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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 7683917" data-attributes="member: 18182">The stats given aren't meaningless or invalid, and they don't have any problems.They are, certainly, limited and can only tell us so much.The ORR group isn't a RPG research institute doing scientific studies of RPG usage for the benefit of mankind (wouldn't that be cool). They are a game company simply sharing data with us becdause they think we might find it interesting. And they're right!The stats certainly can't be used (or, well, shouldn't) to "prove" anything other than the obvious, that the 5th edition of D&D is the most popular game being played right now on Roll20. It's one data point, along with other data points like the IcV2 rankings, that give us an incomplete picture of what's hot right now.Some of us find this sort of analysis, limited as it is, interesting. Others don't. Either way, that's fine. But I tire of the back-and-forth complaining so many of us do in these types of threads. Ah, well.The specific categories listed make sense to what the ORR group wants to track for Roll20. D&D is separated out because D&D as a whole is a wildly popular game system. Stars Wars is lumped together, despite the huge variances in rule systems, because (as cool as Star Wars is) the total number of folks playing isn't that large. The categories wouldn't make sense if this were some sort of objective research project being reported on, but that's isn't what this is.</blockquote>

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