How do false words of encouragement help anyone to improve? Honest criticism is far more useful.
People need to be less precious about their work. If they become depressed, suicidal, or enraged about the feedback they receive then they need to mature their outlook and approach to creating games. Look, if a chef served you a turd in a restaurant, would you say "That was delicious!"? No, because then the chef would think that serving up turds was a good idea. He wouldn't know how to better serve his customers; he wouldn't know how to improve his stinky treats or even that they needed to be improved at all.
I understand your points regarding piracy, but just because you use pirated software doesn't mean that you should shout it from the rooftops - or attempt to lie your way out of it when someone says "Hang on a minute...". If I used pirated software, I certainly wouldn't talk about it here.
People need to be less precious about their work. If they become depressed, suicidal, or enraged about the feedback they receive then they need to mature their outlook and approach to creating games. Look, if a chef served you a turd in a restaurant, would you say "That was delicious!"? No, because then the chef would think that serving up turds was a good idea. He wouldn't know how to better serve his customers; he wouldn't know how to improve his stinky treats or even that they needed to be improved at all.
I understand your points regarding piracy, but just because you use pirated software doesn't mean that you should shout it from the rooftops - or attempt to lie your way out of it when someone says "Hang on a minute...". If I used pirated software, I certainly wouldn't talk about it here.