It's past time to expand the dev team

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...even the small minority of high end ultimate raiders is no longer truly "small" in the grand scheme of things. The game is estimated to have had 3 million active players this month, and even if ultimate raiders are within the range of 1-5% of the playerbase, that's still a LOT of people.

The individual number of people isn't important. It's the percentage that's important, and you've laid out that data right there. I agree with your estimates.

If the playerbase is 100 folks, you cater to the 96.
If the playerbase is a million folks, you cater to the 960,000.
If the playerbase is a billion folks, you cater to the 960,000,000.

Catering to the minority doesn't become easier or more desirable (from a business standpoint) as the player base expands. Remember, for every 100 people that come onboard, your goal is to appease 96 of them. It doesn't matter if 100 new people come onboard once, twice, a hundred times or eight million times; for every 100 there are 96 to please, and four that simply will remain unsatisfied.

Pleasing 95% or more of your audience with any form of subjective entertainment is an admirable accomplishment. Aiming to please more than that becomes an exercise in futility. Line up 100 folks that have seen 'Citizen Kane', and at least five will tell you it wasn't all that great despite its place in film history. That's OK, that's life, and you can't please everyone.

I'm not disagreeing with your point; more content is always better in a general sense. The only thing I disagree with is that the increased resources from the increased player base would be best used to appease some ~3% of players. It'd be better to make the ninety-seven folks happy instead of the three.

"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. Or the one." -- Mr. Spock

Yeah I am that much of a nerd that I just quoted Spock. Life goals and such and such. LOL.