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We’ve come to the opinion that Betas, published designs, annual surveys, Player focus tests etc suit RS3 more. An osrs-style poll system has real drawbacks for a game that has more of a ‘new stories, new challenges’ approach and an expectation of regular content launches (even though they haven’t happened frequently in the past few months).
You are absolutely right that we shouldn’t give the polls so much prominence if that’s the case, though, so we will look into what to do there.
Don't try to paint a horse pink. OSRS polls work. Copy it. Yeah it will be copying it, but trying to reinvent the wheel every year does you more harm than good.
Polls like in OSRS aren’t perfect and don’t work for every game, otherwise OSRS wouldn’t be the only game in the world that uses them. There are dozens of reasons it would be a problem for RS, and there are dozens of reasons it suits OSRS (including OSRS being a game that has been built on making sure it preserves what it has, rather than going too far in new directions)
I agree. But one of the biggest thing that polls do for OS is ensuring that the community is OK with major changes going forward.
I completely agree, and it is great for OSRS. I’d rather appreciate what we have rather than lament what we don’t, as we survey almost all of our updates and Beta a fair amount, among other things. It’s easy to look at OSRS as it has a very absolute polling system, and they are very much neighbours to RS, but I think it would be a mistake to go in a direction of referendums on all updates