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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JohnSnow" data-source="post: 3821416" data-attributes="member: 32164">Are we a reasonable cross section of the D&D playing RPG community? Of course not.You say you understand selection bias. Do you understand demographics? That older players are  more likely to post here? That internet message boards, by their very nature bring out the "passionate" in droves, and leave the "interested" cold.And upset people are more passionate than those who are happy. Most people who like the changes they see in the cosmology think "oh cool. Can't wait for 4e." By contrast, people who hate them think "OMG! HOw dare they?! I'm going to go and protest!!"And when all the angry people are speaking, but the happy minority is content to let them shriek, the angry folks think they're a majority.Trust me, WotC got all kinds of opinions before they ever announced anything. They conducted internet surveys, they probably conducted by mail surveys. They probably did a stratified random sample of people who had Dragon magazine subscriptions, and the probably did it all more than two years ago, when nobody was feeling especially passionate about ANYTHING. I'm sure they learned their lesson from the TSR days. It's not like they fell off the turnip truck the minute Dancey stopped being Brand Manager.</blockquote>