SlXSlXSlX, on 04 January 2013 - 02:34 PM, said:
@ agent: Presuming most posts are not just alt accnts.... each forum post represents a real person, a potential customer, and if they can bring their friends, a tool for recruitment. I hope PGI is less apt to completely disregard these forums, than yourself.
It's not that I disregard these forums, it's that I disregard the hysterical and semi-hysterical screaming about issues. I blow off the hyperbole, exaggeration, threats, and demands. There are legitimate issues to be addressed, and in fact many things we kinda agree on, but you have to admit putting a lot of what is written here side by side with a transcript of a toddlers tantrum you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference other than perhaps the words that are used.
Then you get to the arguments which often proceed beyond the point of usefulness and descend into what could be mistaken for a grade school disagreement:
"Uh-huh"
"Nuh-Uh"
"Uh -huh and your stupid"
"Nuh-Uh you're stupid"
"Uh-huh and i'm right because I said so and I'm going home Lalalalalala"
So what i'm getting at is the amount of ego, trolling for fun, counter trolling, and just flat nerd rage based histrionics makes a lot of the forum users look like children a lot of the time, and only a very few are not guilty of this (myself not included) at least some of the time. This behavior makes it difficult to glean the kernel of the actual issue, clean the crap away and have a constructive conversation.
That's what I trust PGI to do, they also have far more information than we do, so we kinda have to put a little faith in them. If you aren't willing to put at least little faith in them the only sane logical thing to do is to get a refund and walk away because if you don't think they will do the right thing then all the hollering isn't going to change that.
And you are right most of these voices are individuals, in fact very active individuals, in the game and can have an influence on the growth of this game via positive or negative word of mouth. However much of the rage on forums IS just sound and fury as most of us understand (on some level) that even on the internet throwing tantrums doesn't actually get you what you want we just do it to vent and feel better while knowing it isn't the most constructive thing. The people that Don't know or internalize that simple fact... well i can honestly say I feel we are better off without them.
In short, there are good points on the forum underneath the rage on the forum, pgi would do well to monitor them, we need to trust pgi to assess and change things based on the big picture we cannot see, and yelling at each other really doesn't change anything.
Edited by Agent of Change, 04 January 2013 - 04:58 PM.
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