57 minutes ago, pApA^LeGBa said:Still refusing to have any good reason why something that doesn´t effect you at all bothers you so much.
Every setting added increases the complexity of the game. Each new setting increases the possibility of adding a hard to track down bug now or in the future. It also increases the load on the QA testers as they now have more permutations that should be/need to be tested. I say this to simply point out that there is a cost to every addition of a new setting both now and in the future. And its for TFP to weigh whether that cost is worth it. None of us know how simple, hard, or prone to causing bugs such an option would be.
I have no problem with people asking for additional settings and I have no problem with people arguing against them. But pretending like there is no cost or a trivial cost to adding a setting is nothing more that wishcasting that you can get what you want without consequence. Here's the producer/designer/director of Fallout 1, Fallout 2, and Outerworlds, Tim Cain, who briefly mentions it in a discussion about game design choices. The section starts at 3:15 and the video should start there. But the whole video is worth watching because it is a perfect encapsulation of this forum at times and several of the recent threads (jars, rage, playstyles, etc.).