User blog comment:Blitz Action/Retaking Toto/@comment-4237253-20120725233112/@comment-24174486-20120726021711

"You can write whatever you want, but if you completely ignore the fans/customers, why are you even writing? Why bother getting something published if you wrote it for you alone?"

A good storyteller tells the story that they want to tell, that they care about telling. If a storyteller tells the story that others want to hear but they don't want to tell, then it will not have passion, and passion is everything when it comes to art.

"If you aren't willing to make any sacrifices or at least listen to your customer, what's the point of making the product?"

That ignores two problems with changing the product:

1.) That there are people who like the product as it is. By changing the product, you're going to anger the people who liked the product as it is, as you're telling them that people who don't like it are more important than those who do like it.

2.) People who won't be satisfied with the change you decide for the product. If several different groups each want vastly different things from the product, then there's no way to please everyone.  Changing the product would likely lose you more than you gain.