Let's see if we can explain the difference between having something negative to say about what you see and ... complaining, whining, hating and even expecting.
I am a Giants fan, Go G Men. They have sucked for years recently. Eli has no O line but he makes a lot of bad decisions. The defense sucks and never come through anymore. The front office has not made good decisions for years.
By making the above statements do you think that I now hate the Giants? Do I EXPECT anything because I think my team sucks for now? because they do. Eli won us 2 superbowls but I still think he is now hurting the team and should retire. I would hate to see him be a guy who did not know when to quit. Is that whining or just a stupid opinion based on his record?
It has been almost 9 months since the last game update. Very few people ask for help in this thread. Speculation is about all that is left to talk about here. Akin to offseason sports talk. You can't really talk about last seasons games over and over anymore until the new season happens.
You are going to have to get used to people with different views. Why anyone would want to discourage different opinions escapes me. That is so long as you do not call someone names of course.
There are a few outlets to follow this game. If you prefer a tightly controlled echo chamber I suggest the Discord channel. You will never see a negative post there.
If you want to support him you can join/follow on his P page. I doubt you will see many negative comments there either.
The thread Here on F95 is not a developer controlled social media channels like Discord or P. The comments here will have more variety compared to ones controlled by the developer. until new actual game content is released on 8/6 any traffic here is a bonus.
Lol. I can't speak for others, but I have zero problems with different opinions, I also have zero problems with negative comments about a game or dev if warranted, anyone who checks out some of my posts here knows that I do my fair share of them myself, but I do have a problem with people exxagerating time periods, ignoring public statements made by the dev about pausing the development and creating flat-out lies.
There's also a difference between criticizing someone or bluntly insulting the guy.
All of this happened here in this thread and this is something I will address if necessary.
It's sad, but there are several people who for reasons beyond my understanding try to use this thread to damage ICSTOR's credibility and insult him.
Maybe it's because I had a severe case of burnout once myself, that I perfectly understood his need for taking a longer break from development and therefore can't stand the disparaging comments.
After all, this game has a large following for a reason, it has killer renders and hot ladies in spades, is fun to play, without being annoying like other sandbox inspired games and I for one never have a problem with waiting for good content, if there's a reason.
Everything would be better than this project being abandoned and I've seen several games end, because the dev couldn't stand the barrage of trolls any more.
That might be something you should consider, while trying to just criticize and not be a troll.
