How many of those 6,600 members post regularly? How many hit any given poll? How many have opinions worth counting? How many are knowledgeable of (insert subject here)? Why does a DSers opinion count more than an off-line Shadowrun fan's? Why does a DSers opinion count more than someone who plays/talks Shadowrun elsewhere on the internet? How many user names are one person with multiple accounts? How many of the 6,600 members are banned?
Etc, etc, etc.
It's very flattering to think any given on-line forum is some sort of authority, but it's seldom true. Even -- some might say especially -- with official forums.
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I'd go as far as to say that *no* forum is ever representative of the total gamer population. In order to bother with being a regular poster on a forum you really need a lot of free time to spend on writing and reading and thinking about the stuff on the forum. How many casual gamers would do something like that?
The fact is we're the subsection of SR gamers with no lives.
We are the obsessed, the otaku of the otaku, the ones who own every SR book ever published and still want more, who analyze the rules and sourcebooks, cross-referencing them for minor inconsistencies that most people either don't notice, don't care about, or just house-rule away without a second glance. For Fanpro to properly cater to our whims they'd need ten times the staffing and the ability to put out three sourcebooks a month, and that ain't happenning because in so doing you'd lose all the casual gamers that make up 95+% of the market share.
So no, I don't expect Fanpro to bother spending the time, money and effort required to cater to DSF members' demands. We come into this demanding quality and quantity that no normal person demands, especially now in a world where content expectations have been extremely lowered thanks to Hollywood and Microsoft. You won't see the rest of the world clamoring for extremely good quality control--even going so far as suggesting that four months is not a sufficient amount of time to test a completely divergent game system--or extra material that may never come into play in a single American game, just because the Germans base their continuity on it. Maybe you should, but you won't; it's just the way the world is.
The fact is we're the subsection of SR gamers with no lives.
We are the obsessed, the otaku of the otaku, the ones who own every SR book ever published and still want more, who analyze the rules and sourcebooks, cross-referencing them for minor inconsistencies that most people either don't notice, don't care about, or just house-rule away without a second glance. For Fanpro to properly cater to our whims they'd need ten times the staffing and the ability to put out three sourcebooks a month, and that ain't happenning because in so doing you'd lose all the casual gamers that make up 95+% of the market share. So no, I don't expect Fanpro to bother spending the time, money and effort required to cater to DSF members' demands. We come into this demanding quality and quantity that no normal person demands, especially now in a world where content expectations have been extremely lowered thanks to Hollywood and Microsoft. You won't see the rest of the world clamoring for extremely good quality control--even going so far as suggesting that four months is not a sufficient amount of time to test a completely divergent game system--or extra material that may never come into play in a single American game, just because the Germans base their continuity on it. Maybe you should, but you won't; it's just the way the world is.
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heh.....well that's a sign that i've made it to the big time. Someone is using something i put in an illo as their signature...i'm strangely flattered.
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