YongYea's take on Kotaku's Andromeda Development article

fatherjerusalem well, realistically I'm less likely to post here. I check to see if there are any DLC news since at least one of you has ME twitter accts on push and will post immediately if something new comes up. You can post to your heart's content, friend. I'm not here to change hearts or minds. I do thank you for appreciating my "powers" though.

I guess you at least consider me the "senate."

Monica21 You're correct about point #1. Neutral and negative posts are still brigaded and it takes a while for those to rise up. Pro-ME:A posts are upvoted right away, thankfully. There's more variety in Andromeda threads than OT nostalgia threads.

I'd imagine there's a great variety of opinions from people who like the game but what I have seen so far is those people coming to this thread to attack. And I agree with your point, you are not required to justify your personal preferences to random strangers.

"Yeah, sure" Yep we have more content over there. You're welcome anytime.

Thanks, but I've been there. I'm one of the people you were so happy about driving away. No thanks.

Very true. I agree very much. 

I'm going to repeat what a wrote months ago:

Having a difference of opinion does not mean that someone has to be wrong: people like different things. Some people like blood orange and others do not: this does not mean that either party has bad taste, just that they have different tastes. You don't like Mass Effect: Andromeda? That's fine. You hate Mass Effect: Andromeda? That's fine. I like Mass Effect: Andromeda. That's also fine. I love Mass Effect: Andromeda? That's also fine. We simply have different opinions and tastes in games. 

This isn't a war we need to wage: it's a video game. We may want different things and our feedback might reflect that but there's no reason to start insulting and attacking each other over this. We can have civil conversations and discussions. Direct our feedback at the developers, share and discuss it with other. There's nothing constructive or positive to be gained from making the forums hostile by putting each other down. This applies across the board both to people who feel negatively towards the game and people who feel positively towards the game.  

Well, at least you are happier here. I'm glad you found what you were looking for. Cheers!

How it is and how it will always be.

You have my genuine sympathies. It's never pleasant to see the sea of nastiness that these kinds of things can become and it's even less pleasant to find yourself in a dinghy in it. 

Like other medias, video games have a magic to them that can be both wondrously positive and horribly negative. I saw so many cases of the latter on Telltale's TWD forums that I left the forums in its entirety until recently and even so, I remain mostly a lurker. There were people who acted as if any choice made against one of the fictional characters was an insult or punch thrown at a real person and warranted the same kind of defense against the perpetrator. It was as if these fictional characters in this fictional game were deserving of common decency and real people who'd simply made a different choice or had a different perception of those fictional characters were not.  

I'm glad that I was just a lurker during the time of the endings because I'd likely have been swept away in that sea and become a wave myself. I'll be honest and say that I don't even know if I'd be able to admit to that like you have. You have my admiration for that. I've seen few people who can do that and it's something I've always respected. 

If it's any consolation, here is one poster who feels the forums are better for having you amongst its posters. 

So you don't believe a bias can swing?  You don't believe in a backlash reaction?  The problem is too much of the game media is just editorial... opinions being pushed either for or against games rather than a journalistic focus on the facts and on checking those facts.  An opinionated "report" hits the air and they copy it incessantly... not just copy it... they magnify it.  A meme results in more and more exaggerated memes.  The thing snowballs.  It started with ME:A before the game was even realeased... opinions about moving to a new galaxy as a response to avoiding the endings, etc.  The game was being set up as having to meet an unbelievably high standard (unachievable standard, really) in order to just bat even... to undo the damage of the ME3 ending fiasco.  Editorials going on about moving to Andromeda as being unavoidably lore breaking and lame and opinions stating that they should just declare a canon ending, etc. all ran rampant in the media before the game was released.  So, when those same "reporters" went into the trial and the game did not meet that standard... they gave it lower scores... for many, not super low scores, but fairly low scores for their "average"... and a fan base primed to be very critical just snowballed everything.  The whole issue went OVER THE TOP... and it hasn't been reasonable every since.

Regardless, the media should not get a pass for doing things like having opinion vids run automatically after genuine information vids on the game... and that happens frequently to me on YouTube.  When I'm looking for info on how to get into a secret vault room in the game, I'm perfectly legitimate in objecting to having a "Andromeda is a disaster" vid automatically follow.  I should be able to decide whether or not I want to read an opinionated editorial by manually clicking on it... but no, clicks mean money... so the whole reporting of games is falling into this sort of cesspool of opinion.  When my avatar is taken from a forum site and posted on Twitter by a reporter whose intent was to ridicule me among his reporter buddies, I have every right to object to that.

You're so adamant about not giving the developers any sort of "break" - but you're just so forgiving of the gaming reporters... my questions is WHY?

Wait don't you also like the game?

Lol new clips?! * goes to YouTube*

Let's hope it's better than the Force Awakens.