Is this actual a giant social experiement?

[Ashanar]

Is there a way to give feedback that isn’t open to being ripped apart by Angry Keyboard Warriors?

Is this the greatest ever experiment into how much the quiet folks with jobs and families and small amounts of freetime will put up with until the fun is completely sucked away and the game is turned into the specific model that only a small number of players want (and I’m not saying that’s a problem btw, like, go for it, be the loudest voice in the room, get what you want from life!)

I get that there is always “more to it” than the customer can see, that if we could see the full picture we’d likely be a lot more supportive current decisions and actions that, without that context, seem downright daft (like… say, learning what other MMO’s did that made them money?!)

I get that the downtimes are when they need to be, that there isn’t really a best time and that needing to fix the game when it needs to be fixed is it’s own schedule, that said, you don’t fix the game!! xD changes that would be broadly supported don’t actually work… and… yeah…

I’m not actually that bothered.

It’s a game, one of many.

I control what I do with my free time and I’ve had a lot of fun in NW and met some amazing people.

But yeah, this is just at the point where I’m curious, like, what really is going on here??

[dfillmore1225]

The loudest people on the forums probably represent the smallest of the player base. I get disgusted by most of their suggestions and am happy when the developer dismisses most of them and actually makes good changes. So far I’ve had a lot of fun and hope it continues in this direction.

[vicinks]

I think Amazon is leveraging their technology to monitor NW players that also have Echos or Kindle devices in their homes. They record our game sessions and then correlate that to determine how many swearwords can be used in a given time frame.

When the an ideal threshold is reached, NW will autotrigger a “glitch” or “bug”, thereby causing the player to inflect gross harm on their equipment. This then triggers the player to go to Amazon to order replacements: new mice, keyboards, monitors, PC’s, etc.

So no, it is not a social experiment, but a marketing one…