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Author: | Shane [ March 25th, 2015, 10:14 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Why Power to the Players is doomed to fail |
Well said! That aside, I like the shade of green for the Farming cape. I'm happy the way the shoulders were updated. Everything else looks more minimal which isn't exactly the best thing for a 99 cape. I voted to tidy up and use the new icons (I think, it was either this or the old icons). The cape still doesn't bend properly and there are also a few clipping issues with some poses that I have seen. While I don't think it's worth offering a toggle back to the old version I think there are issues with this cape. Now that's my opinion on the cape itself. 85% and 66% are overwhelming majorities. Pictures were available for the second vote, there's no reason people who voted for the re-designed cape should be upset. Now speaking a moment on the design, the design of the cape was done in a way that wasn't exactly accessible. The designed cape that we got was based on a survey through their forums. This forum topic was discussed on Update, it was also (if I recall) mentioned at the bottom of a news posting. Before this week I didn't know there was a way to do a multi option poll but there is. Jagex could have devoted a week and ran 3 polls (Dragonstone, diamond, and ruby) to talk about the back, front, and icon with multiple options. They did not, they instead elected to go with a forum topic which requires significantly more user interaction. This results in those who don't really care skipping out on participating, in game polls would have been better. At this point either leave the capes as is or go back and re-run the design phase using the in game voting system. By choosing to provide a toggle option for these capes Jagex is as you say, "mollycoddling the Generation Me crowd". By doing this they show that when it comes to Player Power and game decisions in general they portray that they have no backbone and are unwilling to divide the community on the simplest of matters. They're not doing themselves any favours for updates in the future whether they be from Player Power or from Jagex's internal design process. There will always, always, be the hope of having a toggle for an update that a minority of the community simply did not like. Now a question that I want answered: Would the community reaction to the cape design have been the same if Jagex had decided to keep the design of the reworked cape internal rather than using the forums? (Yes / No) Secondly: If this had been the design of the skill capes when they were first released (ever) would the design have been acceptable? (Yes / No) I could speak more onto why they're heading off in this direction but I don't think that would be productive in the case of this update. |
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