lienem wrote:Just to point out, you don't HAVE to wear Zoraï LA, you can very well wear Tryker or Matis or Fyros, and find that they cover you more. If the snow bothers you, try Tryker boots, Matis caster skirt, Matis top and sleeves and whatever gloves you want. Shouldn't leave much skin uncovered
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Wouldn't it be better if Zorai clothing had a cold weather version (or just a winter cloak), instead of having to make do with the clothing of other races?
All we're saying here is that more clothing options would make the game deeper and more interesting. I find it hard to understand why that idea is so outlandish, and in some cases apparently offensive. I'm not addressing this to you personally, but rather to the thread in general and the motives of those who seem to be against improving the game.
I was going to add that I was surprised at the level of intolerance to any idea that challenges the status quo, but I've seen it far too often on internet game forums. So many people seem to find ideas for improvement offensive. I wonder why that is?
I'm sick to death of people assuming that just because a person has criticisms, it means they're wholly negative about a game. Most criticisms come out of LOVE for a game. I don't know why that's so difficult for some to understand. No one ever helped a game (or anything else for that matter) by endlessly praising it. Neither did anyone ever help things to get better by keeping quiet out of a misguided sense of loyalty when they saw that something could be improved. Nor was any game ever improved by shouting down suggestions, belittling them or making fun of them.
If you truly love something, you have a duty to criticise it. Otherwise you speed its downfall. It's kinda like what Teddy Roosevelt once said: "To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
Similarly, to announce that there must be no criticism of a game is not only disloyal to the game's developer, but is morally treasonable to the people who purchased it.
In my view, the only real measures of love for a game are:
1. You purchased it and didn't return it.
2. You like it enough to criticise it.
If a player doesn't make the effort to criticise a game he likes, in my book that means the player doesn't truly love it, or doesn't have the brains to think critically about it. Every love affair, whether it be between a man and a woman or a player and a game, values and enhances growth. To love is not to value stagnation. The man who loves a woman only as she is now is not truly loving that woman - he is rather trying merely to possess her. So it is with games.
The fact that I purchased the game and that I play the game a lot is evfidence that I like it. Personally, I don't have time to waste singing a game's praises as some forum members like to do. The time I save by not engaging in mindless banter and pointless sycophancy I spend playing the game. When I come to the forums I'm seeking info or posting ideas for improvements. Anything else is, in my view, a waste of effort.
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