htown1980: heh heh. good point.
That is funny. Believe it or not, I was not aware of that fraud. It sounds horrible. I was just comparing it to the most voted. Lets try the second most voted. That appears to be System Shock 2 (unless of course a similar fraud has been perpetuated).
4,100 / 36,000 x 100 = 11%.
Hmm... 11% still sounds like a minority to me. Thoughts?
Absolutely. I wonder how many people actually use gog. I would guess 100,000s (but I could be completely wrong) so it seems really strange to me that someone would suggest 4,100 could be the majority of gog users...
Fair enough.
I don't think anyone suggested that 4k users is 'majority of gog users'. First of all, majority likely doesn't give a damn about forums, wishlists, or actually interacting in any way other than picking up a few games on sales. Second, it likely doesn't give a damn about this particular game at all, so if that's what your point is, I agree. What I would say however is, if you're using the absolute user base, then there is hardly a single game where majority would care about enough to wishlist or request or complain etc.
When we are talking about vocal minority, or who is the vocal minority, we have to take into account the amount of people that are actually active on regular basis and care enough to have an opinion on the subject. 4k would be drop in the ocean if it was a count on Steam. What you would have to compare it with is the amount of people that voted on wishlists within the time frame of its existence, or with the wish counts of the items that were created around the similar time, which is an info we sadly don't have a way of getting.
It gives the suggestion of what said users want to see or pay for. Wether it was deemed insignificant enough indeed, or there's something else... GOG has made it's decision. If they bring it at some point, it will be welcome, considering the Desura bankrupcy, but I don't think anything we say at this point (or perhaps ever) really matters.
