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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Matt Thomason" data-source="post: 6327098" data-attributes="member: 6777331">No, the first criticism would be "wow, these people really suck for playing that way." He isn't saying that.  He's saying "I dislike how the game was moving away from my own preferred playstyle."  At no point does that indicate he doesn't think it's okay to play other ways, just that he doesn't want to and would like to see the game move back to supporting his own preferred playstyle.  He even goes out of his way to say it's fine for you to play however you want, but this is how he wants to play.  There is a huge difference between criticizing a game because it doesn't fit the way you want to play, and with criticizing other people's personal playstyle.  Can he not state his likes and dislikes?  He can't in any way, shape, or form be mistaken about his own gaming preferences, so there's really no argument to be had.  Is he somehow a horrible person for wanting to play this way rather than another way?   No - no more than anyone else is for playing the way they want to.   There's no problem here with the people that simply disagree with him over game style preference and are stating that -  we're all allowed to have and to state preferences - it's the ones that are coming out with insulting comments and stating he's somehow wrong to want these things. He can want whatever he wants.We're all allowed our preferences, and to state them, and to state why a product doesn't work for us and our dislike for it. What we shouldn't ever do, however, is shoot anyone else down over what their own preferences are.  I don't particularly like grapefruit, and I'll quite happily state that publicly - but that doesn't mean I'm in any way attacking people that do.  He doesn't like RPGs designed such that players can mathematically discover ways to create a superior character and that give too much of a bonus to the people that take the time to find those loopholes over a player that just picked the options that narratively fit the image of their character in their head - that isn't a criticism of the people that do, it's only him saying that he wants to play a different style of game to that.</blockquote>

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