Quote:They could tell every poster here at the Lounge to piss off and die, and it would affect the sales of their next game by 1/10th of 1 percent. Tops. This is something that to this day, various people I know online STILL haven't understood.
This is very true, and could happen at any time, hypothetically. Although there are two or three developers(Blizzard, of course, and Bioware comes to mind as well) that I hold on faith to never do this to any of their hardcore fans - that's what they used to be before they started making the games instead of playing them ;)
This quote you took, however, is flawed:
Quote:You hardcore fans can be bad news...You don't know what's best for a game, because you rarely represent an accurate cross-section of the people buying the game. You don't understand that you rarely drive sales in any statistically significant sense.
Okay, most of the sales of a game are made in the first year or so, I would guess. When a game is that new it doesn't have a very large hardcore fanbase. How long after Diablo's release did DSF start influencing Diablo patches (this isn't hypothetical, BTW, I am actually wondering)? Only when the mainstream gamer have moved on to the next game of the week/month/year do the hardcore fans really trying to affect what happens in the revisions of their games. And if the developer is still even supporting the game, then perhaps they should pay more attention to the group.
Jerk. :P
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