New Live Letter: YoshiP Comments on Housing Prices

[frostmagemari]

The thread has over 2k likes.
That's proof enough people hate this BS. [I'm sure everyone from everywhere went ahead and liked the post too.]

I can't stand these White Knight's anymore.
Yoshi can do no wrong, ever. With the little time we had to make cash, even 1.0 players can't afford it.
Those who wanted to go solo, well that's out the air.
This is what happens when you have RMT's acting like they own the damn place.
Patch should be called: Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm for RMT's to go friggin' wild because
this is a perfect patch.

-SE and RMT's shaking hands.gif;

Count to ten and breathe, again like it or not 2k is a minority when you consider how many are playing now before you go sprouting that phrase which i'm sure most of you are using incorrectly i don't agree with the prices but getting your hopes up over 2k people liking a thread well your setting yourself up for disappointment.

Actually, chances are it's not a minority. The normal breakdown for game population vs active forum members is usually a 90:10 ratio (or 70:30 depending on the study); Meaning that for every person actively complaining or contributing to the thread, there is a large number of people either lurking or simply not visiting the forums, and when you consider how frustrating this forum is to deal with (with content limits and limits on thread creations/replies), there is likely a very large population that will never set foot in here.

[Hanabira]

Actually, chances are it's not a minority. The normal breakdown for game population vs active forum members is usually a 90:10 ratio; Meaning that for every person actively complaining or contributing to the thread, there is a large number of people either lurking or simply not visiting the forums, and when you consider how frustrating this forum is to deal with (with content limits and limits on thread creations/replies), there is likely a very large population that will never set foot in here.

You also have to consider the possibility that the 90:10 ratio isnt equal in this case. Im willing to bet that more people with stuff to complain about are vocal on the forums than not. Its like product reviews, not many people think to give a positive review when everything works fine, but if its broken,they'll go out of their way to complain about it. it makes it seem like a minority is a majority.

as seen by the PS4 launch, amazon had like 30% negative reviews for malfunctioning systems. That doesnt mean 30% of the total were broken, just that those with working machines were too busy playing to be on amazon

[frostmagemari]

You also have to consider the possibility that the 90:10 ratio isnt equal in this case. Im willing to bet that more people with stuff to complain about are vocal on the forums than not. Its like product reviews, not many people think to give a positive review when everything works fine, but if its broken,they'll go out of their way to complain about it. it makes it seem like a minority is a majority.

as seen by the PS4 launch, amazon had like 30% negative reviews for malfunctioning systems. That doesnt mean 30% of the total were broken, just that those with working machines were too busy playing to be on amazon

It could very well be like that, i wasn't trying to say that everyone who isn't posting is probably unhappy as well. I was just meaning that you can't discount the forum activity just because a thread has a "small" number of likes, since we haven't (and will never) hear from a vast majority of the player-base.