198 replies to this topic

[FuzzyLog1c]

You know what? After spending $100+ and trying to provide constructive input, I'm done. See you all in a different game.

//just hit the uninstall button

[3rdworld]

jakucha, on 23 April 2013 - 01:29 PM, said:

You type that as if it's a bad thing.

Is burying your head in the sand a sound practice?

Most complaints are not unfounded.

[River Walker]

benth, on 23 April 2013 - 01:06 PM, said:

Remember, polls don't matter.

This was done with purpose. They don't want to have a community anymore. Too many displeased customers telling others why they are upset.

PGI it was the Core players that put up the 5 million to build this game.
Now that you got their cash you telling them all to FICKOFF if you don't like it,Oh i can see the tweets now and the forum boads.
PGI you just steep in it up to your eyeballs.

Edited by River Walker, 23 April 2013 - 01:37 PM.

[benth]

jakucha, on 23 April 2013 - 01:29 PM, said:

You type that as if it's a bad thing.

When the company is almost entirely unresponsive unless there are huge storms of anger on the forum, it is a bad thing.

[Lefty Lucy]

My only problem with the lack of general discussion is that there's no place to put posts that are full of good analysis.

[Rekoro]

Looks like they arange things to get bought by EA Games ^^

[Multitallented]

I've always had a huge problem with the forum organization here. This pretty much takes the cake.

[Roadbeer]

Oh Noes!

Now your self-serving, , narcissistic, QQ, PGI ATE MY BABY threads will have to be created where they belong...

http://mwomercs.com/...ic-discussions/

[PropagandaWar]

Rename it Community Splat Forum with PGI enter at your own risk.

[aniviron]

jakucha, on 23 April 2013 - 01:29 PM, said:

You type that as if it's a bad thing.

The loss of rage isn't the bad thing in and of itself (though every now and then the community's upset is actually warranted) but rather that they are throwing out the baby with the bathwater- to get rid of the rage, they are also getting rid of the only useful forum.

All of the other specialized subforums get almost no traffic. This isn't because nobody cares about the things that were posted in there, but rather because it's a huge hassle to have to find threads you are interested in scattered about ten forums. The results of this change will not be to have the same thread volume and quality, just divided among six new forums; the results will be to cull most of the posts altogether.

[Loler skates]

Roadbeer, on 23 April 2013 - 01:56 PM, said:

Oh Noes!

Now your self-serving, , narcissistic, QQ, PGI ATE MY BABY threads will have to be created where they belong...

http://mwomercs.com/...ic-discussions/

Well i certainly won't be spending the time to navigate through all the sub forums to find threads worth posting in. Cluttering the forum with large numbers of sub-forums increases the effort in finding interesting topics hugely.

but well you are roadbeer, rose tinted glasses doesn't even begin to describe your bias in all honesty :|

[Rakashan]

I'd love to ask why general chat was closed but there's no place to put the topic anymore.

For that matter, there was more than one interesting discussion which was jettisoned in the clean-up.

Not a fan of this choice.

[jozkhan]

it feels like censorship to be honest, but worse its now totally confusing forums and thats no good at all for new players.

I cant think of another forum for a game or any subject that has removed its own general discussion section

weird

is there an unofficial MWO forum?

Edited by jozkhan, 23 April 2013 - 02:03 PM.

[River Walker]

Rekoro, on 23 April 2013 - 01:50 PM, said:

Looks like they arange things to get bought by EA Games ^^

You know what for some resin to me that seem something that could happen.
PGI is dumping its core user bases ,after all that's how EA games works.
it would seem that's the MO when EA gets its hands on game.

[RG Notch]

Good for who? For PGI it's great no more centralized place for new players to see how angry the forums are. For players, pretty lousy, no real centralized place for discussion. It's like how prisons are designed, no places for large groups to congregate and possibly cause trouble. Sad that PGI has admitted it can't provide a decent place for discussion because their sloppy work generates too much rage.

[Roadbeer]

Which core user base is being dumped?

I'm still playing, and in the end, that's all that matters.

[Panzerman03]

Yeah, this is pretty terrible. I definitely can't be bothered to click through half a dozen subforums to find a worthwhile discussion. This place was already awkwardly structured, but now it's pretty much the worst official game forum I've ever seen.

[Atheus]

aniviron, on 23 April 2013 - 01:58 PM, said:

The loss of rage isn't the bad thing in and of itself (though every now and then the community's upset is actually warranted) but rather that they are throwing out the baby with the bathwater- to get rid of the rage, they are also getting rid of the only useful forum.

All of the other specialized subforums get almost no traffic. This isn't because nobody cares about the things that were posted in there, but rather because it's a huge hassle to have to find threads you are interested in scattered about ten forums. The results of this change will not be to have the same thread volume and quality, just divided among six new forums; the results will be to cull most of the posts altogether.

I have to admit it's working, so far. I'm very annoyed by the change (especially since I was in the middle of posting in a discussion in general when the whole general section was deprecated). However, I just can't find the energy to invest more than a few sentences in protest. I guess these guys don't like the kind of discussions that take place about their game, but apparently the solution is for them is to just try to herd the discussion into tidy little containers they can deal with. Whatevs, PGI.

[jakucha]

3rdworld, on 23 April 2013 - 01:31 PM, said:

Is burying your head in the sand a sound practice?

Most complaints are not unfounded.

Raging is never useful and just makes you look like a silly person. You claiming that's me burying my head under the sand doesn't change that. Write something useful instead of letting your emotions essentially write nothing.

As for the forum sections, it just means it'll be less of a swamp of everything and you know where to look if you want to discuss something specific. Off-topic forums are still here, it's pretty much what general discussion already was.

Edited by jakucha, 23 April 2013 - 02:08 PM.

[3rdworld]

Roadbeer, on 23 April 2013 - 02:02 PM, said:

Which core user base is being dumped?

I'm still playing, and in the end, that's all that matters.

For the introspective moron with no business sense, I would suspect nothing else.

jakucha, on 23 April 2013 - 02:05 PM, said:

Raging is never useful and just makes you look like a silly person. You claiming that's me burying my head under the sand doesn't change that.

They are so quick to respond to good discussion and topics.

You have 1k posts but have not noticed they only respond to something when the entire forum fills with rage?

I mean they even said as much in one of the ATDs, that they don't usually worry about something until the forums trend to the same thing.

Edited by 3rdworld, 23 April 2013 - 02:08 PM.