People need to make a decision. Do they want an exclusive (to the point of dead) game that very little people play yet holds to their arbitrary ideas of what makes a good game (basically all the popular games aren't doing it), or do they want a game that can attract a wide audience and actually have a hope of surviving 1 year into the future.

There is something to be said for the ol "10,000,000 flies can't be wrong!" argument, yet threads like this make me think that any degree of popularity would be seen as a failure to some people.