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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 5520560" data-attributes="member: 996">Neither of those was meaningless.&nbsp; In the current poll, the distinction between not caring about balance and favoring imbalance is certainly meaningful.&nbsp; (In the prior one, 'getting bored' with an optionless character is certainly a reasonable response.)Well, that would be a less slanted version of the same poll (Though 'most' is still slanted, it sounds unreasonable.&nbsp; 'Extremelly' or 'Vital' might be better), but that is not at all how the choices are phrased.The way they're phrased, any of the responses except &quot;It's the most important thing in a game&quot; can be spun to support something along the lines of &quot;Balance is not that important.&quot;&nbsp; While a lot of folks might think that /some/ particular thing is more important than balance, few of them would probably agree on what those things are, and probably not many of them at all think that the specific things Essentials is compromising balance to achieve are worth it.&nbsp; None the less, with the responses phrased the way they are, all the responses except the first one&nbsp; &quot;It's the most important thing in a game&quot; can be used to back up the Essentials direction.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 5520560, member: 996"] Neither of those was meaningless. In the current poll, the distinction between not caring about balance and favoring imbalance is certainly meaningful. (In the prior one, 'getting bored' with an optionless character is certainly a reasonable response.) Well, that would be a less slanted version of the same poll (Though 'most' is still slanted, it sounds unreasonable. 'Extremelly' or 'Vital' might be better), but that is not at all how the choices are phrased. The way they're phrased, any of the responses except [b]"It's the most important thing in a game"[/b] can be spun to support something along the lines of "Balance is not that important." While a lot of folks might think that /some/ particular thing is more important than balance, few of them would probably agree on what those things are, and probably not many of them at all think that the specific things Essentials is compromising balance to achieve are worth it. None the less, with the responses phrased the way they are, all the responses except the first one [b]"It's the most important thing in a game"[/b] can be used to back up the Essentials direction. [/QUOTE]

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