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<blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 4676637" data-attributes="member: 2525">We do not have any good reason to think they lost ~45% of the fanbase.&nbsp; You citing internet polls here and your instincts from your own game store is...well...about as inaccurate as me asking a random person on the street what they think your salary is.&nbsp; I'll get an answer, and the answer will have very little basis in reality.I wish this meme would stop being promulgated here.&nbsp; In no other aspect of society would any of us take an internet poll seriously (which always attracts the disgruntled more than the content, because the answers come from people who had to affirmatively take the poll seeking to voice an opinion, and content people tend to not want to seek something out to voice their opinion as often), or think our own store down the block checked a handful of times is representative of the entire nation or worldwide sales.&nbsp; Why people take it seriously here I do not know.&nbsp; I know it's because &quot;it's the best evidence we have&quot;, but that is not true.&nbsp; We have the amazon listings (which ended ranking it better than 3.5 did) and we have at least one statement from a WOTC employee saying sales were extremely strong and they were forced into a second and third printing much earlier than expected.&nbsp; And while that is far from perfect data, it is at least more credible data, as opposed to an internet poll here or attendance a handful of times at your game store.In other words, we have no clue at all how well the game is doing relative to prior games, and the best actual data we have shows it did well at least during the initial release.&nbsp; Beyond that, it's just personal opinion, which tends to strongly correlate to how well you like the game.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mistwell, post: 4676637, member: 2525"] We do not have any good reason to think they lost ~45% of the fanbase. You citing internet polls here and your instincts from your own game store is...well...about as inaccurate as me asking a random person on the street what they think your salary is. I'll get an answer, and the answer will have very little basis in reality. I wish this meme would stop being promulgated here. In no other aspect of society would any of us take an internet poll seriously (which always attracts the disgruntled more than the content, because the answers come from people who had to affirmatively take the poll seeking to voice an opinion, and content people tend to not want to seek something out to voice their opinion as often), or think our own store down the block checked a handful of times is representative of the entire nation or worldwide sales. Why people take it seriously here I do not know. I know it's because "it's the best evidence we have", but that is not true. We have the amazon listings (which ended ranking it better than 3.5 did) and we have at least one statement from a WOTC employee saying sales were extremely strong and they were forced into a second and third printing much earlier than expected. And while that is far from perfect data, it is at least more credible data, as opposed to an internet poll here or attendance a handful of times at your game store. In other words, we have no clue at all how well the game is doing relative to prior games, and the best actual data we have shows it did well at least during the initial release. Beyond that, it's just personal opinion, which tends to strongly correlate to how well you like the game. [/QUOTE]

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