I would suggest never acting in a hostile manner, no matter how angry you think you have the right to be. It doesn't do anybody any good. If you feel like someone broke the rules, report it, otherwise just try to understand the issue and fix it or refuse and ignore it. Yes, I did read your comments on the page you linked, it seems to me you've straight up lost it, much like many other commenters there.
Well, let me see... so people can be hostile with me, and I can't voice MY opinion on that? Right, okay... I've been doing this for 5 years now and have been dragged through the mud, was told in DMs to give up (and quite a few other awful things I will not get into here). I make a VN, it's ultimately FREE. No, I have not "lost it". To me, there is a fine line between common decency when voicing your opinion and writing a review of something. I have absolutely no issue with negative reviews. I have even made small changes BECAUSE of negative reviews in an effort to make improvements I hope most people will like. I know I can't please everyone. But if I see a way to please another person that I can do without messing up what I have done already, then I'll do that.
In fact, I'll go so far as to say a negative review is almost more helpful than a positive one. I do like positive reviews because they tell me what I am doing right (based on that person's own opinion and preferences anyway). But when I read a negative one that is just being sarcastic and attempting to humiliate me - my first thought is "what is this person hoping to accomplish with this?"
There are plenty of good, well written negative reviews that present the person's issues with my game without stooping to such a level. Honestly,
fgalrodREBORN's comments weren't necessarily as bad, but they are an example of what I'm talking about. His review was perfectly fine up until that last paragraph. I see it in other game reviews. And usually, I don't comment on the reviews. But it would seem to me that if you've played (we'll say my game), you found things you didn't like about it. You go to the trouble of coming back here to write a review - what is it that you hope to gain when you write a review? For me, if I am writing a review, I hope to pass on things to the dev that I felt would make the game better. The last thing I'd want to do is try to humiliate them or be ugly about it. That is all I am saying.
So, no. I haven't "straight up lost it". If that was the case, then so have you, and fgalrodREBORN, and every single other person who has voiced an opinion on such things. You say he said what he felt. Well, I'm saying what I felt. And no, I am definitely NOT notorious for fighting reviewers. I only brought this up in the first place when replying to a post. I think this was the first time I've actually brought up a review in here... might check the rest of the thread to be sure, but I'm pretty sure I didn't deserve the comparison to the other dev you mentioned. Actually, if you read through this entire thread (especially for Serenity), you'll probably see how far I've gone to try to please everyone even when I know I can't.
Anyway, best to drop this subject. And maybe I shouldn't have kept it going or even brought it up myself. I apologize to everyone for my part in it.
Peace...
