"leef;578909" wrote:
@Lianara
Clearly the OP is the result, not the cause. You are probably right about it not being the sollution to a healthier admosphere on the forum, neither was your response for that matter. There is no moral high ground.
Perhaps ... But, Op was wrong about groupthink, and Op's (and your) assumptions about motivation of the complaining player base are nothing more than that - an assumption, without anything backing it up. Forums don't break down when people complain about a commercial product. They do break down when posts like OP's start popping up.
Oh, and I can turn around and say that posts of complainers are also clearly the result of mishandled Mod patch.
I don't know if you have ever tried to help people who are complaining about a certain aspect of the game, but i can tell you from my own experience and from what i've read in threads i didnt participate in, that suggestions and other points of view that might help are dismissed easily and often. When you try to help people and get shot in the face for it, it also creates a snowball effect.
You are right that its impossible to prove the snowball effect i discribed, but its highly unlikely that every single person arrived on the same conclusion independently. How many of them arrived on the same conclusion independently is open for debate. I think its mostly the severity of the issue gets exaggerated if many people share the same concern. Again, impossible to prove, but it's most likely happening nontheless.
Where do you get the Highly Unlikely? Just guessing? Maybe it happened maybe not. Maybe 1% maybe 90% , without a way to prove it either way there is no argument to be had.
