Recent content by Felice

I don't think the issue is small. I just think the sample size is small, by which I mean the number of people effectively being surveyed by reading forum threads is small relative to the total player base and thus can't be relied on as a representative sample leaning in one direction or the other.

Using an invalid sample because it's your only sample isn't good reasoning. Better, perhaps, would be for TFP to put a survey into the game itself so that controversial subjects could be queried across the userbase to get simple opinions like "I hate it, it's just annoying and tedious" vs...

I agree. I'm not saying the other opinion is necessarily correct either. I'm just saying that a vocal minority isn't sufficient to make a representative sample.

At one studio I worked for, they told us, repeatedly, that "You are not the player!" i.e. that we didn't play games the way typical gamers do, we don't need tutorials the way neophytes do, we don't stare dumbfounded at confusing UIs the way laypeople do, we don't struggle to learn how best to...

How many? Dozens? Hundreds? Versus how many people actually play 7DTD? Vocal minorities are the enemy of fun gameplay for the majority in every ongoing game project I've ever seen. Every single one.

Uh, it's 8km square, not 8km radius. The area of a square is edge x edge, e.g. 8km*8km = 64km²