06 Maestro
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ORIGINAL: 06 Maestro
The only way that makes sense to me is that the majority of Matrix customers never even look at the forums. They do not decide to buy a game based on forum activity so they do not even have an opportunity to click on the "buy now" link. They simply search for the game online and go directly to the store.
That is a foreign idea to me. It never even occurred to me that is how most people do their game purchasing-apparently it must be so.
I don't see forum activity as particularly relevant, some games generate long and long-lasting discussion and some don't. Obviously forum activity will die off quickly if the game is total cr*p, but in some cases there just isn't that much to say and in others excellent titles never really took off, for whatever reason. In some cases as well, such as Field of Glory, TOAW, Close Combat and Harpoon most of the forum traffic is elsewhere.
From what I have seen at this site a dead forum is strongly indicative of a lousy game. In some cases it is just an older game that players have lost interest in. Of course, what is lousy to one may be great to another, but there are averages in preferences too.
Of course, your point in other forum traffic is very correct in some cases. However, that group could be further sub-divided by games that are only sold at Matrix (TalonSoft titles) and games that have multiple outlets. Some of those older games must have many dozens of forums each. Some spread of forum activity would be expected-even with first time buyers of an older title. Ageod is a special case-there may be good reason for someone to prefer to buy their game at Matrix even though most forum activity for any of their games is at the Ageod site.
About the "buy now" link; during these sales it is likely that games would be purchased without actually hitting that link. If you are buying 2 or more games, there is no point in returning to the forum to click on that link. Come to think of it-I have likely done this myself while making a multi game purchase. In my case, that still would have been a small percentage of games purchased.
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I have not had much bug trouble, although I have had CTDs with Forge of Freedom. Not enough to worry about or even complain about, probably 3-4 in the 2-3 years I have owned it. 
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