You don't speak for the majority,stop it

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I gave the evidence in my logical proof.

For your reading convenience I copy the relevant section here:

Consider this: If I did not represent the majority Blizzard would not implement the many things I suggest!

Certainly people are not going to argue that they implement my suggestions because of me. No, of course not. They implement them because they know, via whatever secret internal metrics they use, that my views are reflective of the vast majority of players.

This is a logical proof that my statement that I represent the majority is absolutely a fact.

Thank You.
Have a great day.

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I know how you feel. I remember posting in a game forum in 2000 that Blizzard should make an mmo out of Warcraft 3 and they did. Everyone agreed and own me big time for that. Let start with 1% of everyones gold.

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I’ll just be weak then, because I plan on thinking for myself. The crowd never thinks for me.

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The majority can’t speak anymore anyway because the majority has stopped playing.

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B…b…b…but Asmongold and Youtubers said the game was bad.

you mean a guy that plays 12 hours a day, most of which is farming transmog might just be burned out and we shouldn’t all act like a mindless cult?

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The majority of the minority speaks for the minority majority and stuff.

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some people here misrepresent the OP, he in fact never claimed to speak for the majority of anything, just his own personal opinion.

:man_facepalming:

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That’s why I say “personally” and “in my opinion” very frequently.

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So we should instead just talk about “people all over this forum?”

What’s the difference exactly?

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One is accurate and one isn’t. That’s a fairly large distinction.

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Oh yeah, it’s Sunday.

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Worse. It’s an almost-a-holiday Sunday.

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shudders

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My experience on YT is that I got roughly one comment per thousand views…roughly. That was more or less true almost all the time except special circumstances/topics. Let’s pretend that’s an actual statistic for a sec because it’s a nice round number to illustrate the point. 1 out of 1000 users comment.

It’s going to be far less on a forum like this one. On YT, every single user was on the site and watched the video/played the content. Here, only a small minority of WoW’s users even come to this site or look at the forums. Of that small percentage, only a small minority will actually post anything (that 1/1000 number).

So the forums, as important and “direct line to the devs” as they may feel, are not representative of majority experiences in WoW. They are representative only of the feelings/desires of the tiny population of us who know of the forums, visit the forums, and then actually write stuff and post it…on the forums. We are a tiny subset of this game’s players.

Tiny.

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This is exactly the point I am making.

When they implement my suggestions it is not because of me.

It is because the vast majority of their paying customers have the exact same opinion.

It would indeed be a long list of all the suggestions that I have made that have been implemented.

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Does posting something on the Warcraft General forums mean the poster is speaking for everyone? Is there something in the terms of service that says “*and everything you post should be taken by a reader as the pulse of the community?”

Only asking because I’ve legit never seen anybody seriously claim to speak for “the majority” here.

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I take it you have never seen any of Rastlin’s posts then? He isn’t the only one, but he is definitely the worst offender.

edit: He has an active post going at the moment, should you be so inclined.

edit again: Two actually.

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You don’t speak for me!

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It’s so much more powerful when you own it and just tell how whatever it is impacts you and makes you feel. Appealing to the majority, claiming that everyone feels the same as you, or making it an us vs them argument takes away from the power of what you are trying to convey.

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Considering that Blizz has sent out two surveys regarding BfA, something that, to my knowledge, they have never done before within the first 6 months of the expansion, indicates that something isn’t right with the subs (as in subs are declining).

So it looks like a majority of the player base isn’t wrong in criticizing the direction the devs are taking WoW.