I'm not complaining about the forum - that would be similar to complaining that a septic tank smells...
no? this is the forum, and you complain about the posts on it all the time. So try again.
What I say about the game is that it is what it is, it is the continual insistance that it isn't whatever another dreamed it might, or should, be... Should I lie to myself and insist it be something I've deluded myself into believing it should be?
Who said you should? Nobody is telling you that you should change how you think. You're insisting that the forum change the same way that the people you're complaining about as being the source of the negativity regarding the game (but this is totally not defined as complaining by you) are insisting that the development of the game change.
Something you say they shouldn't do because the game is what it is and always will be that. Yet the forum is what it is as well, and has been what it is since it started. If we believe your statement that the game isn't going to change, what about the forum makes it different that it's not hypocritical to demand your desires of change from the forum vs the forum's desires of change from the game? So long as the game is unchangeable, the playerbase is unchangeable, and so the forum is just as unchangeable since the playerbase is what makes it up.
Wishing that the forum posts would change is no different than wishing that some part of the game would change. Yet you're fine with continually wishing the forum postings would change... despite insisting that the content of those posters in regards to wanting the game to change is wrong.
You can pretend that you enjoy it, but it seems rather obvious that you dont and are just trying to back peddle the obvious hypocrisy. Which is fine, hypocritical posts on the forum is part of the forum's identity. So it fits right in.
It must be dreadful to have to sonsider one who tells the truth to be a troll - have I ever lied about the game, claimed it to be something it isn't? Or expressed disappointment as it isn't what I dreamed it should be? Therin lies the rub, people dream up a vision of what this game ought to be in thier opinion, then complain, continually that the dream isn't realised - all I do is play the game that is on my PC - no dreams...
are you trying to pretend that the current doomism is caused by players wishing that things like powerplay had pvp only and a player driven economy and the such ... and not from horrific performance issues and bugs and broken introduced mechanics and unrealized promises that got scaled back to blank interstitials and outright lies to the players to get sales from a game that wasn't in the state advertised?
because we had all of the wishing the game was something it wasn't before odyssey and the game was doing just fine in terms of player sentiment and reviews and all that. None of that has changed. The current state is not about wishing for things that were never intended to be delivered. So what changed? The playerbase didn't drastically change.
i think your pretend version of reality is opportunistically blind. There have always been complaints about could have's and might have's in the game, but what has led to the current state of Doom are the extreme failures and real issues surrounding this DLC. That's why this is the way it is now and why such situations did not exist like this previously.
