The community will come to a consensus around what is most valuable to us- we will pay you to allocate devs to our most-needed features/fixes.
lol hehe thats a great joke 
Commercializing a forum is the best way to destroy a product, as people with specific purposes and budget will just take over the feature requests and re-focus development on their needs.
Well basically thats what MS lets their large customers do and MS is one of the worlds largest heatsinks of money and dev resources of the last decade.
Why not introdce lobbying groups and superpacs?
