Quote Originally Posted by Kazemon15 View Post
I'm sorry, I don't understand what you mean by "style of argument". And what "bad arguments"? If you mean debunking the steam "myth", then show me the true numbers of the non-steam members. If you give me that, then I will accept that argument. Or is it the fact that other MMOs have shut down due to lower playerbase or mixed reviews? But we have WoW to contradict that, which is a fact and not a speculation. I fail to see what I have said that was "bad" or "wrong". The story is bad? That is subjective. An opinion. A difference of taste. So again, please tell me.

Firstly, valid sample size statistics are not myth. And I'll note that calling them that would be one example of a bad argument, since you asked me to point one out. Next, putting the burden of evidence on me to provide numbers over the totality of a population because you refuse statistical approximation is another antipattern, and therefore a bad faith argument. It would instead be far more reasonable for PassinLay to ask you to provide statistics in support of your position of at least equal sample size and validity to the ones they used to support the opposite position.

And for a third -- WoW literally DID get bought out by Microsoft and fired and replaced so much of its staff including development leads, the writing lead, and the very CEO of the company. WoW only started its present recovery after doing everything and more that the OP article is calling for, so using WoW's revival as somehow proof that those are things you don't need to do, is logically invalid -- which makes your insistence on using it anyway, another bad argument.