Why people always complain.
- Thread starter LameoveR
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People complain because game companies, developers, and publishers promise that their game is going to be the next best thing and the most mind-blowing gaming experience ever.
And they fail to deliver.
If someone promises to cook you a nice breakfast in bed and they bring you a packet of crisps you might just feel like they've not been totally straight with you.
And they fail to deliver.
If someone promises to cook you a nice breakfast in bed and they bring you a packet of crisps you might just feel like they've not been totally straight with you.
Now repeat the same scenario, but this time they have to cook multiple servings of the same breakfast dish to tens of thousands of people. Tens of thousands of people with different preferences, from extreme vegan to "hates anything green on their plate".
You can feed them the finest dish you want but there will be a proportion of the metaphorical breakfast recipients that whine because "it's too salty" or "not salty enough" (examples chosen with great care
), because it completely doesn't suit their diet, or just don't like it so much they equate it to a packet of crisps.The forums here are several hundred people all expecting their breakfast to be delivered to them in bed for the next 10 years, but we all have the same game - or dish - and somehow everyone expects their dish to be handed to them every day as if it were a bespoke meal suiting their every preference.
So the solution is to obviously sit on the forum complaining about this dish not suiting you until poor FD in maid's uniforms (brief mental diversion there) start bringing you your dish - but be happy to ignore the fact that several hundred vegetable-phobes are now being given steamed cabbage for breakfast.
And of course much like this analogy, the majority of forum suggestions are on the same level as someone insisting their breakfast be boiled cabbage for 10 years.
But if they try, then burn the toast and spill the OJ would you still love them for trying?
If they absolutely promised that it would still be great. And right up until they put it on my plate they insisted there was nothing wrong with it, even though the burned toast was obvious, as they were putting on my plate, I'd send it back.
That doesn't work.
The menu is there (many different games), but I order one thing I like. I am ordering egg and chips - I know what I want before I buy. They promise me egg and chips, but don't deliver it. They said it would be egg and chips, but turns out to be peas and potatoes.
When specific game elements are promised but not delivered complaining is quite reasonable.
Sorry bud, you can't buy a game with a development plan spanning another 9 years or so on the premises you know what you're buying. You ordered egg and chips at first, but you'd be pretty ticked off for being brought the same egg and chips for 10 years.
People are asking for development, so they are asking for a different meal as they go. And as per the structure of ED, partially around the kickstarter aspect, an incredible proportion of people think they're best qualified to demand what the next meal would be even if they're recommending boiled, soggy cabbage.
And if you do know what you're buying at the start of a 10 year plan, please can you lend me your crystal ball, because I have better things to use it on - such as winning the lottery and getting my mitts on a new monitor setup.
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Panticus
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But if they try, then burn the toast and spill the OJ would you still love them for trying?
Yes, but not the second and third time.
There are solution(not the best for DEVs) to make happy the majority.
1.Suggestions forum with polls.
2.Poll for chosen suggestions (what would you like to see next patch, chose 2 of 5)
But, even if there would be a big red words "TAKE A PART IN DEVELOPMENT! SUGGEST SOMETHING AND CHOSE SUGGESTIONS" ingame, even then will be some "i was out for 6 months and didn't participate in polls and i don't like what have you done with my game"
Noone could make happy everybody.
1.Suggestions forum with polls.
2.Poll for chosen suggestions (what would you like to see next patch, chose 2 of 5)
But, even if there would be a big red words "TAKE A PART IN DEVELOPMENT! SUGGEST SOMETHING AND CHOSE SUGGESTIONS" ingame, even then will be some "i was out for 6 months and didn't participate in polls and i don't like what have you done with my game"
Noone could make happy everybody.