Garrett Blacknova
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Posted - 2012.07.19 01:57:00 -
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Umallon Macross wrote:"Disclaimer: Made this in my Dust withdrawal induced anger while reading nonsense whining on the forums..."
Your establishing sentence indicated that you were talking about THESE FORUMS. You said NOTHING to imply you were talking about anything else.
You've heard of "talking about other parts of the internet on a forum" right?
You know it's not a myth, right?
You know there have been quite a lot of "someone breaking NDA on YouTube/wherever" threads IN THESE FORUMS, right?
People are talking ABOUT the NDA breaches on here. So yes, reading these forums DOES give you reason to be angry at people talking outside of them.
Just saying. |
Garrett Blacknova
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Posted - 2012.07.19 08:50:00 -
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Umallon Macross wrote:No, I don't agree. Coming from a retail background, I know that ALL criticism is valuable whether its 'constructive' or not. I've had enough "we only accept 'constructive' criticism" from Bioware and EA. Negative feedback can be more valuable then happy friendly 'you know, you're so special, but maybe you would please consider BLAH BLAH BLAH'.
Constructive criticism doesn't have to be polite.
"Your game is crap. Stop trying" is negative criticism. It's also not helpful at all.
"Your game sucks because you did X wrong and should do Y to fix it because you're idiots and don't know what you're doing" is constructive criticism.
You don't even technically need to suggest way to FIX the problems if you want your criticism to be constructive. You CERTAINLY don't need to act like the devs are beautiful marvelous people who are merely a half-step short of perfect. I sometimes wonder if EA and Bioware know that, though. And I DEFINITELY have issues figuring out how Ubisoft judge valid criticism. It's recently been seeming more and more like they accurately analyse the best and worst ideas, then act on the most horrifically terrible suggestions and throw out the good ones.
EDIT: As for the definition of a beta, the features need to be COMPLETE, they don't need to be IMPLEMENTED in EVERY build of the beta. Beta testing CAN be done on only a partial build with limited features without invalidating its status as a beta. |