Quote Originally Posted by Renalt View Post
*insert quote from earlier here*
Want me to praise your work? Excel. Go above and beyond. EARN my praise. I will not praise you or the SE devs for 'good enough' or 'what you're supposed to do'. Doing the bare minimum is your job. You get paid to do that. If you want praise, you need to earn it. However, if you give me a subpar product, I will be complaining.

Quote Originally Posted by Midareyukki View Post
Exactly.

Things I praise the devs for:
- 1.0 -> ARR
- Listening to fans and adding content in
- Making the game's experience not be any more of a hassle than it has to be (at least in comparison to when I started, thank god sprouts don't have to go through half of what I did)
- Understand their game is old and has outdated designs and try to improve on them
- Being somewhat creative on their job designs
- Crafting and Gathering not making me want to quit the game
- Honestly entertaining story with fun Final Fantasy-style ham and cringe that contrasts the awkwardness old MMOs have
- Hrothgars!
- Being able to play with PS4 people (I wouldn't have met my friends otherwise, and I love them to bits)
- All of Shadowbringers
- Soken
- Housing and other similarly chill content
and others!

Things I do not praise the devs for:
- Being complacent
- Ignoring fan feedback
- Making stupid decisions that benefit absolutely no one! (also: not thinking twice before going through with their designs)
- Quality Assurance going down the drain
- Their treatment of Hrothgars after release
- Job design being utter chaos
- Stupid answers (ok assuming I can forgive them saying Hrothgar ears were hard, the hell kind of answer is 'go play ultimate'????)
- Cringe in the MSQ. But like, the BAD cringe. Loporrits.
- Lack of transparency
and others around the same vein.
See this guy right here? Be this guy. Have standards. Give praise where its due and scorn when its due.