Why do people enjoy complaining about a game more than they do playing it?

I love every game that I play, or I wouldn’t be playing it. If I don’t enjoy a game, I find another that I enjoy more. MPQ is the second phone game that I have addictively played for 8 hours a day to pass the time at work, the first was Marvel War of Heroes. I took about six months off when that game shut down, now I have about 18 months in this game.

When things change, I adjust. If I don’t like the changes, I find a way to play around them.

I honestly don’t understand why some people seem to thrive on complaining about a game. It seems like such a sad way to live.

Just a thought: maybe some people like the game AND want it to be better. . .

Not the level of complaint that we see, especially the tone. Accusing a company of all sorts of negative intentions does absolutely nothing to make it better.

People can have levels. They can like the game and have complaints.

Have you smelled General Discussion lately? I am talking about the chronic complainers who seem to really get off on it.

Complaining about complainers seems the saddest way to live.

So the OP admits to doing anything but working.

Donald Trump, is that you?!?!

I am, ashamedly, a Cleveland Browns fan. I love the team but am very, very critical of management and how it is run at this point in time. Same here. The game is great. But management honestly seems to make it worse and have no idea what is really good about the game. Being critical doesn’t mean I don’t like it.

That must be why I enjoy MPQ so much. It’s the Cleveland Browns of mobile games.

sunk-cost fallacy
learned helplessness
inertia

That’s another thing, people sure do spend a lot of energy trying to prove how much they hate something rather than finding something to love.

Oh well, to each his own. I just don’t understand it.

It’s easier to type out a bunch of tired complaints and grandstand about “caring about the customer” than it is to buy 15 new games for 35 bucks during a Steam sale.

Not to mention actually learning how to play them.

See, now I am starting to understand.

When people complain on the forums about a particular topic and other players join in, it means they’re not alone, this problem is bigger and the devs need to fix/adjust the issues in the game in order to maintain their customers

Well, it means a few hundred people feel that way. Or say that they feel that way on the internet. And we’re not always right. Remember when Red Hulk was previewed and everyone thought he was terrible?

For every complaint, there are a thousand happy customers enjoying the game. They can’t, and shouldn’t, “fix” something every time someone gets a few people to whine together.

Cite your source?

People that aren’t complaining are busy playing the game and just enjoying life

Ooh, time for a poll?

Because you can make one complaint and be done, and not have to find time to make 39 more of the same complaints afterwards. >:)