Okay, lets leave all the complaints about people's English and take a moment to think about Maths.
If there's a ten to one chance of a crash in a game and a thousand players, this is how it breaks down:
If the chance of an error occuring in the game is 10 to 1, and you have 10,000 players who each play ten games then
- Number of Players Having 10 successful games = 3,486
- Number of Players Having 9 successful games = 3,874
- Number of Players Having 8 successful games = 1,937
- Number of Players Having 7 successful games = 573
- Number of Players Having 6 successful games = 111
- Number of Players Having 5 successful games = 14
- Number of Players Having 4 successful games = 1
I don't know how many copies of DG have sold, but 10,000 seems a very conservative estimate. The point is that simple probability says that even if the chance of error is low, with this number of players, there are plenty of people out there that have had four or more games out of ten error on them. That's more than enough to come onto these boards and justifiably rant about poor quality.
So next time someone complains that the game keeps crashing for them, well they might have exactly the same software that you have, but you're in the lucky 6,000 and they're in the unlucky 700 maybe so don't arbitrarily say that it works for you so they're talking rubbish.
The figures above are a little arbitrary. Maybe the chance of an error is less than 1 in 10, but probably the number of players is a lot more than 10,000 as well. I'm illustrating a point. Also, little differences in hardware or OS can have a big effect.
So a little more sympathy to people with problems is probably in order.
(And before some maths genius adds up my numbers and gets less than 10,000, it's called a rounding error because I can't count 0.6 of a person).
