[ SECRET POST #7039 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #7039 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly, I'm tired of people acting like criticism is some sort of horrible, awful thing. I love my favorite video game, but you'd better believe there are things about it that I will criticize because it's not perfect and as much as I love it, there are things I think it could have done better.

Nothing is flawless. Everything has things that could be improved, and there's nothing bad or wrong about pointing those things out and having a discussion about them. Heck, I've played a lot of live service games where the developers/creators listened to criticism and took it to heart and used it to improve things about the game.

I think I see the issue more clearly now

[pengilly]

I think I'm seeing where OP is be coming from now. I guess their vent is less about being personally insulted that people in cozy gaming communities aren't playing challenging action games, but how the general trait of not wanting to be challenged (not in itself a bad thing) can lead to some players reacting poorly when they are challenged in the form of encountering critique. (And yes, there's difference between simply defending one's tastes, and strawmanning/shaming fair critique.)

Toxic positivity, as other commentors here have said. Though this attitude can be prevalent in fandoms with more action-based gameplay (ask any Sonic fan), I can see how cozy games may have it worse for the reason I mentioned prior.

Though I suspect the poor reaction is less about defending one's moral purity (except in the case of, say, the devs being bigoted in some form, and not wanting to be tied to that), but more of misinterpreting critique as 'I hate this feature/character, therefore I hate [YOU/the developer] personally for [liking it/implementing it].' (I used to struggle with this mindset as someone with unpopular fandom opinions, now I don't really care who loves and hates the things I do as long as they respect those who have the opposite stance.)

[(Anonymous)]

I could have written this comment. Even my absolute most favorite things aren't perfect. Nothing is perfect, there's almost always room for improvement. And just because I adore it, doesn't mean that other people have to love it too. There might be things that don't bother me, that other people see problems with. And I agree, providing feedback often will be listened to by the developers, and they will improve things.

Yes, there are people who seem to complain just for the sake of complaining, but not always. Sometimes people actually want to see stuff get better. Shouting down any criticism just reeks of toxic positivity.