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While there was indeed a majority in the poll I personally don't think it should be implemented based on a single poll alone. As you can see the poll didn't pass by much. Imo polls for subjects like this should have a minimum of 75%. Also, the poll might have passed but they are under no obligation to follow that either. Polls are just for getting a rough idea of how the playerbase feels about something. As proven by this thread and various others there is quite a bit of differance of opinion on the matter.
Exactly. Plus I'd like to talk about something that I don't think has been considered before: when people are voting for stuff like this in the polls, the players voting in favor of the change/new stuff, typically do so because they think there's no downside to them personally for voting yes, so they're "might as well" voting in favor. Those said players are already playing though, so they're clearly happy about the state of the game as it is, and consequently they wouldn't really mind that much if the poll did not pass, continuing to play as normal.
On the other hand, the players voting against the change/new stuff, do so because they think it would harm the game; these players are likely happy with the current state of the game as well, but if the poll in which they voted against passed, that could ruin the game experience for them, causing them to quit.
So for example, if we look at the holiday item loyalty point poll, the 59% players voting in favor very likely continued to play after the poll closed and nothing happened, because they already were happily playing, while the 41% players voting against very likely would have had some of the players quitting, because a change they did not want was done.
That, along with ensuring that there really is a clear overwhelming majority in favor of the change/addition, is why Jagex chose wisely to implement a 75% yes threshold. > )
