Originally posted by F1Bomber
I would like to see what hitech does in regards to gameplay by listening to the remainder of his 99% of his customers, not including the 1% that post on the forum. I doubt that the people on this forum represent the current thoughts about the game or the direction the game should be heading.
IMO you are wrong. First, the people who post (no matter what side of an issue) are the small minority of a much larger group who (to varying degrees, depending on specific issue) do not know, like or otherwise care to post in the forum.
For example, my squad has 40+ members, and I know from direct conversation on our website and during squad nights that most are much less happy with AH now than prior to the arena split, but only 4-5 of us ever post regularly in this forum.
Same for other countrymen, who still complain about some of these issues like ENY and arena caps throughout any day or time I care to play. Certainly, fewer initiate talking about ENY or arena caps anymore as it's obvious nothing is going to change. However, when someone does get frustrated and mentions it over channel, there is always several agreeing response from players.
All of which suggests that for the major issues, the most common opinions or suggestions or complaints being offered are very likely the position of a great many more active players than you might think.
In other words, what you see on the forum in terms of a opinion or position on a major issue is only a small sampling of a greater population of players who agree with it. This is of course, true for all sides of that issue, but gage the relative community support (with a grain of salt) by how large the sampling is for each side.
Based on that, I believe that in the beginning of these issies, and even now, the number of players (minus 2-weekers and newbs still learning the basics) who oppose or dislike split arenas and restictive arena caps, smaller maps and redundant rotation, radical ENY shifts and more side imbalance than before is far greater than anyone suspects, and far larger than those that are perfectly happy with the way things are.
