Quote Originally Posted by Morphiana View Post
Yoshi said they'd make mistakes and learn from them.

They said they'd try new things, make mistakes, and learn from the mistakes. They tried new things (going after a younger audience among other things), they made serious mistakes, now I'm going to watch and see if they uphold their promise of learning from those mistakes by utilizing player feedback.
Sorry to butcher your post but I want to respond to that.

I understand making mistakes, it is even important to make them.
But I think there are two major problems with those mistakes in DT and at least part of the reason for the anger.

Making such a huge gamble in the MSQ of all things without a real warning first (like „we will try a new approach on how to write a main character“) is just not good.
They didn‘t even give a warning of how much Wuk Lamat would be the MC, heck she wasn‘t even a topic until 6.55 and even after that nothing suggested this approach. Even the trailers and fanfests didn‘t imply as much.
They were far too mysterious about the female Hrothgar and kept Wuk Lamat far too long hidden.

The second is that it’s stupid to make succh an experiment of „look what sticks“ without a backup plan.
If they gonna experiment then the first two patches should be something entirely else instead of continuing that approach.
If the players would have been happy then they could have told them they will continue it, if not then they would have a plan B.
But waiting for 7.4 or at worst 8.0 before they change course… I don‘t know if that is healthy for the Dev-Player relationship.
Granted we don‘t know the patches yet but right now it seems they bet all their money on people loving the new approach and Wuk Lamat.

In my opinion it was a mistake to start such an experiment with the MSQ or at least without a proper warning.
This is a product people pay for and they expect a specific safety in what they can expect to get.

Their approach of „surprise the players at the last moment“ they usually do with the story backfired spectacularly this time because it wasn‘t the story itself they changed but the narrative.