Epoch wrote on Sep 22
nd, 2011 at 4:20pm:
Spreading stupidity and spreading misery are two entirely different things.
Not necessarily. His stupidity does seem to make me feel dumber for reading it. Feeling that I am now dumber than I was just a little while ago causes me to feel misery. Unfortunately for the poor imbecile, the illusion of my stupidity is only that, an illusion. It did not actually cause me to become any less intelligent by reading. So, I suppose his limited attempt at spreading misery through inflicting his stupidity on people is not as successful as he might have preferred.
Although, seeing Stainer a little bit later than you, maybe I should take some steps to ensure that his stupidity is not somehow truly contagious...
kitsune_ko wrote on Sep 22
nd, 2011 at 2:28pm:
Filled in the survery; and the "comments" box at the end.
Very short survey for something with so many changes.
I do disagree with Tolero's "Shorter is better" idea.
It is the players that would be perfectly willing to tackle a multi-page questionaire with optional comment fields that will give Turbine/Devs the most thought-out and revelant feedback on the UI design and how to improve it.
Six-ish multiple choice questions making up the entirety of the survey just gets you much more of the "I like Pie" short attention span, non-intelligent fuckers mucking up the survey with their random button clickings before something bright and shiny distracts them.
Longer would have been much better.
Going back to the survey in question, it was a bit lacking substance. While longer is better than shorter, I have to agree with Tolero's reasoning that shorter is better than nothing. On the other hand, I do think the appropriate balance would have been at least another page or two. At least they had the generosity to include a blank where you can fill in as much as you want. I admit I am torn between hoping they can ready them all, and hoping they don't waste the next two months of development time on reviewing the pages and pages of text which people who actually have problems with the UI changes need to make the survey viable.