Is this really the best way to track game feedback?

Hi devs,

if you're really planning on tracking player feedback over the course of a year, is this forum really going to be your primary tool for feedback? Forums give you very little in terms of metrics around the importance to your player base of certain suggestions. Tools like GetSatisfaction and UserVoice (I'm sure there are others) allow us as users to spot existing ideas that we were about to post and "vote" on them, pushing the most popular suggestions to the top of the list. Think of this in terms of how Reddit works, you have a number that allows you to gauge the popularity of certain posts, making your life planning the community-driven portion of the roadmap easier to manage.

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Example: I would like a minimap included for the game. Instead of me, and perhaps 10 other people creating new posts talking about how we want minimaps, 1 person would post the idea, and the following users would simply "vote up" the idea instead of posting the same idea again and as devs, you would now have a number associated to that suggestion that represents the portion of your playerbase that thinks that idea is a good idea.

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Broskiier I totally agree with you here. I work as a product designer for an online service and we gather feedback in all kinds of ways, but imagining it would be given to us in a form of a forum like this. Ouch, I would not be thrilled. Maintainability hell.

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There is: http://www.reddit.com/r/Offworld/ and I know at least one developer who reads it regularly and I'm sure others likely check in. The official forums should probably have a few more subsections for the sake of organization since theres been a ton of repetition.

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