mZuzek said:
You literally just did, he's a male gamer who joined in 2007 and has posted here 11 times. Seriously though, you're being quite silly here. Like, saying people shouldn't openly criticize Nintendo because it's a company they "love". People might love Nintendo's games, in some occasions even some of the people behind the scenes, they might like the way Nintendo handles themselves about a lot of things, but Nintendo is still a worldwide company driven by profit and if they are doing something anti-consumer, then they deserve to be criticized at the very least. In fact, if you wanna do this thing where you pretend issues with a worldwide company can be a personal thing, let's take it to a more personal level. If a close friend of yours did something repulsive, would you defend them or criticize them? They deserve criticism, if you love them you're probably the most qualified to do it because they'll know you're not just openly berating them for the sake of being a hater, you're doing it because you're genuinely disappointed and want to see them improve. That's how things should be. That's not how things are when it comes to an average consumer vs. a worldwide company, but in your example, it is still the right thing to do. You might think this collection isn't anti-consumer, and that's okay, but a lot of people see it that way and they're in their right to complain about it. This has nothing to do with the fucking end of the world, either, it's ridiculous to say we can't complain about small things like these just because there are greater issues in the world - especially considering how we really have no control over those whatsoever. I don't know why you ever got so defensive over a clearly low-effort compilation of old games, but you made yourself look bad while at it. Just go ahead, buy the game, enjoy it, there are a lot of people who will do just that and be fine with it. The games are good, after all. But people are in their right to complain if they think the product could've (or should've) been better, which is probably the case here. |
I said nothing about openly criticizing a company that people love. I'm all for being critical, you should see me vent on Other M. And if a friend did something shitty, if you want to take it to a personal level, I certainly wouldn't make a public stand against them. I'd tell them in a friendly way that they were behaving in an uncool manner. But this isn't a personal friend, of course. I'm simply suggesting that creating a cry campaign against a company to demand a free product is pretty sad, and that such energy would better be used for something more worthwhile. Again, I'm not against the sentiment, I'm against openly creating a campaign to cause a company to give away something for free to save PR face. It's silly. If you don't like the product, don't buy it. Them adding SMG2 to an underwhelming collection isn't going to sway the haters anyway.
