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Originally Posted by unipus
You'd have to be a pretty bad data scientist to think you could draw any truly useful conclusion from one poll on one fairly insignificant message board. It would be easy to make catastrophically bad missteps from doing so, though!
@Tegyrius - over what period of time are those sales figures? Some of them are pretty damn interesting.
(I'd also say that FL games in general, this one included, do have a strong if slightly obscured OSR essence to them, but that's another topic.)
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Dont agree with you about insignificant message board - that is not what the forum juhlin is. And you can use the poll as a data starting point - FYI keep in mind that polling company's project political trends for the entire country based on samples of a few thousand people. As I said there needs to be more polling done.
Also the kickstarter numbers only show interest in the new version of the game when it was initially pitched to raise money. The question that needs to be determined now - especially before it gets codified into book form - is did the kickstarter population get what they paid for?
If the numbers here are indicative the answer is no.
That is why they need to do polling or have others do it on sites that have T2K players and fans who have seen the V4 and do it before they go to publication of the books.
PDF's are easy to change - I have done it, Raellus did it, etc. - that happens all the time on drivethrurpg.com releases - but its much harder to do it once you have printed books out there.
I know that for a fact - saw the fun one of my professors went thru in college having to send out corrections on a physics book he wrote that had three pages that had major errors on them that he had missed and another ten pages worth of minor corrections that were significant enough that they had to be fixed.