Early Access program participation:

Here's a list of every change they've made in response to community feedback I know of:

1. got rid of all the clicking needed to collect belief by changing it to click + drag 

This is difficult to quantify. Over the last three years, and particularly early on, 22Cans received LOADS of feedback from hundreds of different people, so inevitably a lot of it was contradictory and inconsistent. You could point to any element of the game and 22Cans would be able to find some old email or forum post where somebody said they wanted it.

I remember there was a fairly epic thread on the Steam forums where someone from 22Cans condescended to ask for the community's opinion on how trees should operate in Godus. The two most prevalent pieces of feedback were: trees should grow naturally, and followers should chop down trees. Neither of these things happened. There was also a bunch of other stuff about trees providing bonuses to settlements, but I think they already did that (or it was at least alredy in the pipeline). There was a level of incredulity that of all things we were being asked about TREES, and also that 22Cans had gone into this project without some existing notion of how trees work.

A few things that have been improved, presumably in response to user feedback:
- Sculpting is now a bit smoother than it was in 1.3
- Belief collection is less onerous (you can click and swipe instead of click-click-clicking, as Greay said)
- Building on higher levels gives you more belief (I think) reducing the temptation to flatten everything (though this was more severely curtailed by the extortionate belief cost of sculpting and the need to unlock higher tiers, which was requested by nobody)

There have been changes but what has been done has been done begrudgingly.

What was amusing was what was taken away e.g. The ability to dig, wolves, ethnicities, the giant head, etc. counter to feedback they increased timers from 2.0 and they made it much harder to sculpt. When we complained about finding cards on chests they gave us stickers. Before stickers were even implemented we said no to stickers but they foisted them on us anyway.

You could argue the Astari were implemented in response to feedback since we wanted a challenge and a threat. The problem is peter himself said they dropped them in 2 weeks before a major release and you can tell. I think peter himself claimed to have had a epiphany but we had been banging on about this stuff for months. Ultimately the Astari were an epic fail.

The community managers (George and Matthew) always said they were dutifully summarising our feedback and sharing it with the team. As is the case today they couldn't/wouldn't tell us much about the development so I and other people asked to see the reports they were giving peter from the forums. Obviously this would have taken no work since they were already prepared but they never acknowledged that suggestion that I recall. Like now the CMs picked and chose what questions they responded too unless you made a lot of noise in which case you got some attention. It's no wonder we are badly behaved with that kind of conditioning. Anyway I have no idea what the reports that had our feedback in them looked like, how they were used or whether peter read them or filed them in the trash. Maybe George or Matthew would like to enlighten us?

I hope this doesn't come off as bitchy. I'm trying to explain history not give these guys a hard time. What I imagine happened is George in particular worked really quite hard to collate feedback only to find it couldn't be reconciled with peters vision. Much like Fabs and peter, the community and peter were going in very different directions. I miss George, there were things about his reign I objected too, but in hindsight I can see he tried really hard to be a good community manager, it's just a shame peter wasn't interested in mending that relationship.

Let's not drag that particular topic into every conversation please.

I hope you're not offended. It's perfectly fine to have that discussion but seeing as there is already a thread on that topic counting about 10 pages I think it's best to add to that instead of on this thread.

You know what would be great? If someone @ 22cans would answer this – i.e., what changes have been made to the game based on player feedback. And what happened to all the collated feedback the CMs (supposedly) put together.

... not holding my breath, though.

Added collection shrines? I know there was a big request for those and they appeared.

Dave claimed they moved sculpting to a menu as requested, personally that is the worst move they made and I reckon it was a test to see if they can gem it for mobile.

I guess. Pit of doom was added to PC when we complained about getting gems but was really an after thought.

settlements revamp was apparently listening to feedback although I liked the old settlements, they should of added squishing to that not replaced it.

Peter claimed the Astari was a moment of inspiration but the community had been complaining about no in game challenges for a while before they appeared.

so above a obviously tenuous in telationship to your post but for want of a 22caner to clarify those are some I thought of.