There is a lot of wrong with that. Where would we, as a humanity be, if everyone had this attitude? The fact people see room for improvements and trying to push it there is the only way.
We, as a humanity, would probably be much further along than what we are today. Just look at the politics today compared to in the past. Before, people still had their differences, but they worked together across party lines to get a good solution for everyone. Today, it is either "my way or we will shut down the government by de-funding it". The focusing on the negativity is also slowly bringing back Europe towards pre-WW2 thinking which more and more countries now getting "extremist" leaderships due to people focusing on the negative parts (immigration in this case) rather than the positive. I not sure about you, but in my book that does not serve anyone any good.
I would expect everyone would like to hint developers what to focus on, but you make it harder for them to get priorities right (like the current priorities are hardly right...)
Who says that you (and people with similar mindset like you) are the ones who should set the agenda on what the developers should focus on? Just because we all don't agree with YOUR priorities doesn't mean we are wrong or have less of a right to tell them so. By suggesting that people who are thinking differently than you are lesser people (thoughts/ideas etc.) you are borderline to something we are a human society should have moved well past a long time ago. You make it sound like your ideas are the only ones and everyone else who has different ideas should not speak because that is confusing the developers so they can't focus on YOUR priority list. We are over a million people owning and playing this game. The fact that you say this is greatly offensive to me (and probably many others as well).
Criticism or feedback is good but the way it is presented will be decisive on how the developers will take it and act on it. There are tons of threads here with good, constructive feedback and requests. The reason those threads are good is because everyone adds their opinion or build upon the initial suggestion instead of ❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎ it down with arguments like "they first need to focus on this and that because it is game breaking for me". A very good example of a thread that developed in a positive way was the one with more toilet management. It started out with adding lumber tools to the janitors and cost for consumables like toilet paper to the toilet being shut down if not cleaned on a timely basis an worked its way to gardening and flower care with watering systems etc. All discussions were positive and excited. There are many threads like this one on the forums which is good to see, but they are becoming less frequent due to a certain number of people not liking that the thread is focusing on items not on their priority list. Compare that to a thread that immediately becomes toxic because the OP did not share the same values as you do and thus "confuses the developers" to focus on your items.
As a developer I would rather focus on the positive criticism as they know it would make a lot of people happy instead of trying to please a select few that will be unhappy no matter what they do. As a developer, and human person, you will quickly end up in a bad spiral with never getting anything positive back. Why bother trying to please people that can't be pleased and that are negative by nature? Change your attitude and you will see more good things happening to you.
Frontier doesn't sell (no one does) over a million copies of a game if it is fundamentally bad like you and your peers are suggesting/telling us. It just don't happen, especially today with the Internet and how quickly words are spread today. This is one of the main reasons why RCTW did not sell well at all.
means a lot to hear from you!
