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For me...

Downtown Abbey is terrible. I watched the entire show because my friends kept saying that it would get better and I was tryin' to like it, but it never got better. From the first episode I was like, 'This is crap...'

For those unfamiliar with the network effect, I'm referring roughly to this (from Wikipedia):

Network effects are typically positive feedback systems, resulting in users deriving more and more value from a product as more users join the same network.

Pretty much the question - I know there are some communities in this one and I've joined them, but I'm just curious in case I missed them when I was browsing servers.

Thanks a bunch!

And what were the dumber lead-ups?

From what I've read it's pretty clear these deals tend to do well by the main metrics companies care about (making lots of money in short order), but I haven't read or seen as much about how many people then become returning customers for the original properties.

Anyone happen to have found any reports/mentions from shareholder meetings about this kinda thing?