- Nerd Boi
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See the great thing is, which was one of my points, that getting into that network is a fairly easy thing. Make a friend, play some games with them, they know someone else who knows someone else and before you know it you're in a party with the whos who of bungie.net and wetting yourself because zomg its a mod/employee <.<
But that is a network that has been anything up to 10 years in the making now, and I imagine it'd be a chore to build it back up again. Ideally there would be a balance, but I'd stand by the possibly harsh statement that new people are a dime a dozen as long as you're putting out a shiny new game, and unless you do it horribly wrong in which case you'll lose older fans anyway, they won't be hugely picky about things as long as it is new and shiny. Some will, but on balance I think I'd prefer to not grab a potential fan rather than lose an existing one. It is easy to attract new people, rather harder to win them back once you've pushed them away.
EDIT: Of course there probably is a point at which listening to the grouchy old folk of here is outweighed by the masses out there, but eh.
[Edited on 11.10.2011 9:34 PM PST]