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• • Warhammer Online : Age of Reckoning: Jacobs on GOA, Forums and Accountability

  • Originally posted by Moroth
    

    No game company is obligated to provid a forum.  There are other forums available that get monitored and in-game tools to provide feedback.  Most forums contain excessive abusive feedback that gets repeated thousands of times.  If you're unhappy with the game you can express your opinion to them directly, the fact that they're not giving you a tool to share it with the rest of the world is fine.

     

    Perhaps when the MMO community matures a little and learns some manners in regards to providing constructive posts and not polls on who's leaving at the end of the month they'll provide official forums.  Till then I can't blame em.

     

    The fact that there are so many posts here saying it's a cop-out to not give you a place to abuse them proves this point.  Otherwise why would it be considered a cop-out?

     

    This response is such a joke. We aren't dissatisfied with not having an area to "abuse," we're dissatisfied with not having an "official" area to discuss this game we love with the official development team or PR heads.

    There is a lot of garbage on the official WoW forums. But guess what? There's infinitely more positive and productive posts that outweigh the negative ones. Not only that, but there's tons of information about the game centralized into one forum. I don't want to have to shoot to two or three different fan sites for an MMO just to find discussion on my specific class/race selection. The companies who developed and produced the game should to provide the necessary hubs to discuss their creation. Not having that because they fear having "their feelings hurt by some forum trolls" is a complete cop-out. No way around it.

  • Posted: 9/23/08 12:26 AM
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• • Warhammer Online : Age of Reckoning: Jacobs on GOA, Forums and Accountability

  • Originally posted by jakin
    

    My opinion:  It's a cop-out.

    MMOs will always have some variety of out of game community.  If a company doesn't provide an official spot for that community to gather it will gather somewhere else on someone else's dime.

    All Mythic is doing in this case is shunting the responsibility for community management off themselves and onto other sites (WHA, this one, TTH, etc). 

    I appreciate the fact that no one likes to have abuse hurled at them, I also appreciate the fact that many MMO players of this day and age feel overly entitled to door say whatever they like because "they pay their money".  None of these things abrogate the responsibility (IMO) to provide an official area for the community that will form anyway.

    Now when Mythic has a customer-relations problem it will be the third-party sites that take the brunt of the flames, threats, disappointment, etc. (witness the GOA stuff - it produced another whole forum here)  It's poor form in my view to offload problems you cause (and the known consequences) onto someone else entirely.

    Do I think it will kill WAR to not have forums - no, of course not.  I do however disagree with the concept and believe that fundamentally it's taking the easy way out.

     

    Couldn't have said it better myself.
    
    I love Warhammer and I loved DAoC but their lack of official forums has always been a cop-out.

  • Posted: 9/22/08 9:04 PM
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• • what time does SE Head start start?

  • Wow this thread hurts my head.

    People with their inability to comprehend simple facts. Speculation is a waste of time and bandwidth. Unless a time/date/whatever is posted officially on the website or herald this evening, let this thread die. Thanks.

    
    Until then, the only time we have been officially given, is 7am EST.
    
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  • Posted: 9/15/08 11:11 PM
    WAR (Warhammer Online)
• • what time does SE Head start start?

  • Originally posted by Plaidpants
    

    Yes, but how long has that been there? Did they just edit and add the time in? Because that SE preoder advertisement on the front page has been there a long time now.

     

    Are you people really this stupid?

    It doesn't matter how long it's been there.

    Until we hear or read otherwise on the herald/website I don't see any reason why this will change. So speculation is pointless.

  • Posted: 9/15/08 11:01 PM
    WAR (Warhammer Online)
• • Sick Call

  • Originally posted by xcalibur
    

    Originally posted by Tachikoma00
    

    This is the huge downside of capitalism and what it does to people. You're condemned for wanting to take some personal time to enjoy something major like a huge game release, or a friends wedding, or anything for that matter. Heaven forbid you not want to be a slave to the work place your entire life.

    Life is more than "working."

    Fuck corrupt societies.

     

    Be gone, ye commie!

     

    Nothing is perfect :)
    Capitalism has just as many flaws as communism. People just choose what they want to see. This society would've already fallen had we not socialized, school, police, fire dept, etc

    I believe it takes a good mixture of both to correctly function :D

  • Posted: 9/15/08 10:55 PM
    WAR (Warhammer Online)