Bugs get buried under general player gripes due to bugs & feedback being handled as a popularity contest
Gameplay bugs/issues need to be recorded independently from general feedback for application improvement. In the first place, voting for what to work on is ridiculous - you're not children; manage your own workflows and don't just outsource it to your player base.
Secondly, by storing these together gameplay bugs are forced to compete against UI improvements, which is nonsense. You're a mature, out-of-beta application. Fix your bugs! "I was issued a game loss due to a bug" shouldn't be competing (and losing by thousands of votes) against "something something shuffler algorithm." These are two totally separate concerns and the former is a genuine issue while the latter is a subjective quality-of-life modification.
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YourPalAtlas#50635
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@Johnny Demonic, problem with asking users to search for similar bugs/feedback here is that they get buried because there are just too many unrelated entries coming up in the search due to all feedback of every kind being put into a single bucket.
I do try to search before posting suggestions, but I almost never find anything related because I get nothing but bugs in the search.
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Johnny Demonic
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Players can also help this process by doing some research on their games before reporting these matters as bugs. As a result, true bugs get lost in the chaff of “Why-did-I-lose?” posts. Also, since there is a voting mechanism, players should search for existing bug reports before reporting a new one, and vote/comment under the existing one.