Quote Originally Posted by Loony BoB View Post
The problem was that everyone and their uncle were "undecided" until Phase Four. As pointed out earlier, the demand didn't jump up three fold, it jumped up five fold. Everyone was saying this relaunch would be fairly doomed because of the tainting that came about from 1.x's launch, and that the game would lose out significantly because of that alone. It doesn't look like any of these predictions (which were happening until Phase Four) came true. They made a game that is better than they thought, if anything.
Who's "everyone"? Also companies like these have teams dedicated to market researching and forecasting sales, they get paid lots to do it too...