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Originally Posted by OneTinSoldier
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Originally Posted by DaMaGe007
I dont think this or any other forum contribute to sales greatly in either a positive or negative respect.
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Sorry, but I disgree with that. I think a lot of people read through forums in order to form an opinion on whether or not they should purchase a piece of software. I think you get quite a bit more informed from reading forums than from even reading reviews.
I think you could say I'm a case in point. I was very close to deciding to not buy SHIV because it has a 3D Rendered World that is 'upscaled from 1024x768' and not the true resolutions that are advertised in the game(selectable in the graphics options), and no Anti-Aliasing. Then the Dev's made a post on here announcing they were aware of the issue and that they hope to fix it. Even though it was hard for me to believe they would pull such a stunt to begin with, the admission/acknowledgement made me feel a whole lot better about the matter and I bought the game.
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I agree with you and there are certinly a number of people that do as you say, but if the thread views are anything to go by...
the most popular threads have 25000 views and some of that is repeat viewing which cuts the numbers down furthur, they sell 200000 300000 coppies of the game. A small percentage of the sales.
Think more people come here after buying the product, trying to resolve bugs hence alot of new users around release, and not that many new users a month before.
We are both correct from a certain point of view.
Edit: I think the devs diseminate things from the negative comments and they dont feel that upset by people criticizing the game, alot of the Negativity is posted by users *matter of factly* but it gets interpreted as emotional ranting.
Those threads have mostly been merged into thier relevant areas, where the *fanboy* Cmon guys ! threads do not.
These threads push useful threads off the front page. I would like to see some consistancy for both *sides*