MAX MCGEE'S PROFILE

Man it's super awesome how this forum doesn't have an ignore user function really glad we got rid of that that was definitely a great decision.

Versalia: go fuck yourself, to death.

There is literally no part of anything you posted that isn't 100% wrong. I can't even be bothered to break down why on a sentence-by-sentence basis for everyone to see. It would take too long.

Also, make better games and the community will probably like them more.

The greatest lie ever told.

This is just such a total, outright lie that I can no longer even be angry at the frank dishonesty of it.

After a while, you just have to laugh at all the bullshit.

Every game I have released in the past three years has been better than the last game I released and has had a worse reception with more hostility.

Makes sense! I forget that my hours and days and weeks of labor produce only minutes of actual gameplay. I should think more from the player perspective.

I think it goes back to calling this game quite possibly the best game ever created or ever will be. Hype down, not up.

If anyone couldn't tell I was kidding, I seriously question their sense of humor. The truth is, the "marketing" style of this project and Mage Duel Extreme was intentionally self-deprecating in the extreme. I'm not sure how much more humble I can get than jokingly calling something "Codename: The Greatest Game That Ever Was Or Will Be".

All feedback you got so far is very constructive, in the way it points you in the direction of making the right changes.

I emphatically disagree; the majority of actionable feedback was actioned as of the last release. Most of the rest of the feedback I've received that hasn't been actioned already is feedback that I've deemed inactionable. I.E. things I cannot or will not change for various reasons I don't want to discuss in-depth here.

But there hasn't been even a blip of improvement of attitude for any of the requested changes I've made to "my" game.

Anyway...

The truth is, I firmly believe that RMN taken as a whole, as a hive-mind entity will never like anything I produce, regardless of its quality, because RMN doesn't like me and is all and all intellectually dishonest in the extreme. This is a generalization, and is not meant to refer to every single individual user of RMN; many of them are really decent people. I'm not even saying that *I* dislike *RMN*. I really enjoy conversing with many of you both on the forums and in IRC. But in general the PH of this community is very acidic, at least to me personally, at least toward my games.

So making better games/new games/different games seems pointless because the response I get is always completely unrelated to the quality of the game in question. Journeyman is technically speaking hugely better than games I've made in the past that have been better received; the reason it's technically better is because it incorporates feedback from past reviews of past games. Nonetheless, its reception is worse, because RMN as a whole likes me even less now than it did then; I grow more hated with each post, it seems, and if there's anything I should really work on, it's that.

Don't bother calling me "delusional" or calling this a "rationalization" or making lengthy arguments about this, you won't sway me. At this point there is absolutely no way to convince me that the amount of flak my games have gotten is totally or even mostly related to their own merits. If anyone else had released To Arms! or Journeyman I think that people would by and large have eaten them up and they'd be immensely popular; there'd certainly be less controversy. But I am, unfortunately, a controversial character.

I'm pretty sure I could demonstrably prove all of this if I really wanted to, but I'd rather make games than win an argument on the internet. The only thing that slows me down in doing so is the chip on my shoulder the size of a dumptruck. Sometimes that chip gets caught on things, and bashes out posts like this one.

At the risk of sounding trite, the worst case scenario of some part of this post offending someone seems to be that there will be seventy or a hundred posts flaming me after this one; as that might cause someone who would actually *like* this game to download it, that's an acceptable risk.

One who bootlicks is not necessarily a bootlicker, don't twist my words brah.

It's not like I haven't given out my fair share of effusive glowing gushing praise aka bootlicking myself.

Anyway I was just making the point that so many of the people telling me to "get over it" have never had it happen to them, so their telling me to get over it is patently ridiculous; they don't know what it's like. (There are a very few exceptions.)

EDIT: I'm not looking to start a fight.