Quote Originally Posted by Hyperia View Post
While it’s fun and easy to write people off like this, statistically, there are 26 others who feel the same way but do not say anything.

If you look at all of the break / quitting threads and their comments, it amounts to a very large number.

Many people, including myself, who are on break or have quit, have done so, not by our choice.

This is why we comment, it keeps reminding the devs that there are problems that need to be addressed.
When you compare it to the size of the playerbase (NA estimate is somewhere around 200-250k at the moment), that "very large number" is actually nothing. It's the proverbial grain of sand on the beach.

The only real large-scale data we have comes from Steam logins, and here's where we're at comparing DT with the past couple expansions 2 full months after release:

DT --> Around 48% retention (52% of players no longer logging in from DT start)
EW --> Around 43% retention (57% of players no longer logging in from EW start)
ShB --> Around 49% retention (51% of players no longer logging in from ShB start)

That puts DT right in the neighborhood of ShB (which is generally viewed as the "best" expansion by the most people) and quite a bit better than EW (which had a 92% metacritic rating). The reality is that DT is not experiencing anything different than the standard cycles this game has had for years.