Lanefan
Victoria Rules
That's just it - while we know our opinions are being collected, we can't trust that some of those opinions aren't immediately being discarded as irrelevant due to some arbitrary "we don't want to hear from these people" limits.Why? They don't owe us any explanation. They put out a survey, feel free to respond if you want your opinion to be collected,
For example, they might decide to toss out any responses from people who have never played 5e.
Or toss out any responses from people older than 35 (which is exactly what they did* in 1999).
Or toss out any responses from people who spend less than $50 per year on WotC products.
Or they might not do this. The point is that we can't trust them when it comes to massaging the data they use to arrive at their conclusions.
* - if you don't believe me, click on "Features" at the top of this page then click on "Adventure Game Industry..." (second selection down) then read section 1 carefully.
And yet they use those less-than-1% surveys to extrapolate what they think the player base wants in the game.It should be self-explanatory that an online survey of far less than 1% of the player base is not intended to survey the entire player base