Quote Originally Posted by ovIm View Post
Sure, but there are still a lot of people that write reviews. If you consider how statistics work, and how geniunely positive all reviews were before dawntrail, you have to admit that FFXIV, which had a previously very favorable user score, now does not have that anymore. in fact, rougly half of the people writing reviews are in dislike of the current expansion, where previously, this was more in the ballpark of 10%.
The question is who are the people most likely to write the reviews. They're not a random sample of the population. There is most certainly a specific subset of the gaming population that is significantly more likely to inhabit Reddit, post reviews, etc.. They do not represent anywhere near a majority of gamers, but they are by far the "loudest" voices. DT was most definitely not designed for them, so it doesn't surprise me to see the voluntary sample that is all "reviews" like this are is different than in past expansions. There's also a reason voluntary samples are known throughout the actual statistics community as being the most unreliable type.

It is just as much (if not significantly moreso) closing your eyes to the truth when you do the same exact thing and brush aside any voices that praise or enjoy a product you personally dislike. That's also erasing their voices and their relevance, and when you fail to consider on top of that how large that population may be in comparison...well, it explains why this place remains such an echo chamber of negativity and frustration as people work themselves up over the dev team "ignoring" them, when all that's really happening is they're listening to the much larger group of players that aren't here.