Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-50.151.164.187-20141130095923/@comment-173.58.251.107-20141207090623

XDex wrote: 173.58.251.107 wrote: Most arguments from fans that I've met when I point out flaws in their show have the attitude of "Lallalaalalalalala I'm not listening to teh insignificant user who's opinion don't matter to the developers lalalalallalalalaa". In the past, most of the criticism was either matters of preference ("it's called RWBY, not JNPR", or "why aren't there nonstop fight scenes, they lied to us with the trailers"), or something that was clearly being worked on ("animation sucks", or "the episodes are too short"). A lot of it was criticism for the sake of criticism, and not particularly constructive. Kind of like complaining about lack of nicely polished features in a public beta. It's not that anyone doesn't think there's issues, it's just that most people accept the issues, knowing they'll go away eventually.

I think now that the show has started to move toward being even remotely refined (probably going to be another volume or two before the "leaps and bounds" phase is finished), it opens the door for people to actually make valid critique without being completely shot down.

There's that too.

I do think the episode length was a valid criticism, it wasn't really worth wait vs. reward when all we got was a few scenes before Jaune got picked up and beaten up by Cardin (that episode was sort of a "I waited this long for THAT?" moment for me).

As for "It's called RWBY, Not JNPR." Okay, I'm not exactly the biggest "Jaune having a big role" fan out there, but I accept he's a valuable plot character, it's just the fairly short lengths of the episodes prevent the large amount of characters from all gaining adequate roles in the show.

They'll eventually get it right, they did with RvB.