Psieye wrote:bjourne wrote:I think everyone is allowed to express their opinion in this forum part, no? And I'm also part of the community even if I don't write a lot on this forum or contribute code.
Yes, you're allowed to express your opinion. You are free to continue expressing it, but I got the impression you weren't here just to express opinion - i.e. you wanted something done. If all you wanted to do was rant but are satisfied with nothing changing, then my post does not apply.
Well, in all fairness "ranting while not getting anything done" is 99.9% of all forum posts.
I think one possible motivation to expressing a contradictory opinion is to discuss it, maybe get some enlightenment, maybe give some.
For what it is worth, all of the reasons listed for a longer game being bad are totally subjective (dull, not fun, tedious) even "exercising the skill of patience" not being fun is an opinion, it's even a relatively recent invention that it's bad, people used to call fun patience "relaxation" i am not specifically saying i argee, but i certainly think the discussion itself has merit.
For example, if the percption that the game had too much XP two equally valid responses might be to cut 20% of the content, or to reduce the XP per monster by 20% picking one over the other depends on your perception of whether the game is too long, whether the existing content is interesting and valuable as is.
There is no "settled" to be had there, no consensus, because every change alters the balance and eaxh persons tipping point is subtly different.
Contending that the forum's "consensus" on anything is one way or the other (on nearly any subject) isn't likely to produce any useful discussions.