I grow tired of this. Fun fact: Most of the changes we ever made are based on ideas and talk from the community. But of course, let's ignore that all together. Makes the blaming a lot easier, doesn't it.
You fail to understand what
the community is, Lexx.
If
one member of the community suggests a change, and you introduce that change without consulting the rest of the community members, or after only consulting a small number of them, you
do not introduce a change "based on ideas from the community;" you introduce a change based on ideas from
one person,
one member of the community.
Similarly, if there is a discussion whether a feature should be introduced/removed or not, and there are 3 people saying 'do it' and 30 people saying 'don't do it,' and you decide to go with the minority, and do something that the vast majority says 'don't do it' to, then, again, you do not introduce a change based on discussion with(in) the community, you introduce a change that is
in disregard of what
the community suggested (one obvious example - the removal of old namecolorizing - immediately comes to mind).
The community means either all the people that are active on the forum/IRC, or at least the vast majority of them, Lexx.
Would you call two bees flying around
a bee hive? No, you probably wouldn't. So please, do not refer to some obscure random chunks of the player-base as
the community.
Rather than saying, for example, "we introduced the new town control system because the community requested it," it might therefore be better to say: "we introduced the new TC system because 3 random
members of the community, who never even participated in TC fights, suggested that it might work better than the old one."
