Just to give folks some perspective. The 2.1 patch video from SE says they have 1,500,000 adventures. Let's just be nice and say that 1,000,000 are active players (giving SE the benefit of the doubt and saying 2/3 of their adventures are active, sure why not).

So, 1 person represents 0.000001% of the population. So a post that has 500 likes on it only represents 0.0005%. To get at least 1% of the population to like a single post a post would need 10,000 likes. I can't even find a post that comes close to that many likes. And that's assuming 100% of the active player base uses the forums, has an opinion on way or the other.

What we actually see on the forums are the most vocal (whether positive or negative). Should SE even really pay attention to an original post that has only 5 likes (meaning 0.000005% of the assumed active population) on it? No.

Unfortunately, the trend on these forums are people using it as their soap box. And if anyone even dares to disagree with them they are labeled a troll, white knight, and/or any other randomly creative term they can think of at the moment. Basically each post/thread is it's own micro-community. If SE has any sense at all, they cherry pick the threads/posts to pay attention to and totally ignore others. Folks tend to look at the picture from their point of view, lets say from within the game and not the overlooking view that SE has access to. Does that mean SE can't do no wrong? No. It just means some of the people posting on these forums should just be ignored. Some folks have this righteous sense of self worth and entitlement when it comes to a game they paid for. "I PAID FOR THIS AND I DEMAND THIS!"