In the comments of my last Daily Grind on bad newbie advice, Massively OP commenter Veldan noted that while he agreed ragequitting was a wasted effort, giving feedback to game developers might be equally pointless.
“I’ve made literally thousands of forum posts on MMO forums over the years, and the amount that I felt got seriously considered by dev teams is well below 1%,” he wrote. “Your feedback doesn’t matter nearly as much as the devs often say it does, no matter how polite and rational it is.”
I wondered whether his experience with giving feedback to game devs is universal because I’ve certainly felt the same way about some studios, even as press. Do you also suspect that your effort crafting detailed feedback or even bug reports for game devs is a waste of time? Or to put it another way — can you think of a time when an MMO dev ever addressed or incorporated your feedback?
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