NessOnett wrote:Jumping out of planes(Skydiving) is fun. People pay thousands of dollars to do it on a regular basis because it's fun. If it wasn't fun, nobody would be willing to pay so much to do it. But a lot of people are scared, lazy, poor, etc. And therefore don't do it. And in this context, those people would rate it as "I'm sleeping" because it's "not for them"...not because it's "not fun."
So you can get a situation where "Watching Paint Dry" is more "fun" than "Skydiving." Which, if were true, would mean that the Skydiving industry wouldn't exist. As nobody would pay so much to do something so much less fun than something free. My point was that the basis of the survey and the options given were very flawed.
Man I was writing my whole reply then other people filled in the same questions. So I'm not ganging up on you, I just don't want my effort to go to waste!
If lots of people who have never played Beogh in fact decided to vote him down for some reason that would in fact distort the poll, but here in the comments several of us are lining up to say that we've played and won games with Beogh and still voted him low. We're not the people who were too scared or poor to go skydiving, we
did and we
didn't enjoy it compared to other activities.
I don't have any objection to there being niche gods and I bet Beogh is here to stay due to his unique flavor and interaction with the orcish race. But the "jesus fucking christ" is because here we've got this silly obviously subjective poll and you're getting mad that your pet favorite is unpopular and telling us we must be doing it wrong. "Well thought out and presented logically" - man, the best I can get from your skydiving analogy is that since some set of players exists who enjoy Beogh, we must all recognize that Beogh is objectively fun and vote accordingly? Despite that the whole point of the poll is to figure out how big that set is? And that (admittedly less than rigorous) results seem to indicate that it's in fact quite small? The question
is "do you like this god?" unless "fun" is some sort of sacred concept that transcends the aggregation of individual preferences, and if you think that you're going to have to fill me in on the actual rules of "fun" because I'm having a hell of a time understanding how we're supposed to vote to make this poll more accurately reflect "fun" other than by giving the answer that you want us to give.
edit: things that are *actually* wrong with the survey:
-well, we don't even know how big the sample size is or how well it reflects the player base
-i'm not even totally sure how the numbers get translated into the different ranks that Klown put them in, though i think he's just taking the most popular option for each one?
-no idea how that site enforces voting limits, or anything
so if devs were actually looking at this poll and saying "ok time to remove Beogh" - which they aren't - you could say "wait a second that's a silly fucking poll" but you're going on about how we don't understand fun properly or something?