Quote Originally Posted by Kiote View Post
For me, that is unacceptable. I can see no rational reason for this. It is yet another in a long list of bad design decisions without any explanation.
You do realize that even if you do not see a reason for it, there might very well be, (and most likely there actually is) a solid motivation for his decision, at the very least from his perspective? You're behaving like those children that just will not bother to try to fathom their parents decisions without first yelling back at them, daring to think they instantly know better and see all the angles.

In their case, which is not yours, we call it immaturity. But it has another name in the realm of adults.

There are some people that will never understand that because they own a body, it doesn't obligatorily follow that they know how it works; or that doing well at fantasy football really doesn't warrant them a career as football coaches. Playing MMOs, even tons of them, doesn't automatically make you a game developer.

Perhaps we should constantly remind ourselves of all this, and at every post, try to speak from a player's perspective. Let's try to yield only our experience and opinions which are those of gamers, not designers, or logistics coordinators, or producers, or directors. However, I think there will always be those that will hector the developers about how stupid their every decision is, without noticing for a second that the real stupidity lies elsewhere.

R