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This was 7 years ago. What good would vapid praising comments do?



I'm saying authors of such content should be cherished for sharing it, and after writing a 30 minute-long article they may deserve some criticism that goes beyond the "obviously they failed with such a name/marketing/game/whatever" seems way too cheap and dismissive especially if not really motivated.


How is it dismissive when that is the reason why they failed? What more can one way when they see a game that doesn't have any interesting visuals, a generic name and overly niche gameplay?

Even ignoring that this is a very old article, what sort of feedback do you expect people to give?


>Even ignoring that this is a very old article, what sort of feedback do you expect people to give?

Something higher quality than the most common bike shedding comment in history. Names are important but not tue end all be all.

It's also useless feedback becsuse as you said: it's a very old article and the author already acknowledged 7 years ago that the name and genre it got assumedly stuck into didn't help. It's not only not useful feedback, it shows people did not read the article.


It's interesting that you think seven-year-old positive comments are vapid, but seven-year-old negativity is not.




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