If SCI Won’t Ask the Question, Then They’re Choosing Not to Hear the Answer
At this point, this isn’t about Poe’s survey.
It’s about whether Steel City Interactive actually wants to listen to boxing fans at all.
When a community member takes the time to build a serious, thoughtful, realism-focused boxing game survey, and the studio refuses to endorse it, that’s fine. A developer has every right to stay neutral. But neutrality comes with responsibility.
If SCI won’t back a community survey, they are obligated to run their own.
Because right now, what fans are hearing is silence.
And silence sends a message.
It says:
“We already know what you want.”
“Your feedback is anecdotal, not actionable.”
“We’ve decided the direction—now adapt to it.”
That’s not how you build trust with a sports community that lives and breathes detail, authenticity, and long-term depth.
Boxing fans are not casual by nature. This isn’t an annual arcade release. This is a sport built on nuance, foot placement, fatigue, ring IQ, clinch tactics, era differences, rule variations, and psychology. The people still here, still arguing mechanics, still modding, still writing realism essays?
Those are not drive-by players.
Yet without an official survey, SCI can continue to frame hardcore feedback as “vocal minorities” while quietly designing toward a lowest-common-denominator experience.
That’s not data.
That’s avoidance.
An official SCI survey would do three critical things immediately:
Prove who the real audience is
Not who’s loudest on Twitter. Not who plays for a weekend. But who actually wants to invest hundreds of hours into a boxing game.End the realism vs casual guessing game
Optional systems exist for a reason. A survey would show how many players want sim depth as an option, not a forced default.Restore credibility
You don’t rebuild trust with patch notes alone. You rebuild it by asking uncomfortable questions—and being willing to see the answers.
If SCI truly believes its current direction is correct, a survey will confirm it.
If they’re wrong, a survey will save them years of misaligned development.
Refusing to endorse a community survey is understandable.
Refusing to replace it with an official one is not.
This community doesn’t want control.
It wants acknowledgment.
It wants to be counted.
Ask the question.
Publish the results.
Build the game with boxing fans, not despite them.
Because if SCI won’t ask, the conclusion becomes unavoidable:
They’re not afraid of the answers.
They’re afraid of what the answers might demand.
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