Disagree with this 100%. A writer should write what they want to and not give a fuck about anyone else.
Dual Family was actually good. People are not mad because of his writing, people are mad because the game has been in limbo for almost 2 years now.
Obviously, a writer wants people to enjoy his work. But the readers must fall in with what the writer wrote. No successful Novelist asks his fans what he must write.
Lol. No one is mad because the writing in Dual Family sucks, of course not. If the writing is bad, you just don't play the game any more.
And no, it's not "actually good" it's a contrived, pretentious, emo-shitshow. It's fake-deep, pretend-soulsearching, it's an attempt to write"Sturm und Drang," while not having the literary skills. It's Twilight if Twilight was a story about incest and not about emasculated sparkly vampires and male stripper looking like werewolves. That's how bad it is.
Also, this is a nice "artistic" view that a writer should write what they want, but it's bullshit.
What good would writing things be for any writer, if no one enjoyed it? Outside from maybe some therapeutic experiences?
I'm writing myself, what good would my writing be if no one ever saw it?
Of course I write MY stories, but I WANT people to enjoy them, not read them and be pissed or think they are bad or stupid.
The problem with your view is that it is too extreme, just like the other option that writers should follow every whim of their readership.
In reality it is a balance. You tell your stories, BUT you write them not only for yourself, but also for your readers, players, viewers or whatever.
Do you think any published writer, just writes what he or she wants? Writers don't always think of the best ways to tell a story, or to reach many people, that's what editors are there for. That's why you have people read your stuff before it's published, to tell you what works and what doesn't, because frankly, many writers have their heads up their own arses and don't realize when they steer wrong.
My point wasn't that writers shouldn't tell their own story, it was that they should DEFINITELY NOT just listen to themselves while doing so. And again, even if you think they SHOULD only write for themselves, they just fucking DON'T, BECAUSE THEY WANT others to enjoy it, to read it, watch it, play it, to experience the child of their creativity
Because of that, the idea that they write only for themselves, isn't thinking the development of a story through to the end.
Without feedback, you simply don't know if your work is any good.
Writers aren't gods or infallible, they are human like we all are, they need advice too, they fuck up, they go on weird, irrelevant trips instead of focusing their narrative. THEY NEED FEEDBACK AND THEY WANT PEOPLE TO ENJOY THEIR WORK.
That means no man is an island.
