To the senior developer who was crying...

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neo1987 wrote:

I wrote the OP to the developers and, after reading the responses here and on Reddit, I'd like to send a message to the community as well:

Yes, the meme was making fun of Redditors complaining. So what? Your lack of empathy is causing you to bring logic & technicality into an emotionally charged situation; you're missing the forest by fixating on a single tree. The dev wasn't crying about THAT meme in particular, but ALL the memes and negativity they've seen. It adds up. Chris did the right thing in speaking up about it and the proper response from any human community, even on the internet, is to feel shame about it. We're all stressed from this awful virus disrupting our lives, so "be nicer" is the presiding message here and it’s a healthy message to send.

Also, the game factually isn’t in decline. It’s doing just fine, as evidenced by Tencent’s investment (whether you agree with that decision or not). GGG now has more resources and staff than ever before. You’re confusing your subjective ideals of how the game should be in your opinion with your perception of it’s broader perceived quality. That’s not how the world works. The devs and their decision making are what made this game popular, not you. They are better at this than you. You will continue to feel frustrated until you realize this - that you are being overconfident in the value of your own opinions.

I think all this toxicity is coming from two things primarily: Emotional incompetence and cognitive dissonance.

Internet culture values intelligence over emotional intelligence, so naturally people get logically smarter but emotionally stagnate or even become fully sociopathic (emotional retardation/deficit). Part of maturity is realizing that emotional intelligence is the far more important skill in any community of humans. Simply, you will get more done and make more friends.

Another thing is players seem to have an ideal in their minds of how things SHOULD be, but forget that their “should” might destroy what made the game successful in the first place - something the developers know all too well and have a healthy fear of every time they make a change. Sometimes they’ll get it right and sometimes they’ll get it wrong - that’s the risk they face in every content release. They know this already and don’t need you to remind them every two seconds.

This is a problem of humility in the community here. For example, younger people have idealistic expectations and become frustrated when the world doesn’t bend to those expectations - that’s a cognitive dissonance. The solution to cognitive dissonance (that sense of frustration) is practicing humility - the realization that one is frail, fallible, and needs the help of the community. Humility generally makes you happier because you lower your “bar” back down to reality and other humans become more comfortable talking to you. I recommend it.

It’s true that some of the feedback and ideas you’ve all posted are really quite good, but if you don’t practice emotional intelligence and humility in your delivery, then your ideas will never be received and ultimately acted upon. All you’ll do is ruin a dev’s day, who is a human person with feelings just like you, and nothing will be achieved.

Learn humility, learn emotional intelligence. You will be happier, so will the devs, and more will get done.

I hope this helps. :)

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Ydoum wrote:

Reddit is mostly a toxic place, and poe's subreddit is no different. The fact that the official forums are no longer the main communication device between GGG and players is just plain wrong. The fact that devs are using poe's subreddit to browse through all the crap that's posted there is even worse - it should be ignored all together. I do, however, feel sorry for the lad, and hope the little, obnoxious reddit keyboard warrior gets what he deserves.

I miss the old days where Chris would just hop onto the official forums, write some replies to threads, explain some of the mechanics, etc.

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SeCKSEgai wrote:

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Ydoum wrote:

Reddit is mostly a toxic place, and poe's subreddit is no different. The fact that the official forums are no longer the main communication device between GGG and players is just plain wrong. The fact that devs are using poe's subreddit to browse through all the crap that's posted there is even worse - it should be ignored all together. I do, however, feel sorry for the lad, and hope the little, obnoxious reddit keyboard warrior gets what he deserves.

I miss the old days where Chris would just hop onto the official forums, write some replies to threads, explain some of the mechanics, etc.

I'm actually surprised they focus on reddit over the forums - reddit is fueled by rage more than anything over even the mundane topics.

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Marinxar wrote:

However, I can't even imagine how far this guy on Reddit had to go to break someone down so far... I don't think that should be acceptable behavior at all.

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