Dudes (and dudettes), don't forget the Ideas & Suggestions sub-forum !

I doubt most game companies are taking specific ideas from internet posts.

Giving detailed suggestions to game developers may accomplish the complete opposite effect: they’ll try to move far away from your idea to avoid being accused of stealing it. Thus, specific suggestion in fact hurt your chances of seeing what you want get into the game.

Check out this recent post by Harada, the game director for Tekken (one of the highest selling fighting game franchises), where he says this explicitly:

In this post, he tells fans to stop giving them ideas. Other replies have chimed in; one said he emailed Ubisoft ideas and they responded to him saying they explicitly try to avoid user ideas for that very reason.
Firaxis did take quite a few ideas from The List for Civ3 and The List for Civ4 made by us on Apolyton, back in the days though. The List for Civ3 had some ideas implemented in Civ4 and going forwards, for as we all know by now, ideas given after a title is released is likely too late for the next iteration. But not the next.
 
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