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I understand, and I think this is better.

I know I could have simply deleted your comment, but I waited for you to respond because I didn’t want to be disrespectful. Even though the original review could have given people the wrong impression, I would gain nothing by immediately deleting it and then having others claim that I remove accusations instead of addressing them.

That said, I will eventually remove the unnecessary comments in this discussion because they no longer lead anywhere, including this one. I’ll leave them up for a while so you have time to read my response, and then I’ll delete them.

I also understand that negative feedback can sometimes be helpful. However, I don’t consider every negative opinion to be constructive feedback. Briefly saying that the game looks polished on the surface and then dedicating everything else to criticism is not the kind of feedback I will personally accept as constructive, now or in the future.

I’m not saying that people must only praise my work. If someone genuinely wants their criticism to help me improve as a developer, I expect it to be informed and balanced. They should identify the good aspects with the same specificity they use to identify the flaws. If they are missing important context, they can also ask me questions before reaching conclusions.

Otherwise, it can easily become personal opinions presented as “constructive criticism,” and I don’t consider those two things to be the same