You know, I certainly understand the premise of your request, Olham - I do. And, on the surface, I'd agree.
However, you can't pick and choose. No one here seems to mind the titles that read how wonderful OFF is (and do a count sometime, there are far more good than bad). But, let one person come here who doesn't agree? Must be something wrong with his rig, or with the person's expectations, or..or...he's just an ass.
Whatever.
I honestly gave up. It's just far (far) too biased in here to get objectivity - and that's my opinion, like it or lump it. No, I never started a thread with words like "bugged" (in fact, I don't recall ever starting one, period). But you can't tell other people how to think.
Things are what they are. You start charging the full price of a stand-alone game, and further still actually *hope* to sell in any volume...you have to drink the water with the wine. There will be those who aren't thrilled, and they also have every right to speak their minds. Does anyone honestly believe this same thing doesn't happen on every website supporting every game that's got a forum? Of course it does. Guess what? That's business - deal with it.
Besides, anyone who reads a forum (hell, anyone who reads anything) should be able to form their own opinion; hopefully being objective enough to sort the good and the bad. Being brutally honest isn't welcomed by many people, I've found, because it spoils their need to see things the way they want to see them.
If you want my honest opinion, I think that the 'good' comments are far more overdone around here than the bad ones are critical. Most of the bad ones I've seen have specifics; particular observations that actually explain *why* the bad comment. By comparison, I've seen some remarkably flowery writing - some of it was actually called a "review", God forbid...while what was written simply waxed poetic, on and on, about how beautiful it looks, etc. It *does* look great...but there's way more to a flight sim than that.
It literally got to the point that people were commenting on the wonderful writing ability of the reviewer (which wasn't all that great)...and we call this "objective"? I mean, honestly, people are just falling all over themselves in here. And if you don't go along...well, you're scum. You're not doing it right. Your machine sucks...always something.
Let people speak their minds. If they're right, then the reader deserves to know *both* the good and bad. Maybe the right people will take note and respond to the negative reviews (and rightfully so). If they're wrong, then a. it'll come out eventually, and b. the wise support team would use the initial negatives as an opportunity to showcase a positive (their commitment to supporting their product, even in the face of criticism).
I agree. And I've been banned from more sites than I can remember. Not for slagging a game usually but for defending myself too well against the usual barrage of crap from the mob-mentality fan-bois.
I certainly never "try to like" a game. I tell it like it is, and hang the consequences.
I've liked very few games since RB2-3D. And "like" is the operative word, because even those I've liked have fallen well short of lovability. There's always
something that gets far enough up my nose to make the place on the dusty shelf an inevitability. My reputation is cast in solid stone, my expectations are way beyond the point of reasonableness.
So for me to be sucked back into playing this, day after day after day..."god, I'm tired of it, I have combat fatigue...ah go on then, just one more mission..."
I'm highly objective, by my own lights, and I'll curry no favour. I even fell out with Oleg Maddox, having initially been one of his greatest supporters and online friends, when he talked crap about stuff on the subject of which he was eventually proved wrong. Got my name in the credits of two IL2-series manuals. But when the cards have to fall let them fall where they may.
Which brings me to OFF. It's unique since RB2-3D, at least for me, because there's nothing in it that gets up my nose. Minor flaws and tiny irritations (the claims-page for example), but it's all minor stuff that detracts in no appreciable way from the strengths, and I know it'll be put right. The game has solid and timely support, already proven.
So Olham's request/suggestion is reasonable to me, not to throw molotovs out the door. There's nothing about this game that's worthy of losing it sales.
On the other hand, if somebody wants to put "BUGGED" in a title, if they've paid their money, and the post isn't a blatant troll, that's their moral right. Something that's of a minor irritation to me might be something that's right up their nose. I, and nobody else, has any right to judge that person's call about something that's important to
him.
The game is what it is, let it stand or fall on it's own strengths or wealnesses. The cards will find their own path, as they do with all games, regardless of what people say about them, good or bad.
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