Quote Originally Posted by Voltyblast View Post
On paper yes, you can be critical without being rude. However ANY sort of negative criticism in this game is like a personal attack, therefore no matter how well articulated or how well developed your argument is, as long as your criticism is negative then it's a problem. This applies on every single game, not just here, as proven by my different opinions and criticism of other games which are beloved by many.
Far too many players dont even know everything well enough. They think they know how something works, but they only see a 1 sided thing.

For example with the healers: they see they need to do more damage, as their damage isnt competing, and healing often just isnt needed. the real issue being the engine not being able to apply a more sustained damage output and demanding more healing that way. Its very staggered bursts is a way they worked around it, and while it works for 90% of the players, it doesnt work for the 10%. But as long as the 90% is happy, that is a good sign.

They also think that someone who doesnt play a certain job/role/gamemode cannot tell anything about those jobs. Yet in plenty of cases you can because while you might not play a certain job in this game, you can in an other one, and have a reference point from that. These reference points can on that be a very good argument. Someone that never played healer can on that even say that the healer job has an issue when he noticed healing is rarely needed at all.

Devs only try to do 1 thing: try to keep the game fun and popular, and whatever they do, its all for that purpose. Whatever they do (or refuse to), it can be good, or it can be bad, but it is often impossible to tell the actual result of a certain change, while being very risky to change it.

Arguments often however become personal as its more about 'proving you are better' than actualy about balance. Most of the balance aspects dont care about the skill of a player, they care about a skillcurve. A realy bad player therefor can have equaly valid arguments towards a pro.