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Originally Posted by Marleigh
I was using specific examples to disprove your anecdotal evidence, which all seems to centre around you thinking you know better than anyone else.
And the last paragraph is sublimely arrogant
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I can see why my assessments of the content releases looks anecdotal; I apologize for not making it clear that there was data behind it, and I can see why you responded with anecdotal evidence in kind.
I am just 100% driven by data. It's hard to get good, solid data, hard to analyze, hard to present. It's also hard to disagree with good, solid data; it speaks for itself. I don't think I'm all-knowing personally, I just trust what the data says as being accurate, and if someone presents contrary data, I'll change my view. I realize I haven't been super quantitative in supporting my arguments here, so if Joe Forumer who also has good, solid data and analysis wants to discount my arguments, that's totally defensible. Just know that all the player assessments pop out of game models, all the economic assessments pop out of historical price trends tracked over a long time.
Another aspect of my understanding of the whale-diamondF2P gap is that I've been tracking the roster costs of each group, both for the relatively wealthy and relatively poor F2Pers. My opinions are informed by that data; for example, I know some of the more fruitful F2Pers now have roster costs in the 5M PP range, which starts to rival whales (playoff whale rosters have historically costed a bit more than ~7M PP under my tracking). That was impossible early on without some ENORMOUS, UNTHINKABLE bout of luck.
I'm not trying to sound arrogant, like the things I believe are true just because I'm better. It's just about the data, and I'm always open to accepting more perspective so I can improve the data I have before me.