Thundergod wrote:
Explain how that's "only hear[ing] negatives"? Because I think the responses regarding mechanics and problems downloading/playing the game are about what one would expect at that stage. I suspect almost no one had actually finished the game with full points in the first 33 hours since release, and yet the response was overwhelmingly positive anyway. I certainly understand wanting to hear good things, and I think as people actually finish the game we're seeing what we would have seen along those lines, but I don't understand the insistence that the responses have been negative. They haven't.
Ok, I stand corrected. I didn't go back over the posts and double-check the posts. However, I didn't insist that the responses had all been negative. I asserted that if you only hear negatives it can be upsetting, but I meant this generally rather than specifically. My point is that Tlaero certainly felt she was hearing a lot of negative feedback and it upset/angered her. And though I see your point, I still feel we should be understanding of her reaction, and empathetic/reconciliatory, rather than being critical of her reaction. I'm a rational person, but I understand that emotions are often irrational, and Tlaero is someone who has given us so much, I think she deserves better. I see that some of the objection to her reaction could be considered an attempt at reconciliation. I.e. "You shouldn't be hurt, we just haven't had time to appreciate the game yet and were not intending to give the impression we didn't like the game." I understand that tact, but in my experience, telling a woman or an artist that they shouldn't feel the way they are feeling never helps them to not feel that way.
In any case, I think many of the posts since Tlaero's (I didn't double-check, shit - am I wrong about that too
) have either been outpourings of appreciation, and/or sincere attempts to apologize for upsetting her, so hopefully we'll make her feel we're an audience worth creating for again.
TheBrain wrote:
@tlaero, seeing the other posts made before your reaction, (thundergod summed it up pretty well above...) I have the feeling a large part of the negativity you experienced was from my post. While I personally think there was not much of a negative tone in my post, I'm sorry if you took it that way. Where you read "It's good BUT", I really meant "It's good, so please take the rest of my post with a few grains of salt, since it doesn't mean it's a bad game at all".
I admit not showering you with praise or talking about the things I liked about the game, for which I'm sorry, but this is more a personal defect than anything else. In general I don't give much praise: say, where after a good dinner someone else might say "oh my god, this is the best food I have ever tasted", the best you would get out me would be something like "it was ok/good". So please don't take it the wrong way, you wouldn't be the first one to point out that I don't focus on the positive. If it is any consolation, I can assure you I'm much more critical about my own work.
@TheBrain, If I were Tlaero, I would really appreciate this post. Nice.
. I guess my point is that a bit more variety wouldn't hurt.
