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Originally Posted by Lurken
In closing, we are not toxic, imho. I'll give that we are very defensive of a property that we have been squating in while building and improving it. Now, that property was bought up and we were evicted from it. All we can do is to watch all our hard work being tossed out. Of course we are not enthused by this.
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I love T2k as much as the next superfan. I've tried to do a bit of building of my own (see my sig). So, to some degree, I can understand the passions that were aroused by the Alpha. That said, I don't get why some folks here seem to take FL's vision
personally. Like, none of us here own T2k. We didn't get evicted from anything, and our hard work hasn't been tossed out. It's still here, and people can still use it if they like it. IMHO, the belief that if a creator doesn't do sweeping fan-service to the Old Breed that they are somehow being mean or disrespectful or ungrateful or whatever is the very root of toxic fandom. Bitter is not a good look.
FL dev's don't have time to read and respond to every single upset fan's "suggestions". And I don't know about you, but if I was a dev, I wouldn't want to respond to frothing "fans" telling me that "X is ridiculous, Y is stupid, and Z is a joke", or essentially "start over". That was the gist of a lot of the "feedback" that ended up being ignored. I really don't wonder why.
A point I've tried to make again and again is that it's not so much what someone says that's important, but how they say it. No one likes to receive harsh criticism. It tends to make one defensive and less open to
constructive feedback.
And, frankly, the new generation of gamers probably doesn't really care what we old grognards think anyway-
especially when the nature of OG fans' opinions is, "the old stuff is awesome; new stuff sucks". I teach high school (juniors, 16-17ya) and I see generational shifts in taste every day. For example, I love the original Star Wars movies and loathe the prequels with every fiber of my being. My current crop of students love the prequels and don't think the original trilogy is all that great. There's no love like first love, I guess.