Quote Originally Posted by sapi
It's a simple fact that the vast majority of gamers do not visit online forums.
No it isn't.

Quote Originally Posted by sapi
If you're looking for proof, consider the fact that only 847 members have visited these forums in the past 24 hours.

Take a very conservative estimate of that as 10% of the total number of people visiting these forums, and you still only have an audience of under ten thousand people.
What exactly is this "conservative estimate" based on, then? Because you can't multiply integers and hot air like that, it's simply not mathematically correct.

Quote Originally Posted by sapi
All you need to do is have a look around your friends, and you'll see what I mean. Sure, around half of them play games semi-seriously. But of that half, only a handful would even consider visiting a forum for that game.
I have a bunch of gamer friends, too, and with the exception of the one guy-with-no-internet-access, they ALL visit forums to keep up with the games they are playing. All of them.

My unsourced, empirical datapoint is bigger than your unsourced, empirical datapoint. So there.

Quote Originally Posted by sapi
You're welcome to try your strategy - no one can stop you from doing that - but it might be worth while taking a nice dose of common sense as you do so.
Quote Originally Posted by Albert Einstein
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
So, how old are you, then? Time for an update, perhaps?