Seems to me more like you can't differentiate between totally harmless tongue-in-cheek remarks vs valid questions and instead dismiss any discussion that seems 'too critical'. The game is in development, you have no stake in attempting to deflect every possible critiquing remark about the devs or paradox in general, especially after the long line of flops as of recent. No need to do free PR work.
We'll see when the game is launched how it is, from what I've read, to me it looks, just like a reworked mana system, and I don't won't another Imperator launch situation
Sure. Absolutely. Everyone who doesn't sign in to your doomer PoV is a flack for Paradox. That's why we're annoyed with you. It's not because 90% of the time when you ask basic questions to people from your camp you get answers like:
Yeah I saw the beginning of it as well, but as someone wrote in the live chat, they really need a paradox simp in that group to counter their arguments. It sounds like an echo-chamber, with no counter-arguments to what they are arguing.
I understand that, I think it has a lot to do with, being an attractive title, so that it gets clicks. Being so, it does say "The most informed and experienced group when it comes to Victoria 2" in the description and they as a group, apart from piechucker, have a lot of experience playing Victoria 2 and creating good mods for it.
I thought picking apart every sentence of a dairy is kind of what this discussion supposed to be about. I also don't think that cynical viewpoint is something bad, it may be healthy for expectations. Paradox still a company that want to make money and carefully approaches PR and all around it and want to make game accessible. How part game is made more accessible at the cost of depth is another major point of how game will be played.
Please, don't act like doomers are the only one at fault of turning this discussion toxic. Who came here we complete dismissal and personal attacks?
Yes, the one guy who seemed to have actually read the dev comments did say that. It had zero impact on the discussion and received zero follow up or elaboration.
Sure, because your arguments were full of constructive thoughts, and you weren't saying from the start how you didn't watch it all, but you still know what they were talking about, and if I said how I think the capacities work, yo would probably just dismiss it, as every comment before
Perhaps I got a little too heated. You implicitly accused me of doing "free PR work", to be fair.
Its really not. Most of this stuff was easily inferable from the dev diary (or this dev diary plus the previous one in combination). And expecting them to read, what, like a dozen dev posts (at most?) is perfectly reasonable.
But should we infer anything? Last time this was the case, we got Imperator. After release discussion devolved into essntially how people misinterpreted dev diares and built up unrealistic expectations.
"Buildings require POPs to work them" is not an unreasonable inference to make.
