A few random thoughts on the whole fanboys vs whiners thing:
I always tend towards the fanboy camp - not specifically on TW but other games too; you always get the same arguments on game forums in my experience. Recently I've been wondering why I always tend to take that position.
I think it boils down to working in a customer facing environment. I'm always polite to people I buy things from, because I know what it's like to be them. If something goes wrong, I will work out what I consider a reasonable resolution and then insist on it politely. If I don't get it I'll either withdraw my future custom or take matters further depending on what my rights are and how much money is involved.
I guess I take that on to computer games. If there's a bug then if I can be bothered I'll point it out, or agree with others who have pointed it out. But I'm not going to flame the developers because I seriously doubt it's going to do any good.
If that has any effect at all it will just be to annoy someone, and I don't have any desire to annoy someone for its own sake over a computer game that cost me 30 quid.
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