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Even though this kind of thing is apparently your job, you've messed up the statistics and lost every person who actually plays the game regularly.
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I wasn't going to mention that part.
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Probably just as well not to, John, as you'd be making the same error as Bort:
Total who responded and have actually purchased and played the game: 190
Those who are happily playing: 63 (33.2%)
Those who are something OTHER than happily playing: 127 (66.8%)
Given my interest was in those OTHER than happily playing, that's what I quoted. I even took the time to exclude those yet to purchase the game...something nobody else has done. If I've made a mistake then I'd be happy to have it explained to me....
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Originally Posted by John Channing
The largest single block of “voters” (31.58%) are “Installed and Happily Playing”
60.29% of respondents are currently playing the game.
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Originally Posted by John Channing
90.44% of respondents are awaiting patch 1.03.
and only 3.35% are “disgusted, will never play again”
Roughly the same numbers but quite a different way of portraying them, don’t you think?
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Well, certainly a 'creative' one.....
60.29% are currently playing? Well, roughly HALF of those are playing 'rarely' and waiting on 1.03. Depends on your definition of 'currently'. If you think 'rarely' = 'currently', then it's fine. 'Rarely' to me means their default is NOT to play.
90.44% are waiting on 1.03? Don't know where you get that, given that the first response makes no mention of patch 1.03 at all, simply that they are happily playing. While it's a fair bet they would like 1.03, they are the only group NOT waiting specifically for it.
My point in all of this was that approximately 2 out of 3 people who have the game either play it rarerly or not at all. Nothing in the figures has changed that. If people think that's a good enough response, good for them. It in no way invalidates my observation that many companies would be aghast at such numbers, and certainly my own direct experience is I'd be in deep doo-doo were I responsible for such customer feedback. Nothing more, nothing less. To put it another way:
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Of course I am only too happy to be shown an argument that supports the premise that 33.2% of customers happily playing a game are NOT figures that should be regarded as an indictment. My experience is that anything scoring 35.3% 'bottom two boxes' customer scores would be producing alarm bells, but that's simply my experience (not opinion).
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One thing I am not trying to do is say people are wrong for liking the game!! I am happy for them, and I do not intend any sarcasm in saying that. I wish I could be as happy, or that Ubi/Developers had not sent what, on the basis of these results, the majority of those who have responded feel is an unsatisfactory product to market.
Cheers all.....no rancour on my part!
p.s. Hi to you too, Akbar!
pp.s. Re MTW2, the difference for me is what I expect from it. I don't view it as a 'sim' in the way I do SH. You could liken the AI that has convoys stopping conveniently when you torp a single ship in the same way that people in MTW2 forum regarded the AI having troop formations sitting in the middle of a field being hit by missile fire and doing nothing. The folks in MTW2 certainly had plenty to say about it, yet there's barely a whisper here. Meanwhile I am asked why I'd play a game like MTW2 that is 'more flawed' than SH4. Strange......