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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8146264" data-attributes="member: 82106">Not really. I don't think it is really my business, beyond analyzing them, what anyone decides is the right set of considerations to account for in their game design/choice of design. I advocate for people to use all the tools at their disposal to decide that, that's all. What it FEELS LIKE is that there are a lot of people who, INSTEAD OF doing that analysis just say "no, no, I couldn't possibly do things differently, I have to come up with some unassailable reason to confine myself to what I do now." The most reliable form for that to take is just "my preferences are so set that I cannot/will not reexamine them." Followed often by language about what is 'natural', 'normal', 'popular', etc. Again, it isn't up to me to decide what people should want to do, not at all. OTOH some of these arguments do seem at least as judgemental as when I state the conclusions of my own analysis, and state that it went beyond where some others have gone with theirs. Often I also feel like people armor themselves with these "I have a strong preference" things, and then they are likely to pass on stuff they might actually LIKE.</blockquote>