Quote Originally Posted by Striker44 View Post
And, I mean, the current approach is working wonders. That "more than 5 people" honestly draws a chuckle when we consider there's literally hundreds of thousands of active players, even now during a content lull. Anecdotal evidence can be great for case studies, but doesn't really mean anything if trying to generalize it to a larger population.
Even that's anecdotal though.. The game boasts that over 26 million people have played the game. so in comparison to say a few hundred thousand are active isntt exactly great.. even if we say 900k thats still over 25 million that dropped it.

it's quite likely that if the game was tuned just a bit harder. enough to add a hint of credibility to the story that more of those 25 million players would have kept interest for longer.. and equally possible that the game would have millions of active subs instead of hundreds of thousands..

again all annecdotal but when you look at the forums, the login queues, lucky banchos sweeps various other stuff. you seeee a hell of a lot of players getting bored very very quickly..