"Simmerville;c-18228098" wrote:
Agree it's a good thing there pos and neg threads are separated.
I guess my approach is slightly odd. In the past when buying older packs I normally checked out both poitive and negative threads, but quickly found that the first 25 pages (especially of the negative thread) was rather worthless to base my purchase on, as so much was critizised on expectations rather than facts. So maybe what I am looking for is good/bad threads that would help a customer of that pack a bit more.
Guess a new neg thread started on releease date will never happen, though LOL :)
I would suspect, though, that even knowing the expectations of players is important to a dev team. What people expect in a pack and what a pack actually contains can (and has) frequently differ, and we've often seen a lot of disappointment because of it. The negative thread expresses these expectations, which gives devs a heads up on where they've hit those expectations and where they've fallen short. I think it gives some insight on where the community looks first and what their gameplay priorities are.
And for the players, well, there's always going to be someone disappointed in each release. With so many play styles and preferences, there's no such thing as pleasing everyone all of the time, so the negative thread is a sort of nice, safe, tucked away little tavern for those people to vent and express their disappointment freely without yucking everyone's yum. ☺️
