Before I see any more "nitpicking ARR" threads.

[Griss]

Pick the nityest of nits. How ever if the nit you plan on picking is overpicked, Perhaps your picking prowes is not as unique as you think. in such cases support the pickers of the overpicked nits. And move on to find a fresh patch of underpicked nits to pick.

[Warlock]

Pick the nityest of nits. How ever if the nit you plan on picking is overpicked, Perhaps your picking prowes is not as unique as you think. in such cases support the pickers of the overpicked nits. And move on to find a fresh patch of underpicked nits to pick.

What kind of riddle is this..

[Ricky]

Nitpicking is ok unless the person is being insulting about it
Criticism can be a good thing

[Preypacer]

Backseat moderator gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

He has no chance against the armchair game developers around here. They left him in the dust a long time ago, with their stubbornly selective hearing/vision/memories.

[Preypacer]

People should wait until they are INSIDE the alpha before they start bitching, seriously. They are basing their opinion on what, a few videos with someone running around?

Worse, they're basing it on extremely selective scrutiny of what's going on in those videos. They see one or two things that seem off to them, and they go full-on hysteria mode about how the whole game will be flawed, unless they say something!!!! Because the idea is, apparently, that something they see with their very limited exposure will somehow be overlooked by Yoshi-P and an entire staff of people who spend all day, every day, looking at, testing and working on it; a pretty amazing conceit, if you ask me.

In another recent thread, someone completely ignored Almost 1.5 hours of perfectly smooth gameplay, with heavy character loads on an early Alpha build in the last live letter. Instead, they focused entirely on a brief moment of lag/rubberbanding that happened near the very end of it and posted a thread, making it out to sound like a harbinger of doom.

Like I said before... selective vision/hearing/memory. A lot of people around here seem to suffer from it.

I also get the sense that some people here are carrying on that way for rather self-important reasons. Either they want to credit themselves with "being the reason something was changed", or they want to be able to say "see! I told you so!" if what they're predicting comes to pass. I've seen people single-handedly credit themselves with something being added or changed in a MMO before - so huge are some people's egos, apparently - so I wouldn't put it past others to do the same.

[Jynx]

Worse, they're basing it on extremely selective scrutiny of what's going on in those videos. They see one or two things that seem off to them, and they go full-on hysteria mode about how the whole game will be flawed, unless they say something!!!!

Man that's some epic Hyperbole you got going on there. I don't see many people saying that the game is going to explode without our input.

I do see a few people noting that "For good reason" last time they asked for our input and utterly set it aside for a multitude of reasons some awe inspiring fopahs transpired. The good thing is the developers are being far more transparant than they were with 1.0 but there utter silence on some subjects speaks volumes as to how undecided they are on some things or unwilling to budge on the issue.

Wether or not people are posting because they think they will be E-famous as the guy who made the devs to ____ is up for debate and just a very flimsy reason to attack people who are very critical about the game. One could accuse you of the exact same selective thought processes as well being able to ignore and overlook blatant issues. The developers should be able to filter our criticism without the assistance of people telling people to not give their opinions.

[Hanemakikaze]

I notice a lot of nitpicking threads. Usually about the animation, lag (duh. they're doing STRESS tests) grass, etc. Before any more of these threads start, I'm just going to post this right here for those of you who haven't seen it. This will probably mark the last time I go anywhere near nitpicking threads. I understand feedback is important, but please, leave it to the alpha testers right now. And when you're accepted into alpha / beta, share your criticism then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUoHr0d0t9w

[Siegtaru]

This sort of thing is just what happens when things went as they did at launch. I was an alpha/beta tester and I wish I had said alot more than I did (not that it would have done very much good back then, they had their vision set at the time) so of course people are going to be extra-crtitical this second time around. It's as if you were on the Titanic, lived to tell about it, then went on an exact replica, let's call it "Titanic 2" and -weren't- worried as hell about getting on. Bad example is bad.

[Thunderz]

and every single dev would say the same about the game they are working on

We have the right to be pessimistic about this game

/pointless thread is pointless

edit: in Alpha/Beta for 1.0 I am relatively sure the Devs didn't care for NA feedback so whatever we could have said was basically ignored anyways

I just want result

[Warlock]

and every single dev would say the same about the game they are working on

We have the right to be pessimistic about this game

/pointless thread is pointless

edit: in Alpha/Beta for 1.0 I am relatively sure the Devs didn't care for NA feedback so whatever we could have said was basically ignored anyways

I just want result

Get alpha 1.0 out of your damn head already!!!!