lol everytime succudev responds in this thread, i like them more. i much prefer people who make the game they want and make it with the intention of how they want it to be played. usually ends up with a better product
Since there is another person who missed the point I was making (forgot the password to the earlier account) I will be very blunt in what I was talking about.
SuccuDev is very hostile in how he talks to people who provide him with feedback he doesn't like. Strong vision and belief in your direction is great, but in his case this often is more abusive than it is called for.
Issue with that is that creating hostile envirnoment will drive out people who just... don't want to bother with this. You have positive feedback loop here since the only people who will still provide feedback are the ones that either agree with his vision 100% or don't mind the "bluntness". Being in echo chamber is not the end of the world, but it has its problems. With good work ethic you can mitigate it (which I think SuccuDev has) but it still a risk.
As mentioned before this doesn't mean that he can't be annoyed by some repeated feedback or he can't decide to simply not do any action based on specific feedback from specific source. If I make a product for Fortnite kids, then feedback of 80 year old grandma will not really impact my decision making much. You can just move on from it though, you don't need to attack.
Succudev said that he wants to describe his thought process which is awesome thing and between his emotional reaction to situation he did provide interesting information.. Why emotions though? You can disagree with someone and explain your stance without reducing it to being mean. If you want to provide interesting information for everyone... then talk to everyone, don't singleout someone, don't attack them, approach it as a teacher who got silly question from student. Usually that question is great way to inform everyone in class about something.
Succudev himself said that he goes out of his way to scare people away. In general he is mean when he responds.He would say right now that I am princess and softskinned by pointing it out... but I am old 4channer I don't mind being mean depending on the context. For me it just hints as who SuccuDev is as person, but you know... He is not my friend and I don't know him enough to really judge, so I don't care. I will provide feedback though (because of what I said earlier about echo chambers) and feedback is not expectation of change. Feedback is information, resource that receiver takes and uses it in the process of decision making.
I honestly believe that if he took a step back from his emotions while still being as active in community as he is. Provide same information as he does just in a more polite way. I think he would with time get better and better feedback which might in time create a better product which would be benefit for me. I like good products, but this all it is. Just my belief and I am not decision maker here.
