Seriously

[worldofneil]

You do NOT know that thousands of people playing do not experience this. What you know, is that you don't, the people in your FC don't, and you know that there are a handful of people who have posted on these forums saying that they don't have a problem don't. You can not speak for everyone playing, but we can speak for every single person that has posted about this issue, and they out number those who have posted they do not.

Because people without an issue wouldn't post that they don't have an issue. Why would they? And you're right, I don't know there aren't thousands of people affected, but neither do you. Your information is based on your own experience and the hundreds of people (not thousands) posting on the forums. Just because it's a hot topic in the technical support area at the moment, doesn't automatically mean a high proportion of the players are affected, it just means there are relatively few other problems.

im writing this post for me personally but im also representing the 12 other people in my guild (who have yet to make a single lag post but they have the same lag problems i have or worse)

So let's stop making shit up for abit and loook at the fact's

Okay... the facts are that there are potentially more people that those posting on the forums who are affected by a lag issue, but because they haven't posted to tell people, they aren't getting counted (either by me or more importantly SE).

Is that about right?

[Sax]

Because people without an issue wouldn't post that they don't have an issue. Why would they? And you're right, I don't know there aren't thousands of people affected, but neither do you. Your information is based on your own experience and the hundreds of people (not thousands) posting on the forums. Just because it's a hot topic in the technical support area at the moment, doesn't automatically mean a high proportion of the players are affected, it just means there are relatively few other problems.

Actually if you look at the throttling thread (which is likely the first stop most people with this problem make on the forum) you will see that it is reaching into the thousands. Also, I am not the one claiming thousands are/are not having problems, that's all you. Again, I said based on the number of posts on this forum there is a large portion (not proportion, they are different words with different meanings) experiencing difficulties. How many people do you think post on this forum? I would say 10,000 is a rather large overestimate of posters on the English forum. Compare that to the 1400+ posting in other threads and you end up with an underestimated 14% of posters experiencing problems. If the forum is representative of the true player base (like I said before, it's unlikely) that's 14% of the player base experiencing the problem. That is not an insignificant amount. (See I can do bad stats as well.)

Yes, it's the most widely talked about issue, and not only here but on other forums as well, which is why SE need to acknowledge the issue and try to resolve it to both keep the current player base happy and decrease the amounts of negative publicity they're receiving about it.