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Nothing, of course. What they are saying in a round about way is that the removal of something that doesn't matter to them (in this case full screen play mode) means it shouldn't matter to you either. Although it is your preferred method of play, they don't regard it as a big deal because they don't use it.
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Thank you for putting words into my mouth, but no, you're wrong. I didn't say it shouldn't matter to anybody else because it doesn't matter to me, I said that if it is for the benefit of advancing the game and its progress, then losing that feature is really a small price to pay. I think more than anything people get stuck in playing a certain way, and are uncomfortable with stepping outside their comfort zone to realize that there is another way they *could* play, and might be totally happy with that way ultimately, though it might take some getting used to. I understand people are saying that we shouldn't have to sacrifice full screen mode for the benefit of progress, but the fact is that according to the devs, we do. I'm one to pick my battles, and if I was gonna fight over something being added or taken away, it would be something that had a much more significant impact on overall gameplay than fullscreen vs. windowed mode.
You might ask, well what if the shoe was on the other foot and it was windowed mode being taken away instead of full-screen mode, would I still be as OK with seeing it go, so I'll go ahead and answer the question before somebody asks it. Since that is my preferred way of playing, I might be mildly irritated, or a little apprehensive, that I'd no longer be able to play this way, but I certainly wouldn't dismiss playing in full-screen mode as totally unworkable until I'd given it a very fair shot, which since the full screen mode hasn't been removed yet, there hasn't been enough time for people to have given it that significant chance. If I found it didn't work for me, I still wouldn't pitch a fit and either close or threaten to close my account(s) over it, I'd find out if there was any way to get beyond whatever problems I had with it, and then if there proved not to be, I'd have to leave the game, but would do so without a dramatic exit, knowing a truly dug in and tried everything I could before I gave it up.
Just my two simoleans of course, but its this flair for the dramatic that I'm growing weary of as much as it is the specific things people are griping about. Let's face it, there are certain players that you can almost count on to have 'something' negative to say about every update or piece of news we are given, with the exception of very few things, and griping about every little change as it happens is only going to serve to make people give less weight to your complaints, even though some of them might be legitimate, sort of like The Little Boy Who Cried Wolf, whereas if you only complain when there is truly something worth complaining about, people will thing "Gee, if THEY are complaining then you KNOW something is seriously out of whack". People have to decide for themselves which category they want others to see them in. For me, its the latter.
