Why is "It's something to do" apparently a valid defense?

[Belhi]

People post here in the hopes that their complaints will be passed on to the devs so they can see an actual change, not to dissaude "white knights" from liking the game. The problem is, we're bringing up (in our eyes) valid issues / complaints, and people are just saying "no this game is perfect go play something else if you don't like it". While they may feel that way, aren't people who are dissatisfied also entitled to have their voices be heard, especially by the devs? They want to appeal to as many players as possible, and if something isn't resonating with the players, shouldn't we try to let them know?

Yes they are but at the same time, since the conversation has been created, its only fair that people with differing opinions put in their input too. SE has to balance to make a game all of us enjoy and usually with conflicting feedback. Its only fair that all parties have their say and frankly its just as much the people who are unhappy who are being dismissive of people who are putting in alternative feedback.

Perfect example is the fact that when I made my viewpoint earlier in this thread, the response was 'well you just haven't played for long'. Its true that I only started playing seriously in 2.4 but at the same time, being unable to work for most of the first half of the year, I have clocked up well over 2000 hours by this point. Ive played a lot. I have every class at 60, 3 desynthing skills at over 120, all the beast tribes maxed out and everything except the EX versions of the patch primals, the EX HW primals and the last 3 turns of coil done. Oh and 3 Zetas.

Lets also not pretend that people who try to start positive threads tend to have angry negative posters move in pretty quick, particularly at the moment.

ALL feedback is relevant. We should be respecting of that and while its fine to argue against anothers opinion logically, simply trying to dismiss their argument by calling them 'fanboys' or 'white knights' or alternatively using arguments to suggest their opinion is invalid is as bad as someone with complaints being dismissed.

So raise issues and make constructive feedback by all means. Just try and respect that others might not agree with you. Hell, the majority might not agree. I've found myself in that situation plenty of times in games before.