Disclaimer:
To those who are about to comment “I didn’t read it”, please refrain from commenting, since saying “I didn’t read it” is not actually contributing to the discussion, and you’re more or less spamming/trolling, which goes against the CoC.
On with the thread.
There are two (well three, but the shills are exactly like the first category i’m going to discuss) types of people in the world when it comes to criticism to games.
1. Those who just spams "IT SUCKS" ...
…over and over again or try to hide it, while not moving on from something they claim it to “suck” though implication or explicitly said, and as well harassing anybody who likes something they think it sucks or call them out on their hypocrisy. Only for them then turn around to say the tired performative excuse of “i WaNt iT to SuCeEd!”… Relying on people’s benefit of the doubt or hoping they don’t notice the cognitive dissonance between their words.
I think it’s extremely obvious that i’m saying they lack the mental capacity and easily offended, while saying the other group is offended. Considering a few of them from this group, expose themselves to me on this thread. You can tell by the ones who shout …
- “THIS IS A WASTE OF TIME!!”,
- “Wold Salad” or “i didn’t read it”
- make up strawmans
- Say i’m overgeneralizing without explaining how or why, or even where, just saying it,
- Throw Ad-homs like “Go outside”
- or take what mild praise i’ve given that doesn’t even have to do with the game itself even at the end of the thread here and try twisting it as if i’m a shill.
…and trying other ways to basically target and incite hatred to harass and ruin the thread’s discussion. I wasn’t originally focusing on them as much i do now, but i guess they want that so… da da.
2. And then there's people who give well done, constructive criticisms
… that not only have people consider the arguments made and come to their own conclusions based on those, basically having the capacity to change minds, which also in turn, has the capacity to convince Blizzard maybe to consider it, but it also shows the user making those arguments, are not afraid to move on if needed. And also understand if somebody else likes the game they don’t like as much.
The constructive people are what i would genuinely consider of wanting WoW to succeed. And would actually call what they said, “constructive critics”. And i meant that in a good way. Simply because they actually care enough to want to see success or improvement to a point where they will be constructive with their feedback with a game they once love. That and they know that anger and force, doesn’t always gets the message across pretty well.
Sadly, there isn't many constructive critics out there,
…and instead, there’s more of the or infact, too many of the… i guess no other way to say it but… WoW haters (the former).
See, i don’t consider constructive critics to be haters. Hatred has more to do with willful inaction of something they not only dislike, but wanting to judge others morally if they agree or disagree. They are not willing to make peace with anything or anybody until they get what they claim to want, or if it makes only them happy, not taking everybody else into consideration.
Now keep in mind, i'm not a fake positive "everything is fine" guy ..
…while World of Workcraft is burning, and hiss and spit venom at anybody who says otherwise like a snake protecting it’s eggs. I don’t own stock into WoW and personally to me, while i do genuinely like WoW and love to thank it for changing some aspects of my video game hobby playing for the better such as paying better attention to things, as well help my writing and inspire me to use blender much more regularly… i still keep in mind that this is a video game. And there are problems with it that i too like to see solved, or improved.
And also, i just came back from my 8th break from WoW like 4-5 days ago, if that’s telling how i think of WoW these days. I don’t hate it, i don’t particularly love it as much, i think it’s just okay, but can be boring at times. So, yes improvements please.
Constructive criticism effects public opinion about the game both inside and outside, that being the people who bought it and the ones who don’t. Not only causing people to unsub, but for outside people to not buy. This is what i meant by having the capacity to convince them. Blizzard isn’t going to listen much if you’re still paying them, but to only complain and play the game you dislike. And if you think this is untrue, why reviews are a thing then? Why people make constructive opinions on things? Because they know it has the power to indirectly effect their wallet.
Bit of a TL;DR for those who skipped ahead.. (minimum reading knowledge required)
I can recognize that if i want something to change, i have to put in actual effort myself to convince those to make those improvements and not just say "It sucks" over and over again and/or attack people who calling me out on it or who likes the game. If it doesn't work in the end, then i must know when it's time to move on. Or learn to make peace with it in someway. **And no, it doesn't have to be in detail either if you don't want to.**And how ironic that in a thread where i basically ask “Do not attack people while making your critique”, i got attacked for daring to asking them to do the most simple thing in the world? make constructive feedback? lol?.. Thank you for showing why this is thread needed to exist.
And to those who genuinely understand my thread, or the general premise of it and wanted better feedback, you have my thanks. Have a taco.