Rogue Trader - Community Insights
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I read through these - nothing exceptional I thought, but it was somewhat interesting.
Sometimes I wonder what they get out of those surveys.
Those statistics are completely biased since it's mostly their current fans who receive them and participate. For example, "Warhammer 40,000 became the absolute favorite": yes, players who didn't like that so much are gone and didn't bother to answer the survey, and those who like WH40k did and obviously like it.
Hopefully there were other questions of feedback on the game itself and how to improve it.
Those statistics are completely biased since it's mostly their current fans who receive them and participate. For example, "Warhammer 40,000 became the absolute favorite": yes, players who didn't like that so much are gone and didn't bother to answer the survey, and those who like WH40k did and obviously like it.
Hopefully there were other questions of feedback on the game itself and how to improve it.
I think it's probably just fun and interesting to them...Sometimes I wonder what they get out of those surveys.
Those statistics are completely biased since it's mostly their current fans who receive them and participate. For example, "Warhammer 40,000 became the absolute favorite": yes, players who didn't like that so much are gone and didn't bother to answer the survey, and those who like WH40k did and obviously like it.
Hopefully there were other questions of feedback on the game itself and how to improve it.
Who knows with them; it's not impossible.
Vaelith
Lawful Evil Harbinger
It's very possible there are areas where they're not sure which direction to take, and scouring their fan base for significant trends is helpful to them - and also learn if some of the most risky ideas they had actually paid off and worth investing resources into, which is really important for them to keep growing steadily.
Well it's not surprising that people who like WH40K are drawn to the game (and the poll). However, that audience is likely not representative of the cRPG market as a whole.
Vaelith
Lawful Evil Harbinger
The last part of that message confused me because I'm not sure how does it matter whether it's representative of any market other than the market they're polling: their own fanbase.
But also it's worth pointing out that Rogue Trader has sold better and faster than their Pathfinder games, and than any other cRPG released in the last 20 years except for DOS2 and BG3, so they're probably fine with not representing everyone.
I think people wanted to point out that if they wanted to increase the sales of their next game compared to the previous one, perhaps polling outside their existing fan base would be a smarter strategy than within the community. Then again, others pointed out that the survey's point might not have been to increase sales outside their fanbase...Not every potential CRPG player likes the WH40k universe or the previous Owlcat games, so they could still considerably increase their sales.
I have the feeling there were more WH40k fans than Pathfinder fans, so maybe they were happy enough to make that move, even if they lost a part of their former customers.
IIRC, the past surveys were a little odd, too. I don't think they do that just for fun, since they already do other community activities, but maybe they like to probe secondary topics that popped up during the development cycle, just to see if they should have made other decisions or if potential paths are worth exploring.
Here, it's different. Those questions are more fundamental, so the more I see them, the more I think it's wrong to ask them to a preselected audience: they might prevent fans to go away, but they won't gain new ones. If you're genuinely considering those questions, that's the kind of stats you buy.
IIRC, the past surveys were a little odd, too. I don't think they do that just for fun, since they already do other community activities, but maybe they like to probe secondary topics that popped up during the development cycle, just to see if they should have made other decisions or if potential paths are worth exploring.
Here, it's different. Those questions are more fundamental, so the more I see them, the more I think it's wrong to ask them to a preselected audience: they might prevent fans to go away, but they won't gain new ones. If you're genuinely considering those questions, that's the kind of stats you buy.
They did make 2 pathfinder games with a bunch of dlc in a row. I would get bored of doing the same thing for around a decade so I don't fault them for doing something else for now. Maybe they'll do something else again after Dark Heresy.
I'd be happy to have them try a cyberpunk setting like shadowrun. It feels like that's something they could easily do well.
I'd be happy to have them try a cyberpunk setting like shadowrun. It feels like that's something they could easily do well.
Vaelith
Lawful Evil Harbinger
I honestly don't know if they intend to expand sales beyond their current fanbase, but if so, I hope they remain loyal to their identity and not slowly turn their games into soulslikes or something because that's what's popular. That's an extreme example for emphasis, I know that probably won't happen, and I'd love them to see try other settings next, or even go back to Pathfinder, I just rather they kept their games uniquely feeling like Owlcat games and not go the BioWare route.