Quote Originally Posted by Grizzlebeard View Post
In my experience, only people who care enough about the game post on the forums. Of the people who post on here expressing their dissatisfaction and hopes for improvements there will be many more who aren't aware of the forums, don't want to subject themselves to the vitriol and bickering of gaming forums in general, or simply don't care enough to post on them. They'll just unsubscribe and proceed to tell their friends, "That game was garbage!". I know of at least four rl friends who've done this. Path of least resistance and all that.
The squeaky wheel gets the grease, and there are a lot of squeaky wheels here. Just look at the servers represented: there are 5 times as many non-legacy servers as legacy servers, but looking up the page, we have 28 of the last 70 posts from legacy servers. 40% of posts representing 20% of players. The selection bias isn't exactly unpredictable. That's not to say that complaints aren't valid, but all of those players who haven't finished everything already aren't going to be here on the forums defending SE from something they yet know nothing about. We are all the vocal minority, which is why the troll above pulled the bandwagon card in the first place.