The forums seems to do just that mock the game developers because they aren’t catering to your specific needs in terms of design or gameplay. And not just mocking them but blatantly accusing them of not playing the game they help make and design.
Maybe this forums or this “community” deserve some attacking from game developers like from Mike Ybarra calling him out.
Constructive criticism vs. destructive criticism
You may encounter feedback that’s portrayed as constructive criticism but is actually just veiled negative comments. This type of feedback is what’s called destructive criticism. Unlike constructive criticism, destructive criticism is feedback that isn’t designed to help you improve and grow into a better person, employee, or friend. Instead, destructive criticism is:
Intended as a personal attack
Formatted to harm someone’s self-esteem
Public
Not specific or actionable
Hypercritical or needlessly nit-picky
The forums loves to pretend that what they are giving are actually constructive criticism when in fact it is destructive criticism and not proper constructive criticism.
For what, when there are already a bunch of white knights as defense who feel personally attacked when others criticize the game and question the competence of the ones who are making the game?
“Game garbage” like what? Everyone seems to be having a great experience and the retention rate is higher than any previous modern expansions that are on the records.
If it’s deserved, idk why it should be an issue. I criticize any game i play and blame the devs for making stupid decisions regarding it.
Who should i blame? The janitor?
That seems to be true for several classes. There isn’t even any assigned class dev for all classes, they have shared. That just means the dev has a golden child and a red headed step one.
I don’t care.
If this is specific to the Asmongold comment, he doesn’t really play the game anyway now, so does it matter?
You may encounter feedback that’s portrayed as constructive criticism but is actually just veiled negative comments. This type of feedback is what’s called destructive criticism. Unlike constructive criticism, destructive criticism is feedback that isn’t designed to help you improve and grow into a better person, employee, or friend. Instead, destructive criticism is:
Intended as a personal attack
Formatted to harm someone’s self-esteem
Public
Not specific or actionable
Hypercritical or needlessly nit-picky
Big difference between a real constructive criticism versus that of destructive criticism and which most of the cases are just that destructive criticism.
Say what you will but most of the time the forums just give destructive criticism and pretend that it is constructive criticism when it’s not.
Not gonna lie.mostly deserved.Seeing the state of the game and as of right now its the worst its been in around 9 years a lot of what I and others have dished out which is basically our own Frustrations they honestly need to see this.Learn from it become better do better.We expext them to listen not ignore we exxpect them to offer a gaming experience which most of us signed up for many many years ago.We don’t Expect Rushed content riddled with bugs and a lot of those bugs remain left to gather dust and are all recent ones btw.We Don’t want content added back to the game in poorly mishandled ways such as Tier 3 which honestly they deserve all that negativety and then some.They need to stop going on a Nostalgia trip and bringing back old out dated content and calling it “Content” over giving players actual content.What have we gotten from 5 Patches of Dragonflight that you can consider content besides the 2 Raids?. Time Rifts Afker Heaven for full benefits who are all now basically AFK @ the Dreamsurge Hub doing the same thing. Some old content from the past rehashed to get people distracted from the lack of actual content which is why Tier 3 came back into existence in the worst format possible . Then we get with 10.1 one of the most overtuning patches as far as enemy difficulty goes compared to how player power progression is concerned which honestly is barely noticeable from normal to heroic Shadowlands gear for most of the 8 classes I play.
Zaralek Caverns by far is the most overtuned rushed zone they have done with the bulk of it being forced yes you read that right Forced players to find a group just to accomplish some world quests or even to kill a rare ( Tanks dont have an issue there dps and healers never stood a chance unless they were full mythic+/myth raid geared even then it was rough) and then we get a 20+ currency dump of dare I say it WoW’s worst currency idea let alone an MMO’s idea of all time Crests.Whoever thought this was fun cool new hip radical etc does nto deserve to be in the industry as far as I am concerned.For one you limited it for anyone but the Meta Players PvP Mythic+ and Raders who drowned in them compared to players like me who don’t waste there time or have different goals over that content we basically get the snail trail every expansion as punishment for not being Obedient sheep which also needs to change I as a casual play should not be on par with a Mythic raider or mythic15+ player from world content but Normal to Heroic geared within a slightly slower time frame.That wont happen due to Elitism not allowing it.Back to the crests.we as casuals up until 10.1.7 were limited to 2 basic lowest quality crests most would not even bothere to keep and most did not if they raided and did anything meta but we had to farm and scrounge for most of the week just to get maybe 1 item to rank 8 if that.Then came the nerf to the Loamm vendor who intern instead of letting casuals upgrade crests to the Heroic level were give the best troll ive seen in a while of the vendor only offering to downgrade the best crests outside of the mythic level ones into the lower tier all the way down t Whelpling.Then you put a limiter on Drake crests that after a certain period of weeks allowed yes they allowed us to farm more than a certain amount after X amount of time had past and by that I mean all the people who zerg content got there 15+'s done the new raid was beaten by 200+ guilds and everyone who is in the meta circlr where blizzard btw wants you to be are satisfied then us peasant casualsas we are referred to everywhere finally get the second weakest crest that those above already vendor every chance they get just to scrape out gear up a few item levels and by doing 20x more work than those who do what is expected.
Point being if they did not warrant anything from us 99/100 times they would not recieve it .Any they would recieve would be from a very low minority and would be overlooked by blizzard.But seeing that in the last 10 years more or less the game going the way ithas you can’t throw any shade at us for how we communicate our grief mainly because we love ths game and don’t want to see it be tortured this way. If anyone reading this can’t understand that then you are honestly not a real fan and I don’t think any point you make holds water.I am going on over 10 almost 11 years of playing this game and about 5 years + of Warcraft 1 through 3 and about 8 years a long with Diablo 2 which is my second game from the Original Blizzard IP that I am more than still addicted too.
So if you want to add anything with this your own perspective etc I will gladly read it. Thanks for the topic and I hope this enlightens some people.
