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<blockquote data-quote="slobster" data-source="post: 7935137" data-attributes="member: 6693711">In the &quot;GMs and players should have been given equal weight&quot; thing, I'm also pretty sure they didn't just take the survey results, calculate opinions that were in the majority on each topic, and then spit out a system based on majority rules.They took the feedback into account, tried to make the best game they could using that feedback to challenge some of their own assumptions or guide where improvements could be made, and ignored feedback in places where they thought they knew better than even a majority of respondents.That's how game design works, really. You get feedback, but you view it as a signpost to which parts of your game might need work/rework. You don't treat it as a guide of exactly which changes you should make and where.So the whole weighting discussion is sort of the old measure with a micrometer, cut with an axe argument. The surveys didn't need to &quot;weight&quot; GM feedback and player feedback separately, because it was never used in a way that weighting would really be necessary.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="slobster, post: 7935137, member: 6693711"] In the "GMs and players should have been given equal weight" thing, I'm also pretty sure they didn't just take the survey results, calculate opinions that were in the majority on each topic, and then spit out a system based on majority rules. They took the feedback into account, tried to make the best game they could using that feedback to challenge some of their own assumptions or guide where improvements could be made, and ignored feedback in places where they thought they knew better than even a majority of respondents. That's how game design works, really. You get feedback, but you view it as a signpost to which parts of your game might need work/rework. You don't treat it as a guide of exactly which changes you should make and where. So the whole weighting discussion is sort of the old measure with a micrometer, cut with an axe argument. The surveys didn't need to "weight" GM feedback and player feedback separately, because it was never used in a way that weighting would really be necessary. [/QUOTE]

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