You’ve studied game design? What published games have you worked on?
Yes. I’ve been studying it for about 25 years.
Professionally? None.
Why would that matter?
Because being an armchair quarterback every sunday doesn’t qualify you to coach an NFL team.
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Okay. But I’ve guessed more gameplay changes than the rest of the community combined for Overwatch, ditto for PlanetSide 1, and probably got some changes into HellDivers 2, and DarkTide.
I also wrote a TRIBES 1 mod back in the day which had 40 servers running it, about 3 years of tournament play between 20 teams.
I also spent the last 2 years on Twitter interacting with every Games Journalist, Game Dev, and Community Manager I could manage.
So yeah, I dabble.
Confirmation bias. You want to think you’re an expert. You write so much that every once in a while an idea you have slips through. You only save the links to your correct predictions.
Again, you sound like an average plat player giving their opinions. They aren’t bad opinions, but that’s the context of them.
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Says the guy who thinks SR is an adequate replacement.
Oh well, still more correct answers than everybody else combined.
The idea that I need to literally be Clairvoyant is rather silly.
No, says the person who thinks masters and GM players have better opinions than plat players.
My god your ego. You saying you’re correct doesn’t make it true.
Ironic.
I’m only giving my opinion, just like you. I’m just self-aware enough to not pretend my personal opinion is a fact.
No, I’m showing sources, and you’re not reading them.
You just don’t like my facts.
A few posts that had a couple of changes that went to production out of tens of thousands of posts is not a good track record.
Just the first post alone is at least 70 changes
You don’t actually know what confirmation bias means, do you? You have over 75,000 posts on this forum. Throw enough at the wall, eventually a small number of ideas get through.
I’ll hand it to you though, you have some good ideas on things like mastery challenges, etc. Balance changes though, are pretty average for a mid-ranked player.
I’m saying it doesn’t matter.
More than the rest of the community combined, is more.
Doesn’t matter how many I get wrong, in that context.
And I’m saying more in sheer volume doesn’t mean anything if the percent of things you say correct is lower. Throwing as much as you can against the wall and hoping an occasional good idea comes through doesn’t make a person someone to listen to.
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Here’s an example. Had a Rank #1 Mercy player saying they were better at Mercy balance stuff.
But,
I “guessed” that exact specifics of almost every current Mercy change since the start of OW2.
So who is correct in that scenario?
So basically even in a near perfect example where I’m right.
You think I’m still wrong?
Not at all. I’m saying you’ve made 76,000 posts here alone. The chances of you finding a few dozen that show correct predictions is high. You’ve made exponentially more bad predictions than good, but you aren’t going to remember those, because of confirmation bias.
So your standard of evidence, is that unless I have literal physchic powers, then some guy who hasn’t ever studied gamedev in their life, knows more then me about gamedev, purely because they “click head gud” better than me?