Same story.. same history. Things change, things get nerfed and buffs with every releases of patches/updates, DLC and chapters. People coming on this forum to complain, rant and moan. No change. Whatever for the better or worst, sure, people just need the release and their voices to be heard. Without complains, companies wouldn't otherwise take the time to look at improving or changing their products. No different with gaming business. However, just food-for-thoughts, I wonder what percentage (as an estimate) of actual in-game players (the multi-millions, supposedly) of ESO are participating on this forum. Probably hard to measure, but, my guess it's could be a lower percentage. I'm just blindly basing it on the amount of responses per thread. Per non-Gina headline threads, there are a couple hundreds (at most) responses to the regular participants' threads. Sure, there are continuously new threads throughout the day and each and everyday; however, the face value response numbers hardly justify or reflect the supposedly tens of millions of ESO gamers.
Good game and all, with growing pains here and there. However, when someone post a thread about how jacked up things are, or things haven't been better, they seem to imply (and certain actually deemed to reflect so) they speak for the grander ESO gaming community; the ESO player-base community. Of course, everyone are entitled to each own opinions, views and ideas, it just hard to measure if the millions of ESO gamers are in agreement or disagreement. Certainly, the low number of responses to poll threads hardly reflect such mass number of actual active players.
I'm just saying, when certain people crying nerf and this and that is too OP so regularly, and then things are actually nerfed over and over again (like magsorc, for example,) per quarterly release of new updates/patch and such. I don't want to go too deep, and I'm sure they have their methods and analysis at the ZOS lounge; but, how much are ZOS and the dev have actually based their decisions (or attempts at "balance") on these forum participants and threads?
