If we replace 'FC' with the also-accurate 'massively skilled and/or overpowered character with nigh-unto limitless resources compared to everyone else on the game', it's suddenly less of a mystery why FCs never, and will never, work.
I suppose staff feel less like they're rewarding themselves or the chosen few by not calling them that, though.
@faraday said in Star Wars: Insurgency:
But seriously - for those who think it's a bad idea for FCs to be PCs, or to be in everyday scenes, or to be less awesome than their movie counterparts, maybe just... don't play there? Constructive criticism is one thing, but I don't get the need to rain hostile critiques down on a game just because it isn't to your tastes. Especially on their own advertisement thread.
Not so constructive: "Having FCs as PCs is a horrible idea. They don't belong in everyday scenes. They should only ever be questgivers, period, end of discussion. This game is doooomed. But hey, good luck trying the same thing that 72 other games have tried and failed at. I'll just get the popcorn and wait for the Luke TS logs."
'Hostile critiques' and 'this is not constructive' is subjective, unless someone invented a meanness metric while I wasn't looking and gave the Meanness Police the ability to hand out tickets.
Maybe they want a good Star Wars game, have seen this exact same road travelled many, many times before, and are pointing out, "Hey, this has been tried fifty times and never worked," in hopes of avoiding example number fifty-one.
In my opinion, things don't tend to improve unless people speak up when they think they see a problem, and aren't told to pipe down because it might be a little mean. I suppose your mileage varies from mine.
Edit: "A little mean" isn't what I'm trying to get at. "Not perfectly worded" is closer.