Guild Wars 2

There’s 2 things i noticed for last months.

1: Anet is doing a lot of work… in the wrong direction (or that said the majority of the vocal players in forums, reddit and in-game chats).
2: With the new Trading Post and the new browser code inside the game, it would probably be possible to add a survey system.

So… my suggestion is to add a survey every month and ask the Entire playerbase what they think about something specific. As example:

Survey of the month: Would you like a new fractal?
-Yes
-No
-I don’t care
-What are fractals?

This could be a problematic tool for Anet if they don’t add a fractal later on and say nothing about it. BUT it would be a great tool for Anet if they don’t hide the survey information and tell at the end of the month: We had a 25% Yes, a 60% No, a 10% doesn’t care and 5% don’t know what fractals is. With that information, the playerbase wouldn’t feel cheated because we would understand that it’s ok not to make it, since a 60% majority wouldn’t seem to like a new fractal.

That way, even if the game is moving in another direction, we would get the feeling that we’re also choosing what we get into the game. And in my opinnion that’s something that could benefit both the players and Anet.

I don’t know what else can i say, any feedback please? :P

This is actually a really good idea. And if they keep the questions up for a decent amount of time (like you say, a month) it allows people who come on infrequently to give their input as well. And this way, Anet could show the playerbase the data they’re collecting and making their decisions off of.

I support this concept!
I played beta and they did something like this but never showed results at the end.

Instead of CDIs… they should do this. I feel it’s more effective since majority play the game anyways. Not everyone uses the forums.

We used to have in-game surveys at the betas, so it is easy to implement.

If does it would work? Only if anet learn with their errors and fails. As example this pack, and the trait system of last pack. Even with the major piece of player base shouting that it is a terrible bad decision, they are just silent waiting everyone stop talking about it, without caring about un-do the changes.

The time when they get back on their right minds, and learn that is better just admit a error and work on fix it, instead if think that as game designers they are the only ones that know what is better for the game, then at this time surveys will work.

I can say one thing about this. Aion did it. And it worked

I like the idea but I really doubt this will happen. You’re asking for more democracy and transparency from a company that more and more follows the opposite path: What we’re working on? We don’t say. You already know the game? We still gate everything. You only want to play WvW? Please leave your comfort zone and do some PvE.
Anet knows what’s best for you.

I think something like this would be a great idea.

I remember this very thing very clearly from the beta weekends when I played them. I thought it was a really good way to get feedback from the players – and not just the vocal minority. If they were to implement something like this inside the game itself, they could really get a feel for what players really want. And it was already in the game, so I don’t see how it could be that hard to pop it back in.