Discussion Thread: direct commits of balance changes without player input

[Drewmajor11]

https://mikemcquaid.com/2018/03/19/open-...u-nothing/

Ok I actually went and looked through this article quickly and, while I understand where you are coming from to a degree. This is just un needed and shows no degree of respect for criticism even when its an attempt to be constructive and not just an hateful attack. The people play here too and want to enjoy the game, I understand that you don't need to listen to everything we say or make every knee jerk change that some random yells about. But I've seriously only learned about changes from skimming discord or forums pages where its randomly mentioned most of the time recently, it keeps happening and some are not so great. That article basically states to not care in the slightest what anyone says, over rule all opinions and tell the user to go fuck themselves.
 

• "For contributors: defer to maintainers and ensure that you’ve read all relevant contribution documentation. They are the ones running the project and ultimately their word goes. Understand that it’s not the job of the maintainers to teach you how the project works (or actually anything)." 

• This specifically comes off very rude and counter productive, I understand its not your duty to maintain this game and continually work on it to everything the players say but, simply discussing and thinking about these changes with the players first is all most of us want. What we get instead is changes instantly which we don't even learn about without diving into discord and forums or the times its added to the changelog and noticed. Then when people complain or want an change or even just more ability to talk about a change and have a conversation, all you provide is responses that are un productive and harmful to the community and coders reputation. 

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Also, fuck bullet points it randomly formatted itself like this.