playerbase down 25% in 4 months?

[Abriael]

I would make a poll - but Abraiel was smart enough to immunize his opinion against any form of falsification. After all,
Anyone, playing any MMORPG, mind you.

So basically the ones that already left have no clue,
and the ones that voice their opinions in the forums don't count.
Oh, and reviews don't count either.
Because we've already established reviewers are numbskulls, and
no serious player gives crap about a review anyway.

Well played Sir, well played.

Ah, strawman arguments. You can't have enough of them it seems.

1: if you think a poll in a forum is any representation of the thousands of people that play a game. Think again.
2: The ones that already left can do what they want. I sure have more respect for the ones that left and moved on, than for the ones that continue to troll a game they don't like, obsessed an unable to move on.
3: Reviews are obsolete, and count zero. MMORPG reviews have an expiry date, as MMORPGs evolve more than any other game. Something that describe mechanics that have since radically changed or that don't even exist anymore has no validity. It's simple logic. The Market Wards described in reviews have absolutely nothing to do with the market wards now.
4: The fact that most gaming reviewers lack any kind of journalistic education or integrity is a well known fact in the industry, even more known is the fact that most of them don't dedicate enough time to MMORPGs in order to get a decent idea of them. The slew of over-8/9 scores given to Age of Conan based on the first (very good) levels and competely disregarding the barren wasteland coming past level 20 are a clear example of that. Not that many learned the lesson, mind you.

I don't need to play forum games. I base what I say on facts.