I think if you experience EA primarily through the forum, you can end up feeling like âwow, EA has a lot of criticism in it, it should have more doingâ. But thereâs a strong selection effect: most of the doing is not on the forum, but most of the criticism is. The forum is an appropriate venue for criticism, and usually isnât an appropriate venue for doing.
Iâd probably go so far as to say that if Iâm writing down a list of the key, essential purposes that the Forum serves, criticism is going to be one of them, probably like⌠one of the top four, alongside news, socialising, and the pretty small amount of âdoingâ that can be done through text conversation with other people.
From the other end, if you have a piece of criticism, and you ask âwhat kind of venue or environment would be ideal for this?â then I think the Forum is not only a place for criticism but usually the place for it, because of the breadth of audience and the shared infrastructure of norms, moderation, and archival /â organization (e.g. tags).
So, thereâs a lot of criticism here, and a lot of the best posts here are criticism. This just seems fine to me, and not an indication that somethingâs wrong. The EA forum is just a part of what the EA community is, and itâs naturally always going to be the most criticism-heavy part.
I think if you experience EA primarily through the forum, you can end up feeling like âwow, EA has a lot of criticism in it, it should have more doingâ. But thereâs a strong selection effect: most of the doing is not on the forum, but most of the criticism is. The forum is an appropriate venue for criticism, and usually isnât an appropriate venue for doing.
Iâd probably go so far as to say that if Iâm writing down a list of the key, essential purposes that the Forum serves, criticism is going to be one of them, probably like⌠one of the top four, alongside news, socialising, and the pretty small amount of âdoingâ that can be done through text conversation with other people.
From the other end, if you have a piece of criticism, and you ask âwhat kind of venue or environment would be ideal for this?â then I think the Forum is not only a place for criticism but usually the place for it, because of the breadth of audience and the shared infrastructure of norms, moderation, and archival /â organization (e.g. tags).
So, thereâs a lot of criticism here, and a lot of the best posts here are criticism. This just seems fine to me, and not an indication that somethingâs wrong. The EA forum is just a part of what the EA community is, and itâs naturally always going to be the most criticism-heavy part.