This is just one of those weird video game things that can’t be explained as anything but game balance.  My other favorite in many older video games was the “flashlight battery that lasts 30 seconds” which was especially funny in sci-fi futuristic games where you’d expect battery technology to be rather more advanced…

I have at this point done the Towers of Hanoi so many times in video games that it’s no big deal to me, but I can see how someone who’s never run into it is going to be stuck there awhile.

Yeah, but just think of all the money Bioware has saved by having NEVER hired someone who knows how to do hair physics!

And as a bonus, you instantly make someone a proponent of raising the federal minimum wage?

That’s the thing. The Republican party electorate is composed almost entirely of people with absolutely no critical thinking skills whatsoever. If their leaders tell them that a million illegals voted in the last election in California, not one of these dipshits actually stops to ask, “Gee... how would that even be…

Fox isn’t going on trial for any of that. Incitement has to lead to an immediate violent action for there even to be the beginning of a case against them. Trump was in trouble potentially for his rally just prior to the riot. I still don’t know why he’s not already in jail. He told them to march down there and fight…

no pointless, empty open world to wander around and be bored by...

It’s probably more accurate to say they want to rule our lives, period. Religion is just a tool to accomplish that.

Telling and justifying aren’t the same thing. The attempt here was to justify this by claiming players can’t be trusted to know what they want so if they are asking for a feature, it’s okay to ignore them.

Just because the whole mob is doing it doesn’t make it right.

“They are not creating art works...” - Wow, I bet a ton of artists that have worked on video games would feel a pain in their chest from your words.

What the player lacks, is the ability to see if they would have made the same choice had they seen how it impacted their entire playthrough of the game down the line.

That’s fine for crash/power-out protection. Not for a game-breaking bug though. If your game doesn’t have any of those, great! But more and more these days that’s getting rare. At least shortly after release anyway.

Your first post ended with you saying it’s about ego, not art is a little disrespectful to those you disagree with, I think you are open-minded enough to see why.

I think it’s fair for a developer who knows their game intimately to make an educated choice on what people will enjoy, than a player who cannot make an informed choice because they don’t fully understand what they are opting out of or in to by making a choice with no context or mechanical understanding against which…

Eh... I won’t say it’s always the same people but there are some parallels. Any discussion of any kind of self-censorship usually gets into “it’s art!” territory eventually too.

It wouldn’t be the game they developers built and you have no right to demand...

By “calibrate” do you mean charging up to 100% and then driving it down almost all the way?

You’re overthinking it, I think. Let me just go back to what you said:

I tried, but I should have known given how aggressive you were before I even said anything worth being aggressive over.