A lot of Sailing haters are really uninformed.

Obviously not all.

But looking at the Twitter's most recent replies, it seems they can't get simple facts right.

"Sailing will fail the poll" - first of all, there is no upcoming poll determining whether sailing will enter the game, that poll already happened. Secondly, it passed the poll, obviously.

"Sailing gives me dungeoneering vibes" - ah yes, the skill originally solely contained to one small area of the map is very similar to the skill that opens the entire map up & lets you explore all of Gielinor plus dozens of new locations.

"I thought there would be polls about sailing?!?!?" - yes, content featured within sailing or is sailing-adjacent such as islands with new slayer bosses, new types of trees, new types of fish et cetera is going to be polled. The skill itself? Already polled. Already passed. Announcements about this sailing alpha have been plentiful, it *shouldn't* be news to anyone that it's upcoming.

"This is EOC all over again" - tell me you didn't play when EOC released without telling me. Something tells me that revamping the entire combat system which affects nearly every facet of the game in one way or another (unpolled) is a lot different than a singular skill being added (polled + passed).

It seems the majority of haters (not people with criticisms, that is entirely different) are uninformed, haven't kept up to date with announcements/videos/blogs for over a year, & have wild misconceptions that don't hold them back from slewing really lazy & sometimes embarrassing hate towards the Jmods.

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In all honesty, to some extent I think every player is uninformed, Yes-voters and No-voters alike.

While we've had a ton of player feedback during development it's been through closed NDA playtests (with hundreds of you who opted in through our surveys) it still hasn't really surfaced with the general community. THAT is what I hope the Alpha will accomplish the most, resetting it all so we all are all on the same page.

I spoke to hundreds of players at Runefest, Yes and No voters alike and the biggest thing seemed to be just vibes. People liked the Sailing vibe and voted yes, people disliked the vibe and voted no, or they disliked the vibe but trusted us so voted yes regardless.

Something I repeated a TON to multiple players at the event is "Blog 17 doesn't change an opinion someone had when they read blog 16" and I think that's so true for Sailing, even the few gameplay snippets we've shown of in-progress work don't fully capture the feeling of being on a boat and Sailing around to see how it fits into the game.

Anyway, to avoid a long ramble, all of this to say is whether you are a yes voter, a no voter or a Guthix sympathetic, we'd really ask that anyone who is mildly interested gives it just a bit of your time. Jump into the Alpha and then give us your feedback. We'll be here. We'll be listening.

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