DragonCon Smite Q&A

Before I go through 1 by 1 and discuss the logical nonsense you're using, I'd like to remind you that all I was really pointing out is that it is unreasonable to imply that they're just pushing blame onto the players... but you decided to try and bring up arguing points that hold no ground...

Now, let's get to it.

They haven't made any fruit cookies yet- there are no fat or muscular goddesses in the game yet.

But there are muscular males in the game. You're trying to argue that, even though it holds true with the male gods, the female gods could have the exact opposite effect on the community so they should try it, regardless of statistical knowledge to the contrary.

This is the opposite of common sense. There is no need to take a risk that, statistically speaking, will probably not go well unless not doing so will hurt your business.

Which brings us to:

The community manager said that it's one of the more common requests that she gets, so there is a market there.

In this scenario, you're trying to imply that what the customer wants and what the customer base wants is the same thing. Also, you're trying to imply that what the customer wants and what the customer actually will react well to are also different.

The community manager probably gets a ton of requests, just like they probably get a ton of feedback about abilities that sounds really cool but would completely unbalance the game... just because a bunch of people want something doesn't mean it will work out well.

Sometimes the popular opinion isn't the right one. Which actually flows well into the idea that, since the community manager said it's a common request, that it must be a popular opinion. It's about perspective. If the CM gets 100,000 requests per month from a userbase of 10 million people, and 200 of them concern fat female characters while most other random ideas get 50 or so, then yes, it is a common request that represents a fraction of a fraction of the player base.

Not to mention the fact that people will play whoever is OP at the time, regardless of what they look like, so I don't buy your argument at all actually.

And in this case, you are statistically just plain wrong. People have different motivations for playing certain gods, and people have different perceptions of what makes a god OP.

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