(09-23-2014, 11:39 AM)Jrakh Nunh Wrote: As I said it doesn't count in the way in which you're trying to claim it does. You're free to agree to disagree, of course, but as someone who has invested in quite a number of different MMO's over the years and currently devotes my MMO time between FFXIV and WoW I'd like to think I'm reasonably aware of the popularity of specific in-game activities and features within the MMO's that I've played.
I think the Great Housing Battle of 2014 will be a footnote in a decade, just like the fishing contest is now. We're discussing peak-interest, though. Of COURSE the fishing contest that's now years old is going to be under populated. It's no different than Gurubashi Arena now, where you're lucky to see one or two people camping the box. Doesn't mean it wasn't highly contested before, though, just like houses are.
We're getting really off course, though, and I'm not trying to make this into the argument it's becoming. Hard to tell, I know, but I'm just saying that in a patch or two it should be water under the bridge.
I'm reading these posts and can remember clearly the same things being leveraged with the log-in issues at launch, the 90k issues in early access, Titan Hard Mode, etc.