Quote Originally Posted by Gun_Anam View Post
I hate the idea of any individual influencing my gameplay. I'm sure many others feel the same way.
I completely understand where you are coming from. Unfortunately, the reality is that there are individuals that influence your game play, whether you like it or not. For one, Yoshi-P (the man!) is an individual that certainly has a big influence on our gameplay. Matsui is another. Perhaps that's not what you meant, however.

For my part, I'm more comfortable with designers having a bigger influence, because the designers goal is to create a game that makes money -- ideally this comes about by making the game fun for the players, so their motivations line up nicely with mine. The issue I generally have with player control is that another player generally does NOT have the goal of making others' play experience better, but to have fun in their own right. And when their idea of fun is "mess with" other players ... well, that's when things tend to get ugly.