Enough is enough

[Abysia]

Does this guy think he speaks for the majority? He claims to.

[zataz]

i said it before ill say it again the inmates should NEVER run the asylum.

[Volkai]

{I} WANT DIRECT COMMUNICATION ON A FREQUENT BASIS WITH THE DEV TEAM

Learn Japanese. Communicate directly with the Dev Team in a language they speak (and read and write) fluently.

If you're dissatisfied with the Community Team's current efforts and unwilling to learn Japanese yourself, either act positively to enhance their capability or hire your own translator to facilitate your no-longer-direct-because-you're-going-through-a-translator communication on a frequent basis with the dev team.

[katiekat]

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.

ok sins you want to be Mr fancy with your terms i am ging to ex plane how your logic is wrong

what you are doing is what is known as " "Post hoc, ergo propter hoc" for thos that for thos know what that means "
Post hoc, ergo propter hoc is a Latin phrase for "after this, therefore, because of this." The term refers to a rhetorical fallacy that because two events occurred in succession, the former event caused the latter event.[1][2]

In addressing a post hoc, ergo propter hoc argument, it is important to recognise that correlation does not equal causation."


in other words just because people left after Abyssea does not mean it was why and to say it it sajests it is to use false logic

[Arcon]

ok sins you want to be Mr fancy with your terms i am ging to ex plane how your logic is wrong [..]

Duuuuuuuh.