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Posted - 2008.11.14 03:11:00 -
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 Originally by: Canis Trucido
when did it become not allowed, or frowned upon, to be discontent with changes in this game?
Is everyone so mindlessly devouted to the game they refuse to even awknowledge that their game might have become less fun or in some other way of lower quality? It is somehow beyond the realm of possiblity that the changes were in poor taste and not well thought out?
I don't get it. Last time I checked, complaints,cristicism, and just flat out whining was a very valid and very useful form of feedback.
If you feel your position is so weak(that the game is flawless/great/unchanged/changed for the better/etc.) that the only reply to someone attacking it is to taunt them or somehow make an attack on their charecter, doesn't that just show how valid the other persons point is?
I was just wondering.
The psychology behind this is in my opinion, quite transparent.
By stating that they are impervious to changes in the game mechanics, an individual feels elevated to a position of social superiority and when this is a communal activity, they feel validated by the community and therefore safe. I used to read a weight lifting forum which had a similar phenomenon, one person would say something ignorant, and it would be followed by endless droves of people falling over each other to talk about how they know better, and to mock them endlessly.
I am not implying that there are no cases where people respond to CCP's decisions irrationally (you don't have to look far), but it does seem like the reflexive accusations of 'whining' whenever someone makes any criticism, in many cases stifle rational debate. IÆve seen examples of people responding to a thread in such a way, without even reading the post, just the thread title, making their response a total non-sequitur.
It is quite sad when people are so desperate to gain the validation of people over the internet. Sometimes internet forums seem like a large scale version of Asch's conformity experiments.
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