MAX MCGEE'S PROFILE

author=Max McGee
To elaborate, then, at Deckiller's request.

1) Versalia believes that an environment of tough love, in which reviewers and critics of games are encouraged to be as harsh and critical as possible, and game developers are fully expected to meekly accept that kind of treatment. His goal is for such an environment to create a crucible in which stronger games can be forged due to the increased heat and pressure. He believes that any developer who objects to such treatment should be struck down, that they are a "pantywaist" who can't take the heat, that they should learn to sublimate their feelings and eagerly and meekly accept the feedback and criticism of everyone operating under the default assumption that their critics are right, and they are wrong. That they are students, and that their critics are teachers. He believes that this humility should be enforced as harshly as possible until receptive submission becomes the dominant attitude, the socially reinforced pose of creator: to take a whipping, and to learn from it.

2) I prefer a future in which the critics and reviewers of games are better encouraged to be positive and constructive, to be receptive and open to joy. To look for good things to say about games, and to, if they have bad things to say, make sure that the criticism is given constructively. The burden of a positive feedback giving experience would be more on the giver of the feedback than of the receiver. The creative process is an innately fragile thing, it should be handled delicately. I believe in this non-crucible theory for two reasons. One, I am immensely grateful to everyone who makes RPG Maker games, and I have immense respect for them. The truth is that even if their game is awful--and that I don't think my own games should be considered bad by any reasonable standard is really irrelevant here--the following things are true. a) That they spent an enormous amount of time and effort on it. b) That they're giving away a game to us to play, for free! For both of these reasons, I think that the process and attitude of giving feedback should be treated with more courtesy and respect by the givers of feedback. The makers of games are doing us a favor by making them, I firmly believe that--not the other way around. We aren't doing them a favor by playing them. Two is that I believe that an environment where no matter what the developers of games are treated with more respect and kindness will result in the community producing more and better games. More, because less people will quit due to fractured motivation. Better, because developers will be more likely to valid feedback if it's phrased constructively. I think that if we make this place more comfortable, by lowering the acidity and the pressure, we can nurture the construction of more better games and more pleasant discourse about them.

Versalia believes in a world where everyone would agree my reaction was totally unacceptable.

I believe in a world where everyone would agree that his actions were totally unacceptable.