GAMES AND WHY YOU PLAY THEM

Same.

Yeah, I think the problem on all RPG Maker sites is that a lot of people want their games played and reviewed, but aren't willing to do the same. I've managed to break that bad habit, and have been greatly entertained/inspired as a result.

Remember what I've said...
1) I am way to ambitious to endeavor evolving my ideas into games ALL BY MYSELF
2) RPG Maker is not a good enough medium in which to evolve my ideas into games.

Oh proceed to hell, proceed directly to hell, do not pass go, do not collect $200. I could probably name two dozen people who made better games in RPG maker all by themselves than you could make with a $10 Billion budget and the entire Bioware team under your direct command. I am not flaming you in particular I just hate BOTH of these fucking attitudes and combined together they are like a megazord of bullshit.

I have avoided posting in the last six or so pages of this thread for (In?)obvious reasons, but I strongly agree with that last thing Solitayre said.

He may just have pinpointed the one thing about the community I would change if I could only change one thing.

This, on the other hand, I can't DISagree with more:

As such, the biggest reason I don't play games, is because I AM playing a game. RPG Maker isn't programming or anything really, it's just playing a game.

But this is LEGION disagreeing with DUDESOFT here so no one needs to die of shock or anything.

Am I the only guy who plays his own games...?

Obviously no, from everyone else's responses. I love PLAYING my games. I fucking hate TESTING them. Super fucking massively important distinction. One of my main motivations to finish a game is so I can finally stop TESTING it and fucking play it, although sometimes I need a year or more in between so that PLAYING no longer feels like TESTING by habit.

It is so nice to be able to just play your own game for an hour without having to quit out and fix some infuriating error in the database.

Final Edit:

I think even chipping away at little things helps. For example, commenting on gamepages, blogs, and actually giving feedback when a creator could really use it, for improvements sake and for simple encouragement.

I agree, and I also notice that I seem to give a lot more than I get in this regard. Now before anyone says 'lol sour grapes' may I point out this is directly important to the topic at hand? Because when I feel like I'm commenting on other peoples' shit and they are ignoring mine in turn, it makes me only want to comment on the games of people who have commented on my games, the 'reciprocal paradigm' that is so problematic and yet so deeply entrenched. Does anyone know what I'm talking about here? Does anyone feel the same way here? I really want to know.

With all due respect Mitsu, my response to your comment was NOT caused by misunderstanding what you said. I understood what you said entirely, and that was my response. But I saw after posting that it was requested that we move on from this topic, so let's do that.