Poll: Reaction to Removal of Full Elementalists

[wizturbo]

Do not post comments in this thread.  There's another thread for that.  This is purely to give staff a statistical representation of the player sentiment on these changes.

[MeTekillot]

It gives them a statistical representation of GDB using and vocal players, but not the entire playerbase. There may be a plethora of player requests communicating a wholly different sentiment that we are utterly blind to.

[wizturbo]

It gives them a statistical representation of GDB using and vocal players, but not the entire playerbase. There may be a plethora of player requests communicating a wholly different sentiment that we are utterly blind to.

This is true.  But I don't have a way to poll all players.  Imperfect tool, but significantly better than trying to gauge sentiment by reading posts on the main thread.

[Asmoth]

Just want to mention.

I do understand how you guys feel about the full magickers.

If I had a choice, I would of course pick to have the new subguilds and still have the option for the OG Mages.

However, I don't, and we don't, so lamenting about it is.

Futile.

[Kryos]

http://gdb.armageddon.org/index.php/topic,50868.0.html

To discuss that futility is in fact, a horrifying concept.

http://gdb.armageddon.org/index.php/topic,50863.0.html

To discuss the changes themselves.

[Vositus]

Posting for retention. I'd like to see the same poll in 3-6 months when I'm less bummed out.

[Nergal]

This poll has been helpful and we look forward to gathering additional feedback once the change has had time to settle, and additional parts of the guild revamp go live.

[Molten Heart]

What's the question? I think maybe it's been edited and maybe someone removed the question or my browser is broken. I currently I see the question as this: "Question:   Please do not post commentary in this thread.  Votes only."

[RogueGunslinger]

The questions is implied. "Do you agree with these changes?"

[Beethoven]

These changes obviously being the removal of full elementalists.

[Molten Heart]

Thanks for clearing up the confusion.

[Narf]

I voted neutral, but what that actually represents is a feeling that some parts of this are really good and some parts are really bad.

[Iiyola]

Exactly 100 votes. I guess we can see that the majority is for these changes.

[Beethoven]

Yeah, except the other poll suggests otherwise.

http://gdb.armageddon.org/index.php/topic,50871.0.html

[wizturbo]

To be fair, that last poll was asking the question "Should mages have more role opportunities?".  Which isn't strongly correlated to this poll.

[Beethoven]

Really? "Would these changes, in your opinion, be better served by also keeping the old mage options?" seems like a pretty similar question to "do you agree with the removal of full elementalists?" except that yes in one is correlated with no in the other.

[RogueGunslinger]

This poll is about the changes on the whole, which most people agree with or don't care about. That includes magicker-subs, as well as the removal of full magickers. The other poll is for just the one thing.

[Beethoven]

Oh, well, I suppose I was misled by the title of this poll, which seems to be probing for reactions to the removal of full elementalists in particular.

[Bogre]

Yeah, you can't judge the full elementalist question by this poll, because it's actually asking about the changes in total. And it asks a bit of a leading way - (drawn into the game) is a softer option, especially with new exciting stuff to play, than (I might quit), the polarizing option. Not a lot of people are wanting to quit.

[roughneck]

The stats that matter are the ones that say how many players log in, and how regularly they log in. As a player, albeit a somewhat irregular one, that's what I care about. If I was running the game, those are the stats I would watch the closest as well.