Hellooha, Ahoy, O'Hoy, Hi, and Howdy, all You nice and Beautiful People Out There!
As a game artist, writer, developer, publisher, and such, You have to be able to take critique. And it is very handy if You can learn something from it and use it as fuel that you provide to your future projects to go Broooom. But, now comes The Important But, there is no need to take it up on your chin, when someone comes to give their unfair judgments on your work. It is just totally okay to state that as an artist you don't have to take sh*t, just because You published something.
It's one thing to give fair critiques and rate things in a reasonable manner. And another thing, give one point out of ten, just because you can. And that ain't cool at all. Giving bad reviews based solely on your own ignorance and your egoistic demands for every game to be made out of a single mold, is pointless and rude.
I mean, there is a reason why I don't go to the motorcycle forums/product pages to rate them from the point of view of the bicycle rider who does not either own or ride a motorcycle. Because I got a reason, a rhyme, I can behave myself, I got manners and other nice things like that.
The same goes for the games. No reason to measure a game's Greatness with the scales of video games when it is a freeform TTRPG. Somehow there still are some people who act like they would not know any better. And then they go around sh*tting on the creators. That simply is not fair or reasonable.
But yeah. *ranting and panting* Wanted to say this about that, because these things matter. It is not good for our gaming community that there are way too many game designers, artists, etc., who are afraid to make and publish their games because unfair attacks against game makers make them way too scared. And that isn't cool at all. And it's a great loss for the gaming culture... So, please, treat people with respect, when you rate their games, ok? Thanks, in advance!
Wishing You all Great and the Best,
Krisse Tuominen.