Community Poll: Puffer Jackets

[Spyritdragon]

For the sake of developer sanity we're not going to revisit design decisions based upon the results of informal community polling. This has been policy for the entire lifetime of the project and will continue to be the case here. There does not exist a mechanism to compel action from us like you seem to be looking for in this particular situation.

It's our mistake that this was not communicated earlier in the thread and I do apologize for whatever expectations that inadvertently created.

I never meant to try to 'force' action, so to speak - it would simply be nice given that we have an overwhelmingly popular piece of content here, to at least have an insight into why the decision was made, especially in light of any desire to contribute in the future, so I know what there is even a point in trying to bring arguments forth for and what not. 

From my perception, the initial decision, as stated on github as a 'for now', was just a way to be able to have the PR still go through while still figuring out what would eventually be done with it. Honestly, the main discussion seemed to be about where they should be obtainable - as medals vs in the dispensers - with very little talk about 'Should these be seasonal'. And then now that we've arrive at the point of them leaving the game again, it's suddenly a done deal despite (what seems to me, at least!) some pretty sensible arguments being brought up - that's mostly what's somewhat frustrating me. It feels like the earlier decision was made pretty rushed, and I never felt like we were really in a place where this was something in favour of which we could bring up our points.

If you say 'This is our project, and the answer is simply 'We decide what we feel is nice in the game' (potentially taking into account feedback from the forums and github)', then that's fair and perfectly your prerogative too! But it would be nice to know that, in turn. As an open source project that anyone can contribute to, and which I've been hoping to learn to contribute to as well, it'd be nice to know what exactly the basis is for something being considered a positive addition or not.