It's vital to learn to see past emotion when receiving statements from critics. I have heard lots of comments about my projects over the years and I have notic

It's vital to learn to see past emotion when receiving statements from critics. I have heard lots of comments about my projects over the years and I have noticed some patterns: - Negative feedback is usually all you get. You have to motivate yourself by imagining that most people are pretty happy based on downloads/client-count/whatever. - People aren't good at communicating when they're frustrated but they usually turn into nice people once you've fixed the problem. Most people just have a job to do and a deadline to meet. Pay attention to what they say is wrong, and not their mood. - Strangely, people will spend great amounts of time writing comments on random web sites or review pages about issues that they will never even E-mail you about, no matter how easy you make it for them to contact you. Therefore, if you really want to get some realistic critiques of your work, you may have to scour the web for them. I look at it this way: real, honest feedback is rare and vital to really understand what you may have overlooked. Even if you can't possibly contact the Random Web Commenter, find and fix their issues and you'll end up with a better product.