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[MechWarrior5081902]

I have posted a few times on the reddit OutreachHPG, and its nothing but slamming, insults, flaming, down voting, etc. .

I am new to reddit, and new to MWO, but a long time StarTrek Online player, and the reddit for STO is always nice and helpful.

What is up with this?

[Mystere]

Your first mistake was wading in that cesspit of humanity.

[DivineEvil]

Because that's what Reddit is. It exists solely for that purpose.

[Metus regem]

Primal Vengeance, on 24 March 2016 - 08:03 AM, said:

I have posted a few times on the reddit OutreachHPG, and its nothing but slamming, insults, flaming, down voting, etc. .

I am new to reddit, and new to MWO, but a long time StarTrek Online player, and the reddit for STO is always nice and helpful.

What is up with this?

MWO has a long and nasty history between the staff and community, and sadly you are on the receiving end of it.

MWO is a FPS version of a Table Top game called Battle Tech, but unlike the table top version, MWO has deviated from the source material in an attempt to create an E-sport game, that due to mechanics may be less then well received as such. This attempt has infuriated many of the founding members of this product, some even going as far to say that this is not the product that they were sold, but rather Call of Duty with mechs.

In an attempt to clear the boards of some of the more vocal members against this product, there were mass bans, even a member of the staff publicly insulting the player base of MWO, leaving mean to have hurt feelings and a lot of anger towards MWO and staff, this fury can sometimes be directed at new members to MWO, sadly.

[Thunderbird Anthares]

You mean nasty as exactly these forums, except with slightly more open exchanges?

In many ways, reddit usually reflects community opinions better than official forums due to less censorship - and by far not only with MWO.

The downvoting however is a constant and real problem on reddit - nobody ever uses the function correctly.

[Little Details]

I rarely see any nastiness at OutreachHPG. You must have said something really dumb.

[Rocket2Uranus]

Not just reddit... in general internet is full of tiny little angry kids who have horrible lives who want to take it out safely onto others on the net.

Edited by Rocket2Uranus, 24 March 2016 - 08:35 AM.

[MechWarrior5081902]

I said something about the Archers being substandard, and about 5 people went on a rant about "pay to win" this, "pay to win" that, etc.

This is not a pay to win game, everything you can buy with $$$ you can eventually buy with in game currency, you just have to have a little patience.

[Quicksilver Aberration]

Primal Vengeance, on 24 March 2016 - 08:37 AM, said:

I said something about the Archers being substandard, and about 5 people went on a rant about "pay to win" this, "pay to win" that, etc.

So because a few dumb people on reddit said it was, you take that as the entirety of Outreach reddit? Where most comp players roam, where most said it was disappointing?

[Thunderbird Anthares]

Fun fact: reddit is usually less toxic as the exchanges are open, instead of dripping with poison in the wordplay - including better self-regulation because of that... moderated forums people use as 'what I can get away with' instead of thinking about their posts more

Another fun fact: thats how people are, everywhere, its in our nature... so thinking before posting should be everyones rule :-)

[TKSax]

Quicksilver Kalasa, on 24 March 2016 - 08:39 AM, said:

So because a few dumb people on reddit said it was, you take that as the entirety of Outreach reddit? Where most comp players roam, where most said it was disappointing?

Yea I would like to see a link because I don't remember anything of the such... but I do miss a lot of stuff on reddit,

[MechWarrior5081902]

Quicksilver Kalasa, on 24 March 2016 - 08:39 AM, said:

So because a few dumb people on reddit said it was, you take that as the entirety of Outreach reddit? Where most comp players roam, where most said it was disappointing?

Not just this post, many other posts on various topics.

[Jman5]

Mystere, on 24 March 2016 - 08:05 AM, said:

Your first mistake was wading in that cesspit of humanity.

If reddit's a cesspit, this place is a radioactive dumping ground.

[TKSax]

Jman5, on 24 March 2016 - 08:54 AM, said:

If reddit's a cesspit, this place is a radioactive dumping ground.

Agreed, I find reddit much better place to actually discuss the game then here.

Edited by TKSax, 24 March 2016 - 08:59 AM.

[Jman5]

TKSax, on 24 March 2016 - 08:58 AM, said:

Agreed, I find reddit much better place to actually discuss the game then here.

Yup. The main culprit has to do with the how the two work. On reddit, troll and otherwise terrible posts are downvoted and filtered out of the front page. On forums troll and other types of sh*tposts are constantly bumped up to the front page because they get lots of replies. For example, this thread.

[Mystere]

Jman5, on 24 March 2016 - 08:54 AM, said:

If reddit's a cesspit, this place is a radioactive dumping ground.

Radiation I can deal with. Besides, I never claimed this place was ***** and span.

(Really PGI? Damn your stupid filter! )

Edited by Mystere, 24 March 2016 - 09:06 AM.

[Tarogato]

You're Trancer?

I think it's because "DOA" is the theme of the forums, and Outreach looks down on the forums as uncouth and uneducated/noobish/scrubby. So when somebody posts an Outreach topic about a new mech being disappointingly weak and driving them away from pre-ordering other mechs, they're all thinking "Well, I could have told you that before you even pre-ordered it. What did you expect, mechs aren't worth the money if they aren't near the top of the food chain at release?"

In general, I find reddit a much better userbase than the forums, tbh. The forums have a significantly higher proportion of irrational thinkers.

Edited by Tarogato, 24 March 2016 - 09:42 AM.

[Novakaine]

Mystere, on 24 March 2016 - 09:04 AM, said:

Radiation I can deal with. Besides, I never claimed this place was ***** and span.

(Really PGI? Damn your stupid filter! )

Canadians?

[CDLord HHGD]

Mystere, on 24 March 2016 - 08:05 AM, said:

Your first mistake was wading in that cesspit of humanity.

So much this....

[Ghogiel]

Reddit is better than the forums in one way, the whining there is usually more relevent to **** that matters. But yeah it's mostly amusement and shitposting.