Originally Posted by Pandemonica
You may think your many, but in the grand scheme of things, the number of players, the number of forum members, and the number of players that never even bother with the forums. You are really a vocal minority. I have spent the last couple days reading the forums, and it seems to be a large number of posts, by a small group of people. Posting over and over and over. Which don't get me wrong, is very common in game forums. And every one, they all claim the are "speaking for the community"....

The number of people isn't the problem. You should look into sample sizes for opinion polling.

As long as the sample is sufficiently representative you can make very accurate predictions with very few people. There are calculators for determining sample sizes for polls (i.e. https://www.surveysystem.com/sscalc.htm). For a population of 5.000.000 and a confidence Level of 99% you only need a sample of about 2000 people!

2000 people might be a vocal minority or they might be an accurate representation of 5.000.000 people. It all depends on how good the sample is.