Okay there are just a few things wrong with your idea.
1) Like Mammy said game development is an art. It is completely based on subjectivity and even the most minute things can have a great impact. Not to mention that if a great group of people don't like a game, it is because of various reasons. One aspect that is completely horrible to one group might be fantastic for another. Even when some aspects it is unanimous in that it is crap everyone has a different idea of making it better. You cannot make games that everyone likes.
2) Larger companies also have an exponential larger costs. Software design (and thus game design) is a labor intensive industry and not a material intensive industry. They need to pay a lot of people for something that you cannot even hold physically in your hands. They have to consider making high risk innovative projects that has to start the labor all from zero, or make income certain projects that have a lot of labor already done. Companies need to keep their heads floating. It is absolutely not the case that big companies have a lot of money in their bankaccounts. If they have one year then it is to compensate for the negative profits the next year. And if the income certain projects do not lead to certain income either they will scrap it as well. Take Guitar Hero for example. Even Nintendo decided not to paste the Mario franchise on everything anymore.
3) If you really don't like it you will not buy it. If you don't like the Wii's motion control, then don't buy the Wii. If you don't like CoD because there is no change then don't buy CoD. If you absolutely demand that Fifa, Madden and NHL updates its roster of players each year, than buy the games each year. As long as you buy, you make the statement that there is something about it that you still like.
Yes, I understand that. But when they do deny it then everyone who had me submit their opinion (which right now is 37 people and it hasn't even been up that long) will be VERY upset.
Wow 37 people. In a world with billions of people you need at least a 100 million people. If you are now already happy with 37 then you won't stand a chance.
Think about this for a second. A single guy claims to have spend hours upon hours of his time collecting the opinions of your company and it's industry from people around the world. Said guy claims to do this because he cares about the industry your company is a part of. Claimed "form fillers", AKA YOUR CUSTOMERS, also spend a good amount of time filling out said data.
Said guy claims to organize and send the data. Various companies, including yours, receive said data. Companies in your industry can then make a choice. Said choice doesn't just effect 1 thing, it effects 2. Said effects are 1) Telling the customers "that's nice but !@#$% you we don't care" and 2) customers knowing you only care about the money and not presenting a quality product. Said effects cause you to lose reputation -> customers -> profit.
So in conclusion it is best for your company to consider said data. If you don't then many of your customers will hate you and most likely just pirate your games rather than buy them due to an "if its !@#$% us then !@#$% you" attitude.
I think you are the one that has not thought this through. I fixed your post for you. Because look at it from a company's standpoint. Here is a guy claiming he has gathered oppinion of people, who claims that his report is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but th truth. He claims to have authentic forms of a remarkable number of people, which he cannot show because he either does not have them or he will go against the (inter)national statutes of privacy by submitting the data he got in confidence to third parties, making him an untrustworthy guy.
So unless you have the reputation of a good and trusted public opinion analyst or you work for a company that does professional public opinion analyses, the report that you will be lobbying is just as much worth as the paper it will be printed on. Without a reputation or a respectable background your word means nothing.
Oh and the work you will be doing won't be measured in 'hours', but in weeks, months or even years. Oh and big companies do gauge the public opinion through professional analyst companies, which do a lot of datamining from the internet. Even if it is just to save to keep their stock market shares up.
Oh yeah, I don't know who you are, nor do I know your reputation. You can claim a lot online, but I do not trust you with my data. You do not have the reputation of a professional.
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