Unfortunately the poll is incredibly biased.
Let’s look at the wording of your poll.
“What should Anet focus on being developed for next after Living World Season 3 ends?”
This is a fine question to ask. I don’t think there’s a specific issue with this question, especially since it takes into consideration the effort that Anet is putting into season 3 stuff.
“The continuation of SAB (which include more maps + a cohesive story)”
This is your first choice, and because of your insistence that “it’s totally different than option three” means you, as an individual, have a big bias towards Super Adventure Box, and would like it to be, well, the first thing on Anet’st list.
“Make Activities relevant (this includes a system where you can actually play with guilds and friends on the fly, like a custom arena)”
First, “making something relevant” is strongly worded. Very much so. This again shows your bias towards what you want Anet to focus on, instead of the big things, your bias remains focused on the individual things apart from the main focus of the game. Let’s see if this trend continues.
Also, this idea isn’t fully comprehensible. “Make activities relevant” how? Aren’t they side activities? As in not relevant to the main story? Things that are just a side activity so that people can break up the monotony of killing things? How would they become relevant? This idea needs explaining more than simply stating “includes a system where you can play with guilds and friends on the fly” and is far too vague to be put in a poll in it’s current format.
“Focus on making temporary content (e.g. Halloween, Wintersday, etc) have meatier encounters, by adding or redesigning events”
Again, strong wording, “focus” is the strong word here, meaning that your bias again holds up for things that are not the main concerns of the developers. The order of this list obviously shows your focus on temporary side activities instead of the main elements of the game. These may be main elements to you as in individual, but they are not for the developers.
To add on to the point of your bias, you refuse to place super adventure box on the same level as “temporary content” because it is the thing you desire the most. Your bias leads you to believe that SAB is so uniquely different than anything else GW2 offers that you’ve put it in it’s own category, first on the list, for everyone else to see. By every definition imaginable, SAB is temporary content. Your refusal to acknowledge such also shows your bias.
and finally
“Forget all that, just keep working on the regular pve updates (e.g. fractals, raids, world bosses etc.)”
If nothing else shows your bias towards the above, it’s your extremely lack of concern for “regular pve updates” by using the weakest language imaginable on this poll. Initially strong words “forget all that” makes the rest of this option passive, weak and, most importantly for your argument, unimportant for the viewer.
This poll is your way of reaffirming your belief that anything other than the current method of GW2 development is, in your eyes, a waste of time. This poll seeks to reaffirm that belief by trying to get anyone doing the poll to pick one of your favourite selections or the obviously weakly intended “general pve content”.
The poll does NOT, in any context, allow for the development of, say, an expansion pack for GW2. It doesn’t allow for any breathing room of interpretation other than saying “yeah whatever, this stuff I guess” and it’s obvious. It’s deliberate on your part to try and rack up support for side activities, things that GW2 may not be focused on right now. Your efforts would have actually been more beneficial, both for you and your desires, if you had simply stated that, yes, you want Super Adventure Box completed. You’d also then like to focus on bringing back activities to the eye of the average player, then focusing on other temporary content and then finally what the current cycle of development is.
Please don’t attempt to justify your poll as ‘unbiased’ when language and intent expressed in this thread by you shows the truth. If you truly want to make it unbiased, you’d place SAB in the temporary events category which it objectively is, whether you believe so or not, you would reword the language to make all options equal in the eye of those who view the poll and allow for more options than just side activities and festivals.
