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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scribble" data-source="post: 4745624" data-attributes="member: 23977">Well, obviously they can't know anything with 100% certainty, but I'm sure they're not inexperienced with their company.With my company, though we don't know for certain how much our clients EE's will spend on medical bills in a certain quarter we can usually give a pretty darn good estimate. We look at things like, population size, income level of the population, what the job actually is, how educated the population is, age range, etc... Lots of things that someone experienced in the field can use to give a good estimate.I don't know what a game company uses to evaluate its numbers, but one thing is certain- I'm sure Wizards knows a lot more about how their sales "should" be then the common person on the street. I'm also sure rather then just some random guy making a "gut reaction" to the piracy it was also looked at, and evaluated by people with that knowledge using lots of info we don't have.Sometimes companies do stuff that's just plain dumb sure... But also sometimes companies do things that if you don't have all the numbers looks dumb, but in reality "we're going to look dumb" was one of the considerations made before the plan was enacted, but in the end the ends justified the means.My company again... we switched around accounts from various people, a move which caused some people to be doing some aspects of the "new" accounts with no experience. To some parts of our clients this move looked really dumb... But to the people that matetred, the consultants, the HR people in charge of buying our services, the "integrated" model was the smart move despite how dumb some poeple thought it was.</blockquote>

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