Because when they don't... this happens. Asserting opinion as if it is fact is going to derail discourse. Not in any way that is moderatable, but in a way that should be discouraged in order to foster good discussion.

Although this thread is much longer than many we've had recently, so who knows...

What I find the most disingenuous are the fans of a company who will label another companies products “kiddie” or “immature” but will then lavish praise on games created in the same style by their favoured company. If the mascot in a game is a stuffed toy, part of the audience that it will appeal to are those who enjoy playing with stuffed toys, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with video game companies creating products that will appeal to wide and varied demographics.

Oh damn! Almost 200 posts in a few hours =P

I suppose that I can agree this if that was his point.  I have not played PSABR, so I cannot tell you definitively if it's a clone or not but I have a strong feeling that it just might be from what I've seen...

I went into LBP with great enthusiasm. What I found was a soulless, joyless experience with awful controls and menu designs. The music is good, and the art style is nice, but it all ends there for me. There is no comparing it to Mario, not for a second.

Turns out that LBP Karting and PSASBR are the same way, so no surprises there.

To the OP, Sony did make their own SMB game, and it was a failure by comparison.

you seem pretty offended by them, and oddly so considering how many similar inoffensive memes populate the web

otherwise i really cannot understand why you would be so picky on these and, despite your long record of postng on this website, not by facepalms

so that is why LBP is better than Mario : imagination

I know that when you are enjoying a game, sales does not matter. But in the long run they do matter, because the more money Sony get from that franchise, the more support (and sequels) that franchise will get, making us, the gamers more happy :)

For example if the first GOW game would have sold like crap, a sequel would not exist; and even though it was an amazing game, we ( I ) would be very sad for not having a sequel (and the eventually sequel to the sequel, and prequels).

At least for now LBP is selling really great, but nothing spectacular.  It would be very nice to see an LBP game (and every other 1st party Sony game) to sell 10M :D

What I get from this is that there's nothing necessarily wrong with asserting your opinion without explicitly saying "imo." Rather, it's the reaction that's the problem. This shows me that it's the other people posts who should be discouraged, not the original post. Saying something is wrong because other people can't react respectfully doesn't make sense to me. The other people's actions should be what's wrong.

Now, of course, if he were making several posts and constantly quoting people asserting his opinion, then that should be discouraged. However, he made one post in response to the OP. That one post was met with responses also claiming an opinion as fact. However, unlike Bananaking's post, the responses were often riddled with beliitling and undermining remarks. Those are the posts that should be discouraged, not the original post.

People can have a decent discussion without explicitly typing "imo" as long as they remain respectful. The problem isn't a lack of "imo," the problem is a lack of respect. Disrespect should be discouraged, not the exclusion of "imo." 

But for everyone lacking imagination Mario is better...? ;)