So, what should IG do with this feedback? Like what specifically would these people like to see? Feedback can be a valuable thing, certainly, but maybe you could ask these people to be a bit more specific on their likes, dislikes and actual preferences? Like if Riptor doesn’t seem to be enough of this or that, what might some people want to improve upon that and make the character better?
I’m also curious if there was any other feedback on other characters? I get a general “they liked other characters” vibe from your posts, but what specifically hit well with people besides Jago’s laser sword?
I’m only asking because if you do seem to get a good number of casuals and fighting game fans to drop in and play, it might be nice to hear what else they think, for better or worse.
Let me just give you one quick piece of advice and feel free to listen or not.
When you present the opinion first, followed by a group of people being the originators of said opinion that they all seem to agree upon and you present it in that order, you’re going to raise some red flags with people.
Why? Because a lot of the people you’ve been hearing from in this thread are regulars, many of whom were around when Double Helix was making this game. In other words, they’ve been around the block enough times to have seen people use the argumentum ad populum approach when requesting changes or presenting an opinion.
So instead of someone saying “I think Sadira looks too much like a Mortal Kombat character,” some people would concoct some scenario whereby they magically managed to come across a greater number of people who had an oddly specific opinion and then run with that, so it became “I took a poll at this party I was at where they were playing KI and everyone, like 40 people in all, that played, thought Sadira belonged more in a Mortal Kombat game.”
As if one person using a large number was so much more valuable and attention-worthy as it pertains to the developers and thus more likely to cause an actual response like “well this guy on the Internet spent a whole night talking to people at a party and they all said the same thing. Maybe we really should reconsider redesigning Sadira.”
Now I’m not making any assumptions on what other people thought regarding your original post and I’m also not making any assumption about you or your age diverse group of beach going fighting game semi-enthusiasts that remember KI, but if you’re trying to figure out why there’s been a less than favorable response to your feedback, the fact that people have seen the large group concensus report used a good deal and it can sound very disingenuous because of this.
I know that has nothing to do with you, but it’s possible that a little blow back could come from this. Personally, I think someone with a sort of makeshift focus group could be interesting to hear from, so like I said earlier, if you get any more feedback from people, please feel free to share.