Quote Originally Posted by Cercie View Post
You make a good point. If the ones complaining can't respect the devs, they can't expect to be treated like adults either. The devs are people too and it's unlikely that they're going to sort through pages and pages of venom for helpful feedback.
That's what I used to think too...

Until I worked with a JP dev in a doujin circle...

Me:"Hey, we been releasing the same kind of game under different paint of coating and name for like 3 years, are you sure we shouldn't release something different?"

The JP dev:"We sold a lot of game with this kind of content, and our player liked our game for that, I don't know if we try something different will upset our current playerbase, so let's just do that only after our sales went bad."

Me:"What's the center theme/sales point of our game?"

The JP dev:"Urm... we just simply add what many other player mostly like, I mean, the other circle released a game like this and sold like 10k copy for the first week, I think we should be fine."

Me:"Do you think I should use a more different art style to make our game stand out more?"

The JP dev:"I didn't see other circle use an artstyle that is similiar to yours, I don't know if players will like this artstyle, so let's just draw as usual, I think."

Me:"Why don't we do thing this way, it's way faster and more efficient too!"

The JP dev:"While it is slow, but it's also the safest way to do it, beside I never saw anyone who do things the way you did, we don't know if thing will be turn out completely okay. And add to that, we been doing thing this way for like 5 years, if we change thing up, it will take other dev sometime to get used ot it and which may cause them not being comfortable with their task."

The JP dev:"X-san, I understand your are enthusiastic about our game, but should the game don't sell well, are you willing to take responsible for it?"

Me:"......"

In case anyone curious, that circle is still going strong by keep releasing same kind of game with different coat of paint each one and half years, and no, I am not talking about FFXIV here.