I'm sorry I still think you are being overzealous and oversensitive in how you are responding to and framing the content of that thread. Why is that developer not allowed to make some general (and reasonably accurate) remarks about development, budgets and so on without having some concrete incident that triggers those remarks?
I feel like this actively discourages any realistic discussion of industry matters in any sort of public forum, and that is a huge shame.
From my perspective, again, it is generalizing and making a comment / critique of swaths of people doing something I have never seen happen, in literal decades. It builds on the already existing and flawed players vs. devs dynamic that generates a ton of hate and hostility (mostly from players) under false pretenses.
Again it's not that the thing they said is wrong, it's just not a debate or topic I've ever seen any reason to have. It's been kind of implicit, and the way that whole thread reads makes it sounds like it's an inevitable x vs. y confrontational thing that's for sure going to happen and please don't.
We absolutely have to get away from that hostile dynamic of players blaming devs for things, but that also has to include devs communicating with players as if we're in the same hobby (which we are) and put the blame for ills solidly where it belongs: executives and capitalism (oversimplification but mostly not sarcastic). Anything that reinforces the dynamic of us vs. them even unintentionally seems flawed to me, and misguided.
It's not something if I saw it in the wild I would take up arms over, because I'd rather not increase confrontation in these dynamics, but I don't see what purpose it serves. If no one is doing the thing they are posting about, what is the discussion about? It's fine to have philosophical and hypothetical debates but that's not how this is written, it's specifically asking a ton of people to not do something that already doesn't seem to be done. Again, in a way that's fine, but don't frame it as a players vs. devs thing, for sure. I'm certainly not protesting their right to say it, if everyone else involved is interpreting it the way that is more innocuous, great (on Twitter I question that but some parts of Twitter are still alright-ish).
The OP Tweet itself is implying hostility, and while there is a lot of hostile gamers, this is a kind I just don't see. It's likely there will be plenty of hostility leveled at the BG3 team for this or that, even. I think discussing where that comes from and how to dispel it over time (like, culturally) IS a productive discussion, I think implying people are hostile about something and asking them not to be is not productive and possibly even detrimental (implied hostility is rarely taken well on the interwebs).
Speaking of discussion, let's say I'm 100% in the wrong here. There are loads and loads of people that get angry at games released for not matching up or surpassing existing, different games by different people. Is this Tweet helping to deflate that, is it a net neutral, or does it make the situation worse? Ultimately I'd lean towards worse or neutral, because it doesn't really bring any new perspective to light (IMO, although maybe parts of the conversation I didn't see are more illuminating). Outside of hate speech I'm not going to police what people say or how they express themselves, but I can only convey how
I perceive it as someone who hasn't developed a video game (but I guess I have done light design and balancing for physical games and some mods for video ones) but has been in the hobby for so long.
I'm not attempting to convert you to seeing it my way, I'm not trying to attack the devs tweeting, I'm just conveying what it reads like to me, and what conversation I wish it was instead.
