What do you define as fanbase? Every buyer of the game? I don't know the sales figures of <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/div.gif" alt="" />, but I assume it's something with 6 numbers. Last time I checked there aren't this amount of people on the forum. In all practicality, the number of active people on this forum doesn't make much difference in that sales number.
The power of this fanbase doesn't come from numbers, they are irrelvant. The power comes from the willingness of the Larians to listen. They determine the power we have, not the other way around.
Look at it this way, there are 500 or so members of this forum. I would imagine that each 1 of those people has posted some sort of opinion at 1 time or another. If each 1 of those 500 told 1 person about the game thats 1000. So we can assume that this number steamrolls and turns into hundreds of thousands,by word of mouth alone. I know that personally I have told more than 20 people about this game,and they are playing it! Those numbers are by no means irrelevent! When it breaks down to brass tacks, the numbers are what makes or break a game! Or you could think about it this way. If each of those 500 members paid 40$ for their copy of the game. Thats 20,000$! I am only counting what I see as membership. That is what counts,I call that a fanbase! If a company, any company does not listen to what their customers are telling them, they are setting themselves up for failure. Simple.
