Quote Originally Posted by Fukuro View Post
I just don‘t understand what this has to do with the complaints recently? They have been pretty civil so far. It is clear people are fed up with some of the decisions SE has made, and as long as these complaints are constructive there is no problem. However, there seems to be a hive mentality within people within this community that equals constructive criticism with wishing death upon the devs. It seems like they want to nip every complaint in the bud. It kind of reminds me of „There is no war in Ba sing se“.
Stuff doesn't have to be literal death threats to be kinda over the top. I haven't seen many death threats, and thankfully none on these forums -- though the number I have seen is still non-zero, which is depressing even if also unsurprising -- but I've seen a weirdly high number of posts (on Twitter and various other places, and a few even here on these forums) saying the lottery was rigged and a scam, and that the individual programmers responsible should be taken to court and sued for real-money compensation that should be split among people who failed to get a house, or even that the individual developers should be jailed for fraud. While those aren't threats of violence, they still seem a demand for action against the devs that's a bit out-of-proportion to the actual issue at hand.

(Though I suspect it's because it feels like a financial hit, given how expensive housing can be in-game. So maybe it hits the same part of the brain where you get denied something you were saving real money for? I dunno.)

Anger's okay, and understandable. Demanding answers is okay... and probably not a bad idea, both for the sake of transparency and because the simple act of distilling a "what went wrong" report can probably help SQEX improve process to ensure stuff like this is less likely in the future. And that seems to be where most players are.

But there's a non-zero amount of players -- sometimes very loud players -- who are still leveling demands that don't really seem... reasonable. Or rational. And if I were to take any one thing of value away from this roller-coaster of a thread that's part rational discourse and part "the OP seems to have dressed in a clown suit, started screaming like a metal band's lead singer, then self-immolated", it's probably that the folks who are being reasonable (but still angry) might want to go "whoa there, calm down" when they encounter the folks who aren't being reasonable. Because if you have a small-but-loud lunatic fringe, they can sometimes start to drown out the more rational responses -- or just be loud-and-present enough that the rational responses sort of become just more noise -- and that is not a great thing if you want developers to actually pay attention to what the playerbase is saying.