Rant incoming.
I'm sorry, but the ones who really should feel looked down on is us. I can't be bothered with all this political correctness bullshit anymore. I'm not sucking up to anyone to get my point across. I'm saying it how I see it. And I don't give a flying fuck how any of them feel. I'm the one parting with my money and the only feelings that matters to me is mine. I don't owe anyone anything.
I, and many of us, just want all these faults gone, man. Simple as that.
/Rant over.
I've done what I thought was right with that poll. I've seen the complaints, took it upon myself, acted as a community rep and passed it on. Done my part. That is all. I thought everyone preferred a SIM game, you know, how football is played irl, since we're all football fans and all. Silly me. Should've known people wanted tennis in football clothing and anyone wanting otherwise would hurt feelings.
Look, in all honesty, and quite frankly, I'm just sick and tired of the yearly deja vus, from silly hype season to frustration season. It's the same God damn shit every god damn year and it's been going for god knows how long now. I can sit here and tell you who will post what in detail. I know who's happy and who isn't and who wants what. "The nets suck", "passing assistance levels don't matter", "the stadiums not enough", "basketball shorts", "need more licenses", "the pitches look bland", "the lighting is bad", "footplanting sucks", "collision detection needs fixing", "the animations are robotic", "the keepers are floaty", "the shooting is one dimensional", "fouls are absent", "refs are shit", "no pks", "stats don't matter", "no 1v1s with gk", "no midfield battles", "that stumbling animation", "bad defense lines", "constant end to end games", "bad AI positioning", "form arrows suck", "catchup bug", "ML scripting", "ML regens", "ML match schedules suck", "no day games in ML", "first touch isn't good", "accurate passes from impossible angles", and on and on and on. They're not wrong you see. And these issues are too many to ignore. Any other game with so much wrong would be considered a a bad game. Konami has said time and again they're after realism. If so then it's only normal we expect a SIM. If they're after arcade then say so and stop selling realistic this and that, because that's what we'll be looking for. It is tiring and very daunting seeing it every year and feeling completely powerless about all the complaints and what phenomenon the game could've been and then waiting and hoping the next one doesn't disappoint and finally delivers at least the fundamentals right, yet I still see the same complaints mentioned above. Again. Every year. And when we mention these issues to Konami, because we actually care and want the issues gone, because we are the ones who buy the god damn game every year and genuinely want to play it all year long, which is keeping this game relevant to this day, every year, we get shut off and told to wait until we play. To top it all off, they go running to the FIFA influencers who'd never buy nor have the slightest interest in their game. Then tell us they had no time for our issues and their priorities lie elsewhere. Then we see... Faces! Who no one complained about. And Usain Bolt! And whatever irrelevant cosmetic bullshit. But yes, they're more important than having more variety in scoring goals. More important than getting the fouls or midfield play or footplanting right. "Let's spend all our man hours on more irrelevant stuff and ignore all the issues we should be fixing, add a few animations on top of the robotic ones we already have and there we have it, our next evolution! Now let the suckers buy it". *Sigh*"I've created this poll in response to the many complaints about end to end arcade football that's been in PES for a while now."
I like Lami, have a lot of time for him but this is the first mistake in that thread.
Y'see, if one were to start off like that you are immediately talking down to both fans and the developers.
I have respect for you as well, Matt (follow you on twitter, subbed to your youtube channel), but I think it was you who tweeted/posted something during a livestream which read along the lines of how you couldn't believe that only you out of 1,300 watching were able to see positioning issues. That's talking down again, intentional (which I don't think it is, given your gentlemanly approach) or otherwise.
Polls on a community website aren't going to do it, especially not if it laced with accusations, directly or indirectly, that the developers are making an arcade game. Even using the term "arcade" is quite frankly lazy, and again is talking down.
I'll be completely honest: if I were producing something and there was a small passionate community talking downwards and in hyperbolic phrases about my efforts I would start to ignore them too. That is not controversial statement as you see it everywhere. Of course, doing so can come with many problems. I don't think Konami/Adam/Asim/whatever are doing that, not by a long shot.
Lami references change.org and alike, but this isn't some political outrage and our elected leaders are letting us down. We are talking about artists, creators and yeah, number/code crunchers when considering the development team in Japan. You need to look to engage with them in a way they can relate to.
Posting up polls, making Youtube videos in which you talk about an issue using a stream of a fixture in isolation isn't going to do it. Us whining about it on here isn't going to do it. None of these things will engineer change, because we start to come across as nothing more than occasionally useful idiots. Our passion, our wearing a sim-nation badge with pride, completely unapologetically and showing no compromise can easily communicate as hate just as much as FIFA fanboys shitting on the game does. This isn't exclusive to PES. You see it in politics (especially) too.
People saying they are fans who go way back with the series isn't enough. There needs to be a new way found to communicate and articulate. There certainly needs to be more empathy and more of a reality check across the board.
I'm sorry, but the ones who really should feel looked down on is us. I can't be bothered with all this political correctness bullshit anymore. I'm not sucking up to anyone to get my point across. I'm saying it how I see it. And I don't give a flying fuck how any of them feel. I'm the one parting with my money and the only feelings that matters to me is mine. I don't owe anyone anything.
I, and many of us, just want all these faults gone, man. Simple as that.
/Rant over.
I've done what I thought was right with that poll. I've seen the complaints, took it upon myself, acted as a community rep and passed it on. Done my part. That is all. I thought everyone preferred a SIM game, you know, how football is played irl, since we're all football fans and all. Silly me. Should've known people wanted tennis in football clothing and anyone wanting otherwise would hurt feelings.