Gotta take a couple issues with this.
Where there is smoke there is fire is actually falacious reasoning. There are issues, I don't think thats in dispute anywhere. So I find folks acting like people are not agreeing or seeing issues pretty disengenious.
The issues don't make the game unplayable. There have been some, more than usual, outages. Part of that is record user counts part is the communication errors Brayben talked about, some might be optimization but I'll remain Hella skeptical of research on a product from the outside.
I agree but the tall nail also gets the hammer.
However the irony here is past 11. The naked hypocrisy I hope is unintentional. Supporting people who don't like a game complaining but not people who hold the other opinion?
The forums are 1% or less 9f any active player playerbase but its for everyone who wants to talk publicly with other enthusiasts not just for negative venting.
If you don't like it, act in a manner you expect will have an effect to change it.
I don't have to be paid to defend a product if I like it, anymore than I need to be paid to criticize it if I don't.
If I see a thing I enjoy being unfairly criticized I'll speak up because it's a public perception I care to throw my voice against.
Again you seem to have a strong double standard, critics should voice criticism but those who are happy should remain silent?
I'm generally a product advocate for things I like because that activity pumps sales, and that extends the life of the products I want to see continue living.
If I'm critical in also trying to make changes to extend the life of a thing I enjoy, or I'm dropping one bomb and I'm gone for a product I want to warn others about.
One ongoing theme I'm seeing is people who are critical of the game don't want to be criticized themselves. Thats a double standard no one should be comfortable with.
At what point did I tell OP to be silent?
At what point is there a double standard?
I'll give you that my post
obviously indicates my own displeasure with EDO, but at no point did I tell OP
not to share their opinion. What I
did say was that their question (the topic subject) has an answer:
no, you're not out of line with the forum,
yes, forums typically feature
majority negative commentary. That's normal. If OP expects rainbows and sunshine (I can't imagine they do), that'd be silly.
Instead, the impression
I got is that OP is surprised at
how much negativity is here. I proceeded to explain why.
I then added that, if your objective is to be positive and provide praise, you can certainly
do that on the forums...just don't expect much in the way of feel-good feedback. It happens, but rarely, which is why white knights seem like they circle-jerk...because there are so few of them to begin with. Likewise, trolls look the same way because...
gasp...there's not that many of them, too. Most of the forum-ites are just folks debating 'till the cows come home something they can't objectively affect. Which is fine.
That's what forums are for.
We're doing that exact thing
right now. I have no doubt that my opinion has
zero impacti on yours (or anyone else's) decision to publicly support, decry, buy, refund, whatever...that's not how this works. How it
does work is sharing and, well, some listen and most don't.
And you need to be ok with that. OP's self-opinion is a little low, cheer up, if you love EDO...GREAT. A lot of folks don't (at the moment). THAT'S OK, TOO.
All I did was explain how to make the
most of your opinion
if you're seeking for it to have some sort of tangible impact on FDev, good, bad, or otherwise.
