Quote Originally Posted by Kurando View Post
Well so a few things here. Unless you have alts on every datacentre and have gauged opinions from all players you come across, then what you hear in-game isn't always enough to give a clear picture. Same with the forums, only a small population of all the players in the game actually use this place, so again we wouldn't have enough to go on. Also it's easy for negative things to gain traction because if people are happy, then don't have much reason to complain. The updated TOS is a example of this, the Western playerbase is being very vocal (we have a thread nearly 30 pages) whilst the JP players are quite content with it (thread with a couple of pages in comparison I believe).
True. I concede that you have an excellent point. I might just be hearing an echo chamber from 10% of the gaming population. But it is 1 loud chamber, though! Can we use total amount of active Blue Mages as a good gauge of popularity? 3-month mark, then 6-month and then 1-year mark?