It seems that with the exception of a few stragglers (...Tree? Wonder which option he'll vote for
) the results are in.
Thought I'd give my take on the outcome, with the proviso that it is just my opinion. I can foresee disagreement in the interpretation of all this - maybe we just moved the problem one step back, from disagreeing about the terrain to disagreeing about the
meaning of the vote about the terrain
Really, the only interpretation that is important is what the devs make of it.
I'll be upfront and state that I voted "Very Unhappy", but I'll try to give a balanced reading of how I see the result. Some of you may disagree on whether I succeed or not.
It's a mix of good and bad. Roughly two thirds of people are happy against one third unhappy. The devs should take some comfort from that. It means that maybe it isn't so critical to get this fixed asap - the majority of people can continue to enjoy the game while waiting for terrain improvements. (This wasn't clear before the poll. From the noise generated it was easy to believe the split was closer to 50:50.)
Having said that, the vast majority (94%) believe that further improvement is necessary.
On the bad side, to have over a third (38%) of your customers dissatisfied with something as important as the terrain IS serious, and to have 1 in 8 (13%) of the people responding say that the terrain actually puts them off playing the game is disastrous (despite being one of the afflicted I
was really surprised the number was as high as that).
So, not sure overall exactly what this proves - maybe that we are severely split - though we didn't need a poll to realise that. A majority are
happy with things as they stand. A small, but significant, number are so unhappy they don't want to play the game.
Over to the devs......