Very well spoken Tiffin <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/up.gif" alt="" /> I agree with pretty much every word you said.

Except maybe for the different-threads-about-the-same-subject topic; I think the real point of the issue is not that so many are complaining about the same subject, but rather that they're doing it in twenty different places. On an Internet forum there is simply no reason to open a new "room" to talk about a subject people are already talking about. The Larians would still get an idea of the number of, for example, DK voice complaints, if they were all vented in one thread.
Of course, since we're only humans, this is never gonna happen. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

I very much agree with this point in particular:
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This may be shocking to you eo420, but in my business, it is results, and not effort that matters. I expect the same is true in computer gaming.

It may sound hard, but it's true. They don't hand out Oscars because the movie makers "tried very hard" (ok, Oscars may not be the greatest example <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" /> ). They don't praise Mozart because of the time and effort he put into his work (ok, partly, they do <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> ). The point is, if something, be it a part of a work or the whole thing in general, is not state of the art, there is nothing wrong with people criticizing it. But then we get to the point Barta was making: some people just don't know the difference between criticizing and bashing. And if there'd be anything that bothered me in threads like these, it's those big mouth people who have no clue what the word respect means.

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