Originally Posted by Sharp
I would ideally like to have access to the dataset so I could draw my own conclusions from it, but I will (for now) accept these numbers as given. I will add that I am not entirely convinced the language used in that survey passes a test for bias, but I don't want to be stuck quibbling about minutiae all day. With that being said, this still all comes back to my initial point that I made 2 pages ago however of, "even if it is what all of the players want, we don't know if it is what Larian wants," and until they clarify what they are and are not willing to budge on, its just a matter of us going back in forth in circular arguments.

Fair. We have some idea of what Larian wants (e.g., "missing is not fun"), but definitely not a full picture.
There is definitely a lot of circular arguments going on in these forums. Hopefully the next update from Larian will give us information on their plan/things they refuse to budge on, so we can better focus discussion.