VDZ wrote:Design by community majority decision is a terrible way to make a game.
Actually, it has worked in the past, but the lead dev had final veto over any design requests voted in by the player population. Sometimes those requests were very hard to fulfill.
I do hope that people don't think that because an idea is popular means must be implemented. Some ideas look good on paper, but the implementation isn't practical. Some ideas don't look good on paper, but once implemented, actually come off very elegantly. And there is always those cases where people think they want something, but when faced with actually having it, they hate it.
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