GroverA125 wrote...
*snip*I mean that in failing this campaign, it shows that there's not many people left standing against them, then that means that since they then will be able to believe that there's only 900 or so of us, they won't do much for us, instead of just feeding the pro-enders more space magic, plotholes and nonsence into it. Numbers are the only thing we have on our side, if we lose that viability, we fall like bricks. That's our primary advantage. Nobody can calculate our numbers. The greatest and most instinctive fear in humankind is that of the unknown. Since they literally have no idea how expansive we are, that gives us advantage. If we do get a number labelled onto us, we lose that advantage, and then things get a lot worse for our side.
They've announced the EC, and there's a *chance* that it might give us all what we have hoped for this whole time. It's not made yet, they still have plenty of time to change parts of it. The less our numbers appear to be, the lower that chance of us being happy is. Why would Bioware choose to make DLC if it only caters for 100 people out of around a million, when they could give the other people what they want instead? Numbers are all we have, other than support of reviewers, which again is classes as just numbers. We need to keep our numbers high, or at least make it look like our numbers are higher than they actually are.
All they need to do is look at the forums and the (at least) hundreds of pages of feedback that they've received, the constant tweets and questions, the ever-increasing number of articles agreeing that the ending was bad and things like the cupcake campaign. These people aren't stupid, they're not going to change whatever plans they have for the dlc now because it may seem like all of a sudden the numbers have decreased. I think they know full well that it is down to people waiting to see what they deliver. Any one of them puts up a new comment on the forums or on Twitter and people are all over it - I think they're well aware of the pressure and the expectations being put on them.
Your statement in bold bothers me for the simple reason that it suggests that by having to make our numbers look higher than they are that we are in the minority. I also don't particularly like the insinuation that we need to deceive BioWare about our numbers so that we get what we want.
The biggest advantage we have is that BioWare has spent years nurturing a close relationship with its fanbase and that they have shown many times that they are actively listening to the feedback from those fans and implementing it. I totally respect your point of view on this but from a personal perspective some of the language that is being used makes me uneasy.