Quote Originally Posted by RitsukoSonoda View Post
The actual problem is they often don't look into it any further than seeing the numbers on the spreadsheet. So they essentially have no actual context of what the numbers actually mean or what lead those numbers to actually be generated. They just go through it to make sure the boxes they want bigger numbers in show bigger numbers and the boxes they want smaller numbers in show smaller numbers. Any outliers to what they want will simply result on looking for a scapegoat or excuse.
You might be thinking of it too simply. They're going to look at past trends at similar points in a development cycle. Some deviation is expected of course but only in small amounts.

If normally they would have 30% of the player base participating in Savage raiding during a certain patch cycle but that number has dropped to 10%, they're going to want to know why that content has lost 2/3s of its normal participants. That's when they're going to start checking feedback. If it's only dropped from 30% to 27%, then they they don't have much reason to care.