Quote Originally Posted by Ayanno View Post
You kinda shoot your argument, right or wrong, in the foot right from the start with the bolded portion.
That one word aside, he does have a point. There's a good measure of perceptual bias involved in using something like the number of complaint threads (or even the number of responses and/or "likes" on those threads) on the official forums as proof that the devs are doing something wrong. The fact that there's more complaint threads isn't necessarily indicative of some fundamental flaw with the expansion or even that people are generally unsatisfied with it. It could simply be because we have more players now than we did before Heavensward. A larger playerbase means there's more people to potentially dislike something and complain about it. Not to mention, the forums don't represent the majority of the populace, as typically only a small portion of an MMO's playerbase actually uses the official forums. You can't discount the fact that people don't typically speak up when they're happy with something, either. When people are happy with a product or service, they usually just enjoy it. Few go out of their way to give kudos to the devs for things they like, but if they dislike something, they're apt to speak up.

Food for thought, in any case. :3