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Post by CrutchCricket on Sept 18, 2018 13:10:55 GMT
A thousand voices yelling legitimate, if inflamed criticism are not immediately invalidated by one voice threatening violence. You separate (and condemn) the crazy. Then you carry on. A mob of angry gamers can't necessarily do this in the momentum of the protest because mobs are dumb and lack this type of discernment, no matter how intelligent their members might be. But what's the developers' excuse? Excuse is exactly what pointing to these crazies is- an excuse to dismiss valid criticism because there's a crazy in the crowd.
Note the flip side (when it actually works the way it's supposed to)- Heir and Price were BioWare and ArenaNet respectively. Should we have held those entire companies responsible for their racism and attacking fans with feminist bullshit? No, and unlike randos on the Internet, those people were specifically hired by an organization and representing them at the time. The developers did what was right in this case- they cut out the bad element and carried on. Would that we could shut down the crazies in our ranks so easily. But just because we can't doesn't mean we're all to be painted with teh same brush.
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Post by hawkster94 on Sept 19, 2018 8:52:25 GMT
I see no good reason to coddle up to consumers when majority of them proved themselves to be immature on social media. And in case anyone says it, I don't believe in such things as "online personalities". There are legitimate issues with how Bioware design their games, but pinning the blame on "feminist bullshit" or "SJWs" shows utter lack of nuance. Its bad enough to try to read/watch sincere critiques when there's a sizeable number of people blaming it on "SJWs" (I look at anyone who uses that word legitmetaly with suspicion)
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Post by abedsbrother on Sept 25, 2018 16:12:41 GMT
I see no good reason to coddle up to consumers when majority of them proved themselves to be immature on social media. And in case anyone says it, I don't believe in such things as "online personalities". There are legitimate issues with how Bioware design their games, but pinning the blame on "feminist bullshit" or "SJWs" shows utter lack of nuance. Its bad enough to try to read/watch sincere critiques when there's a sizeable number of people blaming it on "SJWs" (I look at anyone who uses that word legitmetaly with suspicion) People like that should be told to "not buy the game," because that seems to be an appropriate virtue signal that in no way impacts game sales.
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