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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BadEye" data-source="post: 7882386" data-attributes="member: 6871835">I'm assuming you're calling me the "alien" in this response? A bit insulting, but that never really deters me so I'll bite:The dataset isn't spurious - I have explained here and many times elsewhere that we scrub it for active players (to the best of our reasonable ability to do so), and no one (especially not I) ever said anything other than this is data from the D&D Beyond platform. Nothing about anything I said was bogus (or deserving of being called an alien).I also said the supporting data had not been released to the public, not that the data wouldn't be released to the public. We have not done so to this point because the general audience for a Dev Update stream are not data scientists, and therefore that additional data content would be confusing to consume. Also releasing a gigantic amount of raw data while ensuring it is appropriately understood is a time-intensive process, and we would rather use our limited resources to make things.Nothing at all is deliberately misleading, because nothing I've said or shared is misleading. It is deliberately accurate for players with active characters on DDB. Of course cloud-yellers out there will not believe me when I say it since I don't have access to the source data, but historically, we have seen that all our major data points on DDB align with all the other feedback channels that WotC shares with us. In other words, DDB has thus far proven to be representative of the game's audience as a whole. Popular races, classes, etc. all line up. You don't have to believe that if you don't want to, that's your choice, but it certainly does not lend any validity to the anecdotally biased assumptions you presented about the community and what it wants.</blockquote>

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