Christian Walther wrote:
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First off, you aren't improving the Uru experience of many people who are already here; we don't want that talk.
It's true that I'm not improving anything by talking. That's why I usually keep quiet, as you can tell from my post count. I prefer delivering implementations of improvements to talking about them (the talk can happen afterwards, it works much better when there's something tangible to base it on - otherwise I tend to waste way too much energy failing to make myself understood).
OMG! “we don't want that talk” uses an ALL INCLUSIVE PRONOUN… It is not accurate! The idea of anti-diversity, censorship … ugrrrr!
Christian, you are too improving things. DO NOT listen to those that only want to hear what they want to hear. Trying to be PC and polite about “we don't want … so shut up” ideas is waste. A whole flock of writers and maintainers are going down the road basing decisions on needing to attract new players to the game. Whole discussions sprung up around how to change game flow to get new players into multiplayer sooner. If the community was against that, it would all be wasted work. If those feeling attracting new players was a bad thing were a significant number and had began adding arguments to the discussions (this thread was NOT intended to be that discussion), everyone would have had new thoughts and issues to consider with a different level of importance.
Very few here ‘do not want or think there is no need’ to attract new players, whatever their reason. So, while your sentiment was surprising to me, it did get me thinking and I asked. While
65 of 1165 (5.5%) is a small sample and far from conclusive, I think there is a clear majority that feels new players are needed.
Reality checks are needed from time to time. Free speech and dissenting opinions are always good things.