11 cameras being made known as failures to a single individual, personally, is a lot. Not being a go-to guy for advice, I only know of three others (plus mine is four) in my home town alone. I count that as a lot, too, especially given the relative youth of the camera. Of course I'm aware of a great many more failed cameras as a result of my participation in the x100forum.com.
On the internet it certainly is true that people will problems gravitate to forums and thus the incidence of problem can seem higher than it is across the entire, real, community of users.
But what concerns me is how many cameras of regular forum members - not the "sign up the instant I have a problem" type of member - that we've seen.
Regular forum members might not be statistically representative of the entire population of users because they tend to be more active camera users, or at least more active camera discussers
- but they should not be visited by a higher than normal rate of camera failure.
If you look at the number of x100forum.com users who have had a camera fail *after* they've been a member for some time I do not believe you can come to any other conclusion other than that there is a problem affecting a very large number of cameras, geographically dispersed evenly around the world.
It's like the NEX-5N clicking video problem, but worse, in that it disables the camera's core functionality. Sony doesn't announce a recall but instead fixes cameras, calling the fix euphemistically a "performance upgrade". Issuing a recall would mean fixing many more cameras. Fujifilm is playing the same game.
One can only hope that Fujifilm treats X100 owners better than the stated warranty would imply and fix these cameras when they are out of warranty because very clearly the failure is a manufacturing defect quite unlike a random component failure.