For anybody who makes mods, hearing what people dislike about a game is invaluable. It helps to set up level design to not make the same mistakes that the game's designers made when building maps.
The "bitching" also helps developers to target where they went wrong, although a word or two about how great the game is can go a long way towards a thread being read. I know that in Software Quality Control, where I work, we are always interested in finding out what our clients think about our product, the good is nice, but the bad helps us to pinpoint where to make changes to our product. Feedback is critical in a cutthroat buisiness like this, and failure to take constructive criticism is deadly. To take that criticism though, it has to first be put forth and a forum like this is a good way to do that.
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August 19, 1942
