I mention this partly because the top-level comment here is seriously concerning. “InIn’s content is so low-quality that it’s doing more harm than good” and “InIn regularly engages in dishonest promotional techniques” are both really, really serious charges. Using the fact that people have made one serious substantive criticism to try to discredit any other serious substantive criticism they raise is really bad at the community-norms level. More generally, responding to fair, correct, relevant criticisms in large part by trying to discredit the critics is super bad form and shouldn’t be seen as normal or OK. Repeatedly accusing people raising (basically fair) concerns of ‘costing lives’ because they took the time to fix your mistakes for you is also super bad form and definitely shouldn’t be seen as normal or OK. I really don’t want casual readers to skim through the comments here, see a highly upvoted comment, and assume that the comment therefore reflects EA’s community standards / beliefs / etc.
I mention this partly because the top-level comment here is seriously concerning. “InIn’s content is so low-quality that it’s doing more harm than good” and “InIn regularly engages in dishonest promotional techniques” are both really, really serious charges. Using the fact that people have made one serious substantive criticism to try to discredit any other serious substantive criticism they raise is really bad at the community-norms level. More generally, responding to fair, correct, relevant criticisms in large part by trying to discredit the critics is super bad form and shouldn’t be seen as normal or OK. Repeatedly accusing people raising (basically fair) concerns of ‘costing lives’ because they took the time to fix your mistakes for you is also super bad form and definitely shouldn’t be seen as normal or OK. I really don’t want casual readers to skim through the comments here, see a highly upvoted comment, and assume that the comment therefore reflects EA’s community standards / beliefs / etc.