Does Turbine listen to player/poster feedback?
Yup. Nik Davidson (February 1, 2005) Sometimes, I wonder what people really think of us. From a purely cynical standpoint, I’d take from forum posts that people think we are either in one of two categories. Either we’re… 1) Sitting around scratching ourselves, waiting for the good people on the forums to tell us how to do our jobs, or 2) Small gods in an ivory tower, brilliant and unknowable, capable of shaping time and space to our will. Having worked here for a while, I find both theories kind of funny. Anyway, there are two types of suggestions and discussions, Farlander. You are correct – the core systems of our game are in place. We’re not going to randomly start chucking huge chunks of code out the window, or creating vast new systems rather than polish and improve our existing ones. So, suggestions and discussions that focus on us doing either of those are not going to come to a fruitful end. Things that we’re looking most closely at right now are “polish features” – small thi