Quote Originally Posted by Lingarn View Post
Fallacy: False Dichotomy. Either we have to be MMO designers, or can't complain. Reality: I don't need to be a bus driver to know that driving a bus in the lane with oncoming traffic is bad, and similarly, I don't need to be an MMO designer to know that pricing content beyond the reach of players to hide the fact that your servers can't keep up is also bad.

Asking people to make constructive suggestions, to keep criticism focused on the work and not the person, and so on is one thing. Telling people that they don't have a right to complain on the official forum of a product, the main avenue for communication between developers and the customers, is another. You won't stop people doing it, because this is exactly where they should be complaining. Using a common fallacy to try and shame people into stopping is just bad form.

Please try harder, and work toward constructive contributions to this community.
Their are many problems with this statement. First of all, bad and good are opinions and not fact. Period. So going back to your analogy: Your analogy does not compare like to like. You are absolutely right that you don't have to be a bus driver to know that a bus shouldn't be in the left hand lane, at least anywhere outside of a handful of countries. But that has nothing to do with bad or good, it has to do with right or wrong. One is against the law, the other is just your opinion. And while you don't have to be a bus driver to know a bus doesn't belong in the left hand lane, you DO have to get a specialized license to drive a commercial vehicle like a semi-truck in the United States and if you don't have that license their is a good chance that you don't know what the best practices are for driving a shipment from Texas to Illinois.

So your analogy is flawed. It is easy to see a car in the wrong lane and say, "Maybe that is not the best idea." But that is a long way off from making the assumption that "pricing content beyond the reach of players to hide the fact that your servers can't keep up is also bad." which is based on 0 facts (like which side of the road SHOULD be driven on) and is predominantly made up of your own opinion or the opinions of others you have read which makes good and bad subjective that is entirely different than your example.