
Originally Posted by
Greywyr
This was my mistake. I apologize if you took offense, because indeed this was not towards you directly. We have discussed points before and there's nothing for me to point out from our interactions.
After the Q&A I checked the reactions and the loudest remain disappointing. Your personal appreciation - as in, the argument you expose - was not something strange to read after the backlash, I've seen answers alike, but in the juvenile mindset of "Ion, we did the homework for you, but we're not getting it because you didn't pay attention?! It's all there!". And it prompted my reply. Perhaps I should simply not have quoted you in this case. Even when I mentioned you, I was not speaking to you, but generally.
The point of the post remains. As I said before, there are many posters that contributed to the discussion on the either side that were civil and respectful, turned this discussion into something constructive (when sometimes it was hard to do so). Naturally, my previous - and more aggressive - post is not for those, if this wasn't clear before.
To you specifically:
I didn't take his answer as necessarily dismissive of all the work that has been done around this. In fact, I would consider dismissive if his response was more direct and something of along the lines of "Yes, I've seen your work, but that's not the point, because...". So I fundamentally disagree with you here. For me the fact that it was given a similar answer meant that despite being a controversial topic, they have a particular stance on it and they don't want to change it. You see similar interactions when say, someone approaches him about Titanforged: his response is short, using the same kind of arguments. "we know many are not fond of it, but we like it and it's to keep". If anything, this being straight forward.
But to say that is disheartening they don't care about feedback, that's a big leap you're doing. You had proof that these discussions were kept alive just for the purpose of listening to you and your ideas. And I had this discussion with you, I believe. In all this, their goal is to preserve the gameplay experience, and no matter the ideas or creativity that some of you had to try to make it somewhat possible - they still feel it conflicts with either the gameplay they wish to have or the compromise they tried to find to keep you content.