[2021] I think I like Jingles off the leash better than when he was a CC

CCs rarely know what is ahead for the game more than 1-2 patches out, except in rare cases when content is in non-public testing stages for extended periods. CC Summits were designed to give a longer development view, but the pandemic put a stop to that for an indefinite period.

Also, It’s fine to change your mind and have a different opinion than in the past, as long as both positions are constructed around facts and make sense. Unfortunately, as with the majority of modern online user-generated content (although this category stops being accurate anymore), it is up to the viewer to analyze whether what the content creator says makes sense, because they are mostly opinion pieces. The best and closest example is that even in this thread there are users who characterize Jingles’ content very differently and it’s likely that none of these users can claim that they actually reviewed all of the content stringently to be able to claim that their position has all the facts right.

Best,

I absolutely agree with the assessment on perspective coloring the communications channel. It's very obvious that we have different goals from each and every player, and that each of those players has a different goal than the other.

Unfortunately that's also why its difficult for us to agree with players on general statements like "not enough attention to the game's health", because every player has a different understanding of what makes the game healthy, because those ideas are not related to the business model of the game in 99.99% cases (accounting for potential gamedev among us), and because for most of them the game's health is not the objective anyway.

The game is generally healthy from a business point of view. It's an interesting subject to talk about in general, but players would have to accept that we know how to operate it successfully, which is an unreasonable expectation for me to have at this time.

It's an opinion of someone who doesn't like an arcade implementation of submarines into an arcade-style game. That is about the only truth I found in there and it made me sad. Not because he trashes WG, but because his arguments used to make sense.