Quote Originally Posted by Arcon View Post
You mentioned it, declining player numbers. I will reiterate again, that evidence is not proof. I feel that point slipped through my last post unnoticed, so I'll try to be more specific this time, and apologize in advance for the boring explanation. Evidence are facts that relate to the issue at hand, if they corroborate the hypothesis, then it's evidence for it, if they don't, then it's evidence against it. But either way, it's just an indication, and once it's been presented, it's up for interpretation. One interpretational argument against it would be the one you mentioned, that it's been the same way since the start (although mean people could ask you for evidence for that argument, but I'm not mean, so I won't). One interpretational argument for it would be that releasing expansions should always halt declining players at least for a while, whereas Abyssea did nothing to stop that. Evidence for that includes the fact that less than three months after the release of its third installment (less than one year after the first), the global numbers were down significantly and another server merge was announced. Now, again, that is up for interpretation. Would that have happened without Abyssea as well?

You get the idea, the evidence corroborating the hypothesis is there, whether it's correlated as well is up for debate. Yet, I can find no evidence for the contrary. Only personal reports of people, and those aren't facts. If the number of reports represented a significant majority, then it would be different (by that I mean of all the players), but only SE has the power to find that out, for example through another poll. Although at this point it would be hardly relevant, because it would be skewed towards people favoring Abyssea by default, as the people who were unpleased with it the most have quit already.
Um... wtf are you on about? I'm not quite sure who you're arguing against but the facts are these.... People are quitting, nobody knows why because SE haven't done a survey nor ask for one when you decide to leave. Abyssea is an expansion that changed how the game works. Due to the existence of a little thing called assumption, people assume that because Abyssea changed the game a lot, that's the cause for people leaving when in reality it could be an entirely different reason and most likely is. Also this post was about devs not listening.... since when did that involve Abyssea and since when did it become yet another Abyssea blaming session?