Poll results - 51 responses
I will preface this with I AM NOT A DATA ANALYST, I slept through all my formal data analysis courses so interpret these numbers how you will. Also a big
for anyone that filled out the form, thank you!
The participators
Out of 51 responses 68,6% would participate in a system like the one I described in the poll. Of those 68,6% people that would participate 62,9% wouldn't mind having a phone attached to the account as an extra verification step. Also the people that would participate were generally in favor of having it be open sourced with a majority of 54,3% however 28,6% of them would prefer it to remain closed source.
The participators were a lot less vocal with only some feedback here and there (and some praises I left out😳). This group approved of the idea but desired official support. A couple quotes:
pitch it to the devs instead of making it only for your server.
I like the idea even if the details are subject to change. A solution needs to be implemented regardless
Nice idea as long as it remains open source so the mb2 community can verify their data isn't being collected.
As a fellow server owner for MB2 I highly like this idea and hope it has success to help counter some of MB2s biggest issues.
The naysayers
31,4% did not want to participate in such a system. This group was a lot more vocal and had more colorful words than the participators. They raised some valid criticism regarding the safety, technical complexity and trouble of using such a system. A fair amount of this group would only accept an official implementation. A few of them also were afraid this system would shatter the anonymity they enjoy in the mod. A couple quotes:
If anything this is an idea that mb2 devs should implement themselves, not a random autist
Although it's annoying to see trolls and tryhards aliasing all the time, people like to be anonymous. [...] Some people will see this anonymous free-reign messaging as mb2's glue, or its poison. It's hard to say how the community will react to this (my guess is they'll deal with it), so maybe you could test it for a few weeks and see what happens.
I don't think it would work simply because atleast 50% of EU playerbase are trolls and this server might just end like BG. The Idea is good but I think the devs would have to implement something like that for the MB2 launcher because this method also sounds annoying.
I would only support launcher based login (Official support only)
I get the idea behind it, but as someone who's not very tech savvy, and I'd guess others would be too, it's kind of inconvenient. I have 5 friends I introduced to the game and had to step by step help them download the mod, with each of them ending up having different issues. Point I'm making is that this will hinder new players easily accessing the game. At the same time, I get what you're trying to do. Maybe if their was a way to communicate with the MB dev team and try to come up with an easy tutorial on it possibly. Other issue I can think of is hackers or griefers simply making new accounts
Hassle
In the poll I also asked how annoying it would be to have to login every time you start a play session. Interestingly 62,8% of respondents found it not annoying to do which is less than the amount that would participate (< 68,6). This tells me that I should focus on decreasing the amount of manual actions necessary to login. I already have some idea's in the works for this but I guess we'll have to see.
What's next?
I'll be quietly working on this for a while with no ETA given and no promises made. That said I will probably go through with it for a week or so and gauge the communities reaction and adjust accordingly. Thank you all for your time and I will hopefully see you all in-game 😳
