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Originally Posted by MooreteP

I disagree.

Depending on the Forum or thread, there are representatives of all aspects of FIRST on CD.
There is no barrier or requirement to join or post. (click here to watch Anchorman 2 )

These comments are anecdotal at best and the plural of anecdote is not data.

It's a pretty safe assumption (in fact, overwhelmingly so) that the people who post on Chief Delphi are not a representative sample of the FRC community as a whole.

I'm pretty sure you can think of a number of selection biases which don't involve an explicit barrier or requirement to post.

Originally Posted by Jengles

So, this may be a complete misinterpretation, are you saying that the FIRST community and GDC do not care or consider the opinions of CD?

Actually, given the relatively small size of the community here c.f. the entirety of FRC, and the fact (AFAIK) that CD is not officially endorsed by FIRST, I'd guess this probably isn't so far from the truth. I would be mightily surprised if the GDC gave much weight at all to "reactions on CD" (at least, in isolation) in their evaluation of what makes a good game.