such things like changes to torghast rather then allowing them to go live with a large amount of wasted hours gone into developing them to completion?

Would wow be helped or hindered by a system like this?

At no point should the wow community have any kind of democratic input into how the development of wow should go. Simply put the community is too divided on basically every single issue that if you put 100 wow fans in a room. Get them to make a list of ideas that would make the game work, you would end up with 200 sets of ideas and no two of them would ever work in the same game. And why 200 because people scream they want x, get x, then scream how they never wanted x but wanted y instead.

[Lucetia]

Taking a page from Runescape would wow benefit by having players vote on future content to be developed?

The player base has proven time and time again they don't have the slightest clue what is a good or bad idea in WoW. Majority of the players want what is convenient for forget about everyone else. Most can't see why things are done the way they are because they dislike it.

[deenman]

Honestly? Time and time again we're faced with how some loud voices can influence a lot of people, that follow along without reasoning of their own, mimicking their overlords.

Would it shock you that the same would occur on 'community voting polls' deciding game features?

Seriously?

but in this case why would people be influenced to vote on a choice ingame that they dont agree with that would affect them in a way they disagree with?

wait...what am i saying...people vote against their best interest every 4 years...yeah nvm

[draynay]

Keeping informed through surveys is a good idea, but direct voting is a terrible idea because people are idiots.

[Low Hanging Fruit]

God no.. the ideas I see pop up and would get voted on just on this forum alone would have had the game dead around TBC.

[Thoramir]

the only time tehy should be able to vote is if blizzard has 2 or more story ideas they want to follow but cant decide what one to follow then they could make it so the players has a say, but only if it makes sense for the game and them, and in the end blizzard has the last word(if i remember right there was some kind of vote in BFA on the horde side with the sourfang questline, something like that would work).

we are voting about features by using them or not, you can bet your ass that blizzard is looking how much something is used and decide from there if to make more to that or not or if they take it into the next expansion in some form.

[arr0gance]

the only time tehy should be able to vote is if blizzard has 2 or more story ideas they want to follow but cant decide what one to follow then they could make it so the players has a say, but only if it makes sense for the game and them, and in the end blizzard has the last word(if i remember right there was some kind of vote in BFA on the horde side with the sourfang questline, something like that would work).

we are voting about features by using them or not, you can bet your ass that blizzard is looking how much something is used and decide from there if to make more to that or not or if they take it into the next expansion in some form.

Yeah, that's what this game needs.

"DAE think Blizzard sucks at writing stories?" immediately replaced by "Why 50% of this playerbase is fucking retarded. Also, you're all {insert female character} simps."

[Swnem]

Hindered, of course. Playerbase can't design a game to save their faces - this same playerbase populated and ruined Classic WoW with their degenerative tendencies. They are not good reference for game development.

Not that Blizzard knows what the fuck to do either but ruining the game even more by listening to this playerbase through votes is one hell of a bad idea. It doesn't even work in Runescape.

You know... looking at the decision the community made for a mount, it might not be as bad as you might think.

But, game development isn't that simple. When the game expansion gets developed with certain systems and their patch expansion is already planned, it's not like they can say "Ok, didn't work, lets make something new from scratch". The resources needed for each job is different. Which other part of the game that those resources were allocated to gets delayed or put on hold now? Likely the next game expansion. Or they just get outright cancelled.
These decisions, to be made, have to be made well in advance.

[Heladys]

Directly following player input has only ever resulted in badness.

[kaminaris]

Problem with wow is not the direction of development but the lack of any defined direction at all.

And you never know the what players actually like unless all of them takes a voice not just small vocal minorities that would just ruin the game completely.
Brace for it, what may be fun for developers might not be fun for you, finding echo chamber doesn't really validate your opinion.

BUT blizzard should take a clear direction where the game is suppose to be heading and fucking stick with it.
Because last 4 expansions been like a compass near south pole.

And problem with systems/new types of content is that blizzard is abandoning it every expansion so they are never polished.

[Thoramir]

Yeah, that's what this game needs.

"DAE think Blizzard sucks at writing stories?" immediately replaced by "Why 50% of this playerbase is fucking retarded. Also, you're all {insert female character} simps."

why did that not happen with the sourfang questline then?(other then the whole story of BFA was bad in and of itself)

you could make quest lines where the choises you pick have meaning(going by majority vote here) and develope the story that way, now for anything other then story that dont work

you will always have someone complaining about the story no matter what they do so all it does is change how the story is writen and give a little more power to influence the story to the players nothing else.