Should just lock these types of threads... You can't tell anyone the game is bad on a diablo fans website mk?
What I can't figure out is what someone who is admittedly through with Blizzard is doing on a fan site dedicated to a Blizzard game in the first place.
It is interesting how people understand the same information differently.
When I made the post I was more surprised than anything. Granted, I still don't feel this is a mature enough product, but I play the game and have fun with it. Not leaving or anything, but was quite alarmed with the graphic, that is all.
Just wanted to post this to those saying I was trolling a fan site. That was not my idea.
Part of it, I believe, was the content of your accompanying post that seemed to imply the graph was correct (see: Blizzard pushing out patches so fast? [to prevent more player loss]), rather than just something to think about.
And while interesting how people understand things differently, it becomes increasingly less interesting (and more frustrating) when it's apparent that the understanding is born out of ignorance of either the presenter of the information (not you, but the creator of the graphic and "story") or/and the person interpreting it.
It's one thing to have an opinion on the game, it's another entirely to present as fact information that is either unconfirmed, or skewed in such a way that it creates a false reality (like claiming the game is dead or dying because xfire lost users or Amazon is no longer selling 100,000 copies a day).
Seriously, if I have to explain to anyone the flaw in these stats........
Just a quick statistical tidbit. Accurate surveys are not based on total population percentage but statistical formulas. Therefore a sample size of 100,000 is more than enough, overkill even, to gauge the trend of a 7,000,000 person population depending on confidence intervals and what not.
That would also assuming the statistic being used is accurate in the first place. Xfire is hardly a great source for getting any idea on anything,
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Part of it, I believe, was the content of your accompanying post that seemed to imply the graph was correct (see: Blizzard pushing out patches so fast? [to prevent more player loss]), rather than just something to think about.
And while interesting how people understand things differently, it becomes increasingly less interesting (and more frustrating) when it's apparent that the understanding is born out of ignorance of either the presenter of the information (not you, but the creator of the graphic and "story") or/and the person interpreting it.
It's one thing to have an opinion on the game, it's another entirely to present as fact information that is either unconfirmed, or skewed in such a way that it creates a false reality (like claiming the game is dead or dying because xfire lost users or Amazon is no longer selling 100,000 copies a day).
That would also assuming the statistic being used is accurate in the first place. Xfire is hardly a great source for getting any idea on anything,