Quote Originally Posted by Kalise View Post

Ehh... That's a poor analogy.

I mean, you don't need to be a world reknowned proffessional italian chef who's lived their entire life in Italy and worked in a bunch of Michelin Star restaurants to be able to say something like, putting Strawberry Jam on a Pepperoni Pizza would not be a good combination.

Heck, in the service industry it's often a customer focused line of work. Maybe it's just me, but I recently watched like a ton of Gordon Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares and a lot of it was him telling head chefs that what they're making isn't what the customers want (While the head chefs were all like "My food is the bestest! I've worked alongside the best chefs in the world and won awards for my cooking so I know how to make food!")

Same is true for video games. While yes, most people won't know the intricacies of game design such as being able to code the damn thing, or compose the music in accordance to what is happening in the game, just like your average pizza eater won't really know how to spin a good pizza dough.

It's still quite possible for a layperson to judge the result of a game or pizza. If a game lacks something, or has issues with the flow or enjoyability those can be pointed out by a player then the devs can listen to that feedback and use their knowledge to implement it into their game.

Just like you can complain about a pizza being too doughy, having a weak sauce or toppings that are not complementary to each other (I.e. Pineapple on a Tomato Sauce Pepperoni Pizza would be not so great... However, Pineapple on a BBQ Sauce pizza with Ham and Bacon? That's pretty good) and it'd be up to the chef to use their knowledge to think about how they'd make the dough and what toppings they'd put together.
In some way, Melichoir is right. Still poor analogy but, right. However the main problem is the community itself. The community wants this and that. Half the community says yes, other half says no. And it keeps branching from there on what the community wants and what they agree on and disagree. SE has to take all this in and make decisions on what the community has said. And even though they try to do stuff, there will always be that part of the community who vehemently doesn't like it and will constantly whine while you have a other part of the community who says it's decent or not bad at all. All in all, you can't appease everybody, no mater what SE does.