I still hang on on the GameSpot.com forums, since I was hanging out there long before I got into game development and have quite a few friends. After our latest release I enjoyed reading the comments on the game. Even if there was hyperbole and all over the place, it was still interesting to read the opinions of the people that buy the game. Plus there was one troll who said our game sucked because our director was a woman...even though he's actually just a dude named "Dana". Got a few laughs emailing the link to that one. :P

It does annoy me though to see people make misguided comments about "lazy developers", when really they just don't understand the practical realities of game development. And then of course there's the people who think they understand graphics because they once overclocked their GPU and ran 3DMark06. I really do try help them out and explain things from time to time, but since I don't mention that I'm actually a graphics programmer they don't listen.

Quote:Original post by stupid_programmer
Its the community manager/moderators jobs to filter out all the crap and bring us the stuff that is worth looking at.

QFT.

And for the OP - way to misquote the guy. [sad]