Quote Originally Posted by CazzT View Post
This is so beyond wrong. When people start to approach the "burn out" point, small issues, and issues you would normally not voice concerns about, start taking on a much larger presence in your view of the game. This goes for any hobby, actually. Telling someone it's OK to take a break is not telling them to "F off". It's polite advice. Sometimes people need to take a break from one hobby so they can take a step back and see the issues they have aren't as big as they appear.

Also, this mentality that the community abhors criticism (worse, labeling it as "negative side of the game"), really isn't as pervasive as you're making it out to be. Of the minority that hold this mentality, they're a fraction of the vocal minority. They hardly exist.
It's actually INCREDIBLY pervasive. I'm pretty much always passively in the Novice Network watching people chat, and virtually anytime a sprout criticizes something about the game they're literally told to unsub from the game, ESPECIALLY when it comes to the MSQ.

The moderators of the subreddit for this game are also notorious for intentionally suppressing critical discussion of the game.