The issue with Dawntrail and importance of 8.0

[Exmo]

As I said previously - its okay if you liked Dawntrail. More power to you. But liking something does not mean you cannot allow criticism of said thing.

The same is true to those who like criticisms of DT, who narrativize a population decline into a disastrous population collapse, who consider the rise in negative steam reviews to not be fueled by the well known portion of bigots in the community. It would be a mistake to take the latter at face value. Much of the criticisms of DT on this forum (not all, much) is not genuine. Much of it is people being weird and unreasonable, people making stuff up, people being incapable of interacting with the text, people being unable to escape their expectations. It should be perfectly acceptable for others to criticize these opinions and see them as invalid, even if you don't agree with those criticisms. And yet, we've seen here people responding weirdly to those who contravene the echo in this chamber - either by incoherently frothing at the mouth like someone else in this thread, or like you have done by monologuing about how thou doth shield thine eyes from the truth. If like you said people here were engaging in open discourse in good faith, they would not respond with such hostility to opinions counter to their own, they would be able to respond without getting hostile or mocking those they disagree with. The fact that the latter behavior is rare here is indicative of a bad atmosphere.