Reading the recent discussions about Gambit made me think that there needs to be a better way of incorporating players’ concerns about too much nerfbat. If players have paid good money for a character, they should be able to be heard better, and they should have a better say in how a character is nerfed. Why not try a poll of various nerfing possibilities, and players can vote on the nerf ideas you have? Then we will have less of a feeling that you hear “nerf,” and then don’t listen to everyone after that. The poll should include whether the player has the character, and whether the player uses that character, for pve or pvp, and how much.
As I posted in a different thread, nerfings don’t really happen until they’ve squeezed every penny out of the character. Once the char isn’t generating revenue and the FtP players are getting it championed (or close to it), then they can safely nerf it and let the whales move on to the next game breaking character.
Should they run the poll in-game or in the forum?
Well I think the poll should be in the forum, with a notice given in game that a poll is up. The forum has a built in polling tool, whereas the game does not.