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However, I still say that the existence od these holes do not, in themselves, say that Markus doesn't listen to the user base. Markus listens to the wave of input--and it is a wave--and picks things to implement that [in no particular order] (1) he's interested in or likes, (2) he knows how to do, and (3) are being asked for by the greatest volume, and (4) he's got time for.
Some times he uses beta testers as a priority sounding board. Others he makes the calls himself. So I stand by the statement that I don't think Markus has any issue in listening to the user base. I think he listens to too many of the user base (spreads himself too thin trying to appease everyone a little) and occasionally weights the desires of the "wrong" set of users too highly (a statement that I fully admit carries my own personal biases to what I want the game to be).
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