“Everything is amazing and no one is happy.”

[Breakbeat]

Most people playing this game are happy with the game.*

Visualize and conceptualize of the whole. Of all the millions of people playing this game globally.

Don't get stuck visualizing the whole based on forums. A mere pittance of the player base uses forums to communicate. Actually, a pittance of the player base communicates about it online at all.

Compare a "popular" reddit thread with 1,500 upvotes to the whole, all 36 million of us that are subscribed. Makes that Reddit thread not even statistically significant.

As a person who lived plenty of life before internet discussion and/or social media, this is one of my gripes with these things. People see a bandwagon and jump on it, regardless of how minor an issue might be in their personal experience. 2,000 angry folks on a Reddit post or a forum thread literally isn't even a significant indicator of how the majority feels.

But that's humans in 2022:

- 35,000,000 people do this thing.
- 2,000 people appear grossly unsatisfied
- In our infinite wisdom, "Everyone's angry about this thing!"

Nonsense. Show me an angry Reddit thread with 1.5 million upvotes (half of the daily player base) or a forum thread with 17,000,000 upvotes (half of the subscribed player base), and we could begin to talk about forming an educated opinion on "how people feel about this game."

See: social issues IRL as well. We do this same nonsense everywhere. 2 people complain about a thing, or a bad thing happens to three people and all of the sudden entire huge, sweeping section of how we normally live is deemed 'wrong' or 'cancelled' or whatever. We've lost our ever-loving minds.

*And last, one might say, "but Break, how can you say 'most people who play this game are happy with the game' and then go on to say you can't really make a determination about the mood or feelings of the player-base given the online discussion present?"

Because, logically, people don't pay and play to feel bad. People maintaining a subscription and logging in are getting some sort of satisfaction from it... minus the masochists that like self-harm. Therefore, I'd have to say that a controlling majority of the people subscribing and logging in, are happy with this game. Logically, quite a huge controlling majority.

The counter-opinion, that the majority of people subscribing and logging in are unhappy, has no such logical backing. Such behavior would be counter to the normal human inclination to shy away from optional activities that aren't satisfying.