Satisfied/happy people, tend to enjoy what they're satisfied with rather than bring out their computers to express their opinions online about it. It's very human. Which is why you pretty much dominantly find negative-loaded topics online, because if you were having a blast, you'd probably be busy having a blast. Naturally it's not as black and white as that, as I'd like to think motivations play a heavy part too, you can love something and be critical of it, often because you love it and want to love it even more.
With that said, you navigate online communities as a developer, looking for the productive ideas and comments, and try to not let the negativity get to you. Most often you understand this phenomenon and that isn't really as difficult of a task as it might sound like. But in order to be heard, my 50 cents would be to convey your thoughts without fixating on someone else or to combat their opinion (hey, it's just opinions in the end of the day), or being ranty about it. If you can do that, even if it's highly critical and "against" the product, you can be sure it has the best chance possible to be read in detail by the eyes that matter, and those eyes will thrive in it.
Just be civil, guys. What that other person thinks doesn't matter, it's not a competition of who's more right. If you ever find yourself in that position, you've already lost the battle where it actually matters, and you're on the fast-track into pointless-territory.
Yeah, this is very true
I think my best experiences on a forum are when it has a gameplay aspect to it too. Not like the basic social media upvote/downvote type stuff, but amusing polls or guides or subsections with gamesaves or screens, or the' show us your character' type threads that is curated with an eye towards making it fun. Maybe the discord is more fun. Forums perhaps could use some love also with categories that lean in gameful directions? There's a field in the profile to enter a class and alignment, maybe something with that, or perhaps carving it up a bit more in the sections with negative plane protection in mind, or with a specific spot for sour grape gripes to cordone it off. I don't know though. Forums are always a bit like riding the dragon this way. I'd like to post more random thoughts on scimitars vs sabres, or whatever is going with Mods at nexus, or linking up to wikis like
https://baldursgate3.wiki.fextralife.com/Weapons but right now don't really know where to go. And the way things are set up, it's kinda like who knows where the next delayed fireball is going to burst hehe. Anyhow, nice to hear the view. Hope your weekend goes well hehe
