In recent years, much to the advent of the internet, gamers have been heading online to voice their opinions concerning their favorite games for better or worse. Some developers largely ignore their player base when creating and maintaining their game post launch to better stay true to their initial vision for the game. The developers who do listen and are open to constructive feedback are torn on how to accurately decipher the views being given about their game due to how social media and forums receive this information. In many cases when issues come up with a game the most vocal users make themselves known rather quickly to the developers and community alike by spamming ideas repeatedly or making a large stink over issues on fan sites. These certain gamers may or may not represent the majority opinion on how the game should be taken forward but more often than not this will sway the developers to make knee jerk reactions to the “loudest moron in the room”. A reaction like this usually ends up with the developer caving in to the minority opinion while shunning the actual majority. A game developer needs to weigh in social media and forum feedback along with their own usage metrics to accurately assess how the community really feels if they want to make a balanced product everyone can enjoy.

Has one of your favorite games been taken down a path you just don't like? Sound off in the comments below, we would love to hear your input on this issue that is sure to boggle both gamers and game developers for years to come.

hippie

Posted: Dec 13, 2012 6:19 am
Related Forum: Gaming Discussion