Yes, agreed, the idea is there, and you know the outcome for Blizzard?
Ah yes… they fucked up, royally, did it so bad because they thought they knew better that nowadays their company is deemed a joke, one of the most beloved game companies of all time turned into becoming as liked as Electronic Arts… that’s a thing which takes clear dedication… just not in the right direction.
So please, spare us with that nonsense you’re speaking there, it’s actually atrocious.
I have to agree, as a designer and as a dev you’re in charge of providing your vision to customers. But you’re also in charge of making your product a success. Neither Blizzard does it for a hobby nor EHG does. It’s a business, so you can’t go along and do the things you want willy-nilly.
Hence you do ask because feedback is the number 1 reason to make your product in this industry qualitative better with reduced costs to boot and also you don’t stomp over your customers and instead revamp your own stance if needed since otherwise you’re out of a job quicker then the stock market crashed in 1929… for a damn good reason.
You thinking that ‘people don’t know what they want’ makes you inherently unable to properly add to any relevant discussion of the topic since you’re automatically seeing yourself in a superior position.
You do ask, but not directly, you derive information you personally need and can use in a professional field from the notions your customers give back. You’re 100% right! They don’t know the exact details… but let me tell you something which is very very important, they nonetheless know the direction, hence the core of the situation. Not the ‘how’ but the ‘what’ is where the knowledge of the majority starts and stops… but that bit? That one’s solid and unchanging.
Which is the biggest nonsense of all which I’ve heard since a while.
First of all… define ‘elite’. Because if it’s knowledge based then yes… those best versed in the respective topics should definitely be at the helm. But we both know that’s generally not the case and even if… nobody says those people have leadership qualities either, hence despite knowledge their respective ‘orders’ would not be parsed down properly.
If it’s wealth then that’s simply nonsensical to think as ‘the elite’. The vast majority of current leaders in those positions are there because they’re highly competitive… as it’s a high-return position. That means they’re intrinsically self-centered and object-oriented since to compete at a high level this is a mandatory aspect. So if they’re given a choice to sacrifice every single person underneath them to further their own position long-term or to stay in the place they are to enhance the experience of the masses… they’ll obviously chose the former.
This inherently goes against the actual task of what they should do, hence it’s not compatible with the ongoing systems normally in place nowadays, neither in companies nor in politics. Not understanding this is a sign of someone definitely neither being in the competitive ‘elite’ nor in the knowledge based ‘elite’ of any kind. Hence by your own standards you wouldn’t be heard anyway as your opinion is non-viable… so I’ll also hold you to that Standard you’ve proclaimed would be the ‘optimal’.
Your whole argumentation line automatically puts you in what you perceive as the ‘weak and un-intelligent’ by default, as otherwise you wouldn’t need to converse with those ‘below you’ as it’s not ‘worthy’ to do so, there is no value in it anyway, hence it would be a waste of time better used for other endeavours.
All in all I got to say: I literally never saw someone make a clown of themselves in such a grand manner in a Forum.
