there is a secret number.........that I assume only HT knows.........which directly represents the exact amount of NEW customers that is needed...to balance out the old customers who we lose to attrition.
if that number is not met... eventually cutbacks begin.....and you know the rest of the story. that's business. I offered HT a great promotional tool...that's free.
I stopped reading at your "quake" comment....for obvious reasons. spare me your demographic spin.
Well the I guess some more thought should have been put into the continuous rant that you ever so annoyingly keep repeating.
Just a guess, but I think HTC has a pretty good handle on what they are & need to be doing. They've been around long enough. Although your logic is correct as far as the #s needed and so forth, so please don't think I'm knocking you for that. Hell, you came up with an idea, which is more than a lot of people choose to do. Fact of the matter is, the justin.tv thing would do just that, turn it into something HTC has done so great to avoid, i.e Quake.
Now on a side not, have you ever though, that what you are mentioning is the exact reason the "old timers" are leaving? Since this new influx of players have came in, the game as significantly changed. A lot of the vets didn't agree with them, like them, and the new players are literally killing the game in some eyes. The hoarding, hangar killing, ho'ng, the list in continuous.
So while your effort should be applauded, again I say when trying for something like this, you really need to think it through, which could be why HTC never got back to you. (That or maybe they think its just as crazy as I do?)
Just my opinion