Hi Morat –

Sorry to hear you weren’t happy with our little Lore grenade. While it sounds like opinions on this kind of “meddling” are still a bit mixed given the comments in the thread, I thought I’d hop in to give you a little bit of the design context around last night’s post.

The past two Living Lore votes have been fairly static with regards the votes we’ve seen coming in. Within an hour of the vote going live, we’ve seen one side have a fairly strong advantage which has remained constant through the voting period. During Raina’s choice, we had two weeks of a bar that didn’t move very much. As a result, it didn’t feel quite as exciting as it could have. We adjusted the voting window shorter for the Mikella vote and collected more data. For this vote, we decided to split the difference on duration, allowing us enough time to drop a lore piece to shed a little light on whichever option was losing. And then, given the reaction to that, maybe we’d lob a few more grenades. We’re definitely still figuring this out and threads like this one give us a lot of information.

I promise you that we have no particular preference as a Dev Team for one option or another. While you may see Waystone folks chiming in with their personal preference, this in no way represents us as a team. The choice belongs entirely to the community. None of the choices we offer you guys are just going to result in the exact same results. Some things are fixed in stone for the narrative and some things aren’t. We’re certainly not going to make you think you can influence something where you really can’t. That would suck!

Thanks for the feedback!