New thread for the pessimists to congregate, organize, and maybe get a point across.

As per JRandall0308's request, new thread.

So...  I've been trying to think of how to explain why people like myself express ourselves the way we do about the state of the game, past and present.

I'd like to start with this youtube video.  It's this guy on youtube I watch because he's entertaining, smart, and talks about investment type stuff through mostly MTG cards (though the video is talking about the pokemon tcg.  

But give it a listen and open your mind to the dialogue beyond just the specific topic he's on, though he does a pretty good job of that himself at the beginning.  Think of how the common themes can translate to this hobby/medium:



A list of conclusions and inferences from the video related to this game:

1)  We're upset because we care.  He makes that pretty well known early on.  And those upset the most are those that care the most for whatever their reasons are for caring as much as they do.  But speaking from both personal experience and a bit of educated/empathetic guessing, it comes from a place of searching (either passively or actively) for something of meaning and stability in a world of meaninglessness and instability, both of which together are a function of sanity.

2)  Another theme toward the end of the video is the idea of acceptance of the things out of your control and that also used to be of something of great importance and meaning to you.  So we're splintered into two groups:  Those who have accepted and those who fight that acceptance.  Those who have accepted the change already moved on.  Good for them.  I envy that ease of being able to accept something so quickly.  So why do others fight it?

Take the poem "Dying of the Light."  Imagine Michael Kane reading it if you happened to have seen Interstellar.  It's a near perfect metaphor.  There are the wise men who know better in their old age (those moving on) and then there are those that feel the rage against the dying of the light (the pessimists/realists).

3)  Why do we rage?  And as another member brought into question, if we care about the game so much but behave in a way that may, even just a little big, keep people from playing or drive a small portion away, why would we?  Well I think I know why.  It's perhaps to spare other parties the disappointment we experienced.  Those we rarely do drive away are spared the first hand realization of another disappointment:  Disappointment being the what something has to offer being less than what is advertised, whether explicit or implicit.

Admittedly, this is me trying to find the motivation after the action, but it makes sense.  Think about a hobby you used to enjoy but no longer do for whatever reason, or quite simply whose pros are outweighed by the cons now, because of changes out of your control that made it less enjoyable:  Would you recommend it to a friend?  No, you would want them to avoid it so that you don't put them in the position of the disappointment you experienced.

You don't want them to be sucked in by whatever marketing tactics successfully recruit new players or keep present ones or even continue to make money on something that doesn't deserve to be making the money it does anymore.  Because it's a net false perception/negative gain to the person.

In addition to that false perception, more "dying of the light" type behavior comes from fighting against the thing that you can't control.  In this case, what you can't control is the bs of Bioware (I'll skip the list).  Calling them out on these false perceptions/net negatives is this "dying of the light' type behavior, rather than just accepting the bs.

Hopefully some of that made sense.  Maybe others will either add to this skeleton of an argument and/or challenge something and then I can build on that some more.