You are confusing theory with reality
Ok great you listened to the player base and now you learned what? Its a pretty even split on most things people like or hate. Only valuable information that can be gleamed would be something to form a argument in favor of your own agenda. All you learn from the forums is some people like a thing, and some people hate that same thing. And it’s not even 1% of the player base’s opinion.
Buy shares of ATVI until you own 51% - Go tell Bobby Kotick he’s fired…with that many shares YOU OWN THE COMPANY. Understand how a shareholder can have power? Or just playing stupid?
You’re confusing shareholders with CEO’s and boardmembers.
“Muh evil rich people.”
But guess what? The sentiment on the forums is the same across reddit and youtube. Does anyone purely use the forums as a gauge? No. But it is foolish to think the forums are completely irrelevant. Will they look at the fine details of every discussion? Likely not. But if you go to the forums, reddit, and check trailer votes and comments, you can easily determine whether the company’s next release is going to net you a positive.
Are the forums useful? Yes. But it seems like people now want to diminish it to whether or not every topic is useful. That’s foolish.
How many times have you watched Wall Street? You do realize that shareholders aren’t buying up shares to control the company, right? They aren’t the BoD.
Being an investor isn’t an exclusive club reserved only for white collar “rich people” btw. For all you know, you could engage with investors frequently that play the game and use the forums themselves.
I’m going to go out on a limb and say the majority of shareholders that aren’t employed by Activision-Blizzard or one of its subsidiaries don’t even know they own ATVI stock because they own it as part of a mutual fund or they let their brokers manage their assets and don’t go too deep into what they actually own.
I think you’re vastly over estimating the importance of views expressed on the forums. The people that use the forums are a tiny minority of the WoW population.
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You make me laugh. 
The last line shows that you have definitely watched too many movies.
You do understand that there are different classes for shares, right?
You keep beating your chest and calling others kids and telling others to take classes. What is making me laugh is you don’t even know that just buying shares doesn’t give you majority voting power.
I was going to buy 1K shares in ACTIVI stock, but then I learned they were nerfing Shadow Priests?
Buy Status: CANCELLED
An investor looks at Blizzard as a whole not just as one game. And since the forum represents a very small faction of players as a whole. Its a very poor place to gauge if one invest or not.
Maybe invest into hay. I hear strawmen are in high demand right now.
That depends. How strong are Strawmen in the next patch?
Apparently strong but brainless.
Has anyone claimed a shareholder looks at individual complaints? I don’t recall it.
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You need to go a step further here. They look at Blizzard, then they look at Activision, then King, MLG, Activision-Blizzard studios and any other company that Acti-Blizz owns. Then they ignore all of it except King because that is where most of the company’s revenue comes from.
There’s very little in value the forums will bring to a shareholder…
The more immediate concerns would be what impact the recent coronavirus would have as it’s had a fairly large market impact already. The positive thing is game sales typically go up if people choose to keep themselves isolated out of safety.
What benefit would they have of it?
Fact of the matter is that those who regularly visit the forums represent only a small snapshot of the overall population of the game and likely isn’t a statistically significant representative at that.
Lol, that’s some quality sass. Liked, and subscribed.
While this is true, it is also true that you can’t really say that the forums are a representative sample of the player base.
When blizzard informs you of upcoming titles, patches, expansions, do you not find it worth your time and money to check consumer interest? Would you REALLY just toss them your money without researching interest?
https://investor.activision.com/events-presentations
It would definitely be foolish to claim that. You would then gauge the sentiment on social media which coincidentally mirrors the sentiment here.