I just ate, it was pretty delicious. Sausage in batter and chips with Irish Curry over the top. Irish Curry was really nice but really hot after awhile...anyway-
I wouldn't call it "okay,"
Then we are in agreement then that it's not on to go batshit insane over a game and expect to be taken seriously when people act like irrational children. I think "I don't like this idea, it's just another terrible guest character" sounds better and more reasonable than "I FUCKING HATE THIS, THIS PIECE OF SHIT, THIS GAME IS DEAD, FUCK YOU TECMO GO KILL YOURSELVES" I know which one i would take seriously.
but I also don't believe the solution is to merely move onto a different game as you suggested. The fact that said people are so unhappy is because they care so much about the game. Generally, people don't get exceptionally worked up over apathy. So, even after a slew of stupid decisions, there are parts of the game that they love and don't wish to surrender. So, if they're playing the game, but not liking certain elements of it, what do they do? Well, generally they complain, either as a form of catharsis or in an attempt to remedy the situation either retroactively or, more commonly, in an effort to preemptively ward off future decisions.
I did indeed suggest it might be a good idea but i didn't suggest it because they have problems with the game, some people here generally have given up on this franchise and have came to the thought that Tecmo no longer care about their voice and opinion. I could have lied and said you shouldn't give up because it will make a difference but i'm not working at Tecmo and by the way they have been acting lately it seems they don't care about our voices. i suggested it might be best to start looking for other franchises, i didn't say you should, there are problems i have but i love the game so it's outweighed by the bad. If that person generally felt he would rather play Tekken because he has a voice in the community, then Tekken might be the way to go, it wasn't in malice, that's why i said "Please don't take this the wrong way".
So for the latter, you are correct: the barking and "shouting" is not ideal. For the former, that's pretty much how it goes. You can chide people for acting rashly after being swept up by their emotional response, but to suggest that they consider moving onto a different game is not the proper remedy.
Glad we agree, being irrational and violent is not nice, there is a reason official forums from Capcom and Sega crack down on that behaviour, afterall. As for the moving on part...well i said what needed to be said in the quote above, it's not directed at people who had problems just people who would rather play other game because they feel they have a voice.
That exchange had nothing to do with DOA or people's opinions surrounding it. It was in response to the notion that one's opinion could (or "should") be "respected" even if not "cared about," which I find to be a paradox. If one respects something, their respect is a form of care and reverence. Certain opinions do not deserve care or reverence.
Most people these days and most of my friends are very politically minded, I don't care about their opinion even though they seem to rattle off every now and then to me but i respect their interest and how passionate they are from both sides. I don't have to care to understand a point and why people think that way, i show no such interest in all of that but i can understand and respect that other people do.
It's just respect and acceptance, other people do have opinions and you don't have to agree, care or think about those opinions to accept someone thinks differently.
Thus, I am opposed to the notion that I should respect an opinion based on the mere premise that it is an opinion and opinions are inherently worthy of respect. The various examples were provided only as shorthand to demonstrate how abstractly the premise that a poor opinion should be respected does not hold (in logic, a single counter-example alone invalidates a premise regardless how "extreme" it is, so rather than debate the particulars of a more nuanced case, I presented ones that were rather obvious and not prone to dispute).
You would have a point if this topic wasn't about "I like this" and "I don't like that". I said earlier to another member, neither side is "Right". There is no right and wrong here, it's what you like and dislike. The only thing that is wrong is telling people they can or can't like something, how that person behaves though is a different story. It' goes both ways, i don't agree with people attacking others simply because they set a different opinion on the table, "You should like this or shut up and go somewhere else" is just as bad, it's how one goes about it though.
