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Which was the thread in which "nearly everyone" thought that the proposed nerfs were bad? Link please.
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http://boards.stratics.com/php-bin/uo/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=7658077&page=3&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=31&fpart=1
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So yes they should listen, but not every suggestion made by players is for the good of the game.
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And I didn't say they should listen to every suggestion, just the ones where the vast majority of the people agree on something. I hate repeating myself.
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polls on stratics are never representative of the player base as a whole because most players don't go to stratics boards AT ALL.
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The devs nerfed the BoS and immediately weakened the gold selling industry and increased the relevance of gold. It will take a while for the UO economy to heal from where it was, but the BoS nerf has definitely had a positive impact on the UO economy.
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I haven't seen the slightest impact on the economy, please post where you get this imformation from. All the change did was hurt lower level players that acutally collect gold, while not hurting the high-end players that only get things such as arties and powerscrolls.
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Just because a small minority of players complained that it would prevent them from summoning a mount when they get dismounted doesn't mean the change as a whole is directly against player feedback.
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You're misquoting me. I did not say that the whole change was bad, just the one part, which everyone in the thread agreed to, as well as a better change.
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I like flame-boiled hamburgers, thats the way I think they taste best. But I am not going to go into McDonald's tonight and tell them, they have to make their burgers that way. They provide the service/product, I can suggest they add to their menu since I pay for their service/product, but I can not tell them how they should provide their service/product. If I do not like their service/product, I can go down the road to Burger King, who have the same type of service/product but done their way(flame-boiled).
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If a company doesn't like to make any money, then they certainly don't have to listen to their customers. Macdonalds is a succesful company because they DO listen, they actually spend money to find out what they're customers want, we give it to EA for free and they'd don't listen.
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They do listen to everyone. Even the ones they shouldnt, The majority (myself included) thought that the petball timers needed to be changed because of the unbalance in PvP. They are being changed.
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Again, please read more carefully, it's only one part of the four that people disagreed with, not the entire thing.
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The BOS is good for the game, the economy will be more healty with this changes. BOS was a mistake that never should had been added to the game.
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Not according to the majority of the players.
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The Pet ball changes is needed and will balance PvP
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Yes, 3 of the 4 are good ones, but the one in question is not the best option that can be done, as is proved by the support in the other thread. The one in question would make PvP nearly unplayable as dismount will become equivlant to being dead.
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be aware that they are supposed to be making etheral mounts only take 3 seconds to mount instead of 5
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Even three seconds would be far too long though, unless all spells and swings also took three seconds you'd never get to remount. I'm guessing the majority of people trying to press that point don't PvP.
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honestly, there should be no forums where the dev team interacts with players. none. its really detrimental game design.
the players as a whole are too self-centered and overall are pretty dumb. you don't wanna hear it, but its true.
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You honestly believe that? The average game designer is NO smarter then your average player, and while a lot of players ARE self-centered, that's not what this is about. It's about how they don't listen to the player-base as a whole.
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when you come here and have to listen to a bunch of people crying over petty things and still even more that come here just to trash talk the game whom don't even play.. it makes it hard to do what your wanting.
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Certainly people that just cry without backing up their ideas are being anti-productive, but why you're flaming this thread with that is beyond me.
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I think the devs do listen and make changes accordingly, but I think there are too many things the playerbase would like to see happen that the devs simply do not have the manpower to carry out.
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I'll agree that they don't have the manpower to do a lot of new things taht this game needs, the bosses at EA aren't giving them enough love... BUT there's no reason they have to introduce new things into the game that the players don't want.
I would also like to add to the list that the player base new that the new dragons would be a PvP issue, we told the team, yet they were still put in as is. We, again, had good ideas to help balance them in PvP without hurting the supposed fun that they are to hunt, but they were ignored.