» Mon Dec 12, 2011 9:37 pm "I've been playing with the patch for 3 hours now and I think it's great. The textures are so much better. I haven't come across any dragons yet as have been dungeon crawling. Everyone keeps whining about the patch. You need to stop being little ungrateful kids and stop crying to your mommy's. I don't have any use for magical resistances as I play a warrior, so the patch is fine. Grow up. Thanks Bethesda ignore the haters".
Sound familiar? There are a few points about this type of post that I'd like to address. Firstly, the use of disparaging personal comments towards other forum users. When you say that somebody is whining, or acting like a spoilt child, or crying, you are deliberately attempting to devalue their opinion using no facts but pure emotional segregation. The simple truth is that in almost all instances of people voicing their complaints they have been either coherant and constructive or angry and aggressive. Neither of these can be defined as whining. You are attempting to promote your own view by knocking down the complainer rather than their complaint. This is not constructive and is a terrible debating technique. Used usually in groups of people, this has nothing in common with sound debate but more in common with making other forum users feel like their opinions are worthless despite this being far from the case. Stop doing this. If you cannot argue the facts, don't argue at all. Do not descend to personal insults like thus, which is what they are. You would never speak to a peer like this in real life. It is unacceptable here, too.
Does the new patch work? No. No it doesn't. Love Skyrim, hate Skyrim, any way you look at it this patch has been a total balls-up. I actually find it quite funny, and genuinely feel sorry for whoever was in charge of delivering this patch. I suspect they'll be called in for tea and biscuits. With no biscuits. When I see a post saying that the patch is fine but the user has never used magic resistances, I do very much wonder why they are posting. A good number of these posts (and by 'good number' i mean 'every one that I have read so far') read as though the author doesn't realise that they are not the only one playing the game. Imagine if, for example, there were an oil spill and a huge swath of beaches were severely damaged. You live near a beach on the other side of the country. Your beach is fine. Do you consider all of the people who complain to the company responsible for the spill foolish, because the spill isn't affecting you? Do you believe that, just because you are not directly impacted, it isn't happening? That the people who are upset by this event should stop worrying about it, because they should only be worried if YOU get affected? Let me stop this random anology by saying that the world, like patch development, doesn't revolve around you. So the patch doesn't affect your game? That's very lucky. Try being considerate, and acknowledge that it IS affecting a great many other people.
This has been a long post, so here is a summary. When people complain they are doing so for a reason, and are perfectly within their rights to do so. If you don't agree with their arguments, explain to them why you don't, and debate it. When you descend to make-calling, you devalue your own opinion more than theirs in the eyes of everybody else reading. And when considering whether to argue anybody's complaints, please consider their situation rather than your own. That your game is working fine doesn't suddenly make their complaints null and void. It also won't appease them, or make anybody take your comments seriously.
