[quote]VettoRyouzou wrote...
This fella used his polls to compile these results and the polls are from this site. That is how.[/quote]
That then voiding every person opinion not on the forum a shocking surprise most game owner do not visit the game they own forum, So again there no official number outside of the bioware feedback option, if you don't like that fact then your up a creek my friend as well as the person who made this supposedly "fact" post.
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This. While I'm not oblivious to the very real possibility that the massive showing of support for Tali'Zorah on BioWare's website may not be indicative of the overall lay of the ME gamer land since many undoubtedly do not take the time to visit this website, that does not automatically mean that our efforts on this website might not be indicative of the lay of the ME gamer land either.
Vetto has it right: The only way to form a completely accurate analysis as to which characters were used the most by the players would be for BioWare to have access to ALL players' game data. This raises at least two issues: 1) It is uncertain that all gamers are going to opt to share their game data with BioWare and thus BioWare may never have the full picture (though perhaps they can get close, who knows). 2) Though one would surmise that players will pick party members they like over others and thus usage of said party members would denote popularity, this needn't be the case. Some characters are better suited for various missions and thus a more strategically inclined player may put aside his or her personal favourites in favoure of getting the mission done.
As the saying goes, there are lies and then there are damn lies and statistics.