Quote Originally Posted by Potyhoty View Post
*facepalm* No, no, no. The forums are a very small sample size with, like I said, a HUGE self-selection bias. Any pollster worth their salt would NOT draw conclusions based on a poll that covered even 10% of the player base, to say nothing of the other methodological problems involved. Not to mention that there's no confidence interval or anything. Really careless. Please learn some stats or at least experimental design before you start shooting off at the mouth about that.

Yeah, FFXIII-2 is a sign of decay. There was also a recession and a tsunami, which would have had their long-term effects too. Deciding that this is all about "not listening to the customer" is fundamentally arrogant and misguided. Not saying it's a bad theory, but CONCLUDING IT based on this fragmentary evidence is a bad idea.
So basically..... until SE shuts down the servers followed by a a mass firing of all Final Fantasy related staff members, and a formal apology citing their failure to listen to the wants of the customer base, backed up with their own statistics, and and pie chart for visual aid, you won't believe that the player base is pissed.

That's cool. Being as you have no statistical evidence to support your theory, and you are making statistical accuracy the point that you are arguing so vehemently in a forum almost entirely dedicated to how pissed people are... I'm gonna have to take everything you say as an attempt to provide misinformation. Just because people don't post on a forum doesn't mean that they don't feel the same way as the forum posters. Your attempting to make everyone believe that every person who does not post feels the same way that you do. However you don't represent the player base any more than the angry people do. Your argument is null and void.