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So ANET can't afford a forum? Why?
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nope. (wait for it). my wife does my irony for me.
i would much rather yawn than conform.
Considering forums are about discussion, the only way not to conform would be to be a dick and troll
Those 'non-conformists' should be banned
I wish my wife would do my irony for me.
i find in most cases, the words "dick" and "troll" is often applied to someone who simply refuses to believe as you do and tow the party line in regard to spreading only positive vibes, man.
while i don't see why anet don't have an official forum, i don't much care if they do or don't. i find much of what's on an official forum is usually pro-rubbish or raider-whining. happy to do without either.
for me, i keep coming back here.
not sure why, but it feels more juicy than some. like it's not the opinions getting deleted.
now THAT would be irony...
Yeah, well, when she does your irony, you'd better make sure she doesn't pull on this loose thread when she sees it.
I hope they don't have an official forum. DAOC didn't have official forums and the server communities were tight knit. They had feedback forms you could fill out from their website that were compiled and read at their meetings. They often posted responses on their websites to questions and concerns.
In todays market, all forums are is a place for trolls and fanbois to fight. I don't care for them and I don't think the forums are worth the cost.
People who aren't open to discussion use those terms against legitimate concerns
But GW2guru doesn't. I'm referring to blatant trolling. Not 'i feel that NCSoft are overcharging europeans' (which is perfectly true), but 'LoL! This game sucks!' (thread contents: 'that is all').
There are a lot of people who abuse terms all the time, and they're essentially useless to debates. Unfortunately, that's the internet for you.
BTW, I tried to continue with the jokes, but I think it just came undone.
It is still no reason for why they would be deleted rather than just locked or moved to a "trashbin" section of the forum.
The problem with deletion as practice is that it is too easily abused. Too easy to step over the edge, and if you do, who will investigate you and see what thread you deleted "wrongly"? Noone, I am afraid. That's why that is a bad system.
I think it's rather ridiculous for a AAA MMO not to have an official forum of some type. I generally visit an official forum when I need some type of help with a quest, having issues logging in, or to read discussions on how best to play my class when the game is down for maintenance.
Yes, official forums are full of hate/whining threads, but they also have some very helpful threads. I don't want to have to visit a third party site to get help with whatever issue I'm having in-game (logging-in or what have you). Hell, even Sims 3 has an official forum.
If you need help, you've got the official wiki, you've got every fan site out there, and you could actually talk to someone in the game and ask for help.
An 'official' communications forum is not really necessary. Not when we already have all the means to communicating with Anet, and Anet with us. For those saying it's not official, I would consider any post by a dev or cm from Anet official, regardless of the site.
As for official news, we already have www.guildwars2.com and www.arena.net/blog. We've also got the wiki, in which the player base can update with all the information about the game. We've got facebook, twitter, and youtube. They might do a support forum, such as the one for GW1. However, there's really no point when we have the all the tools already in place.
For those trying to use "well x game has a forum, so GW2 should", great for x game. GW2 is not x game, and what works for that game may not work for GW2, and vice versa.
But guys, you're telling me that you'd rather go to some official website directly from the developers than a poorly managed fansite with over-zealous admins?
Get with the program!
/sarcasm off
I mainly like them to try and build a community and get to know my fellow players both on my server and others.
Not a huge deal to me but I do find it disappointing. Although I must admit I don't find it at all surprising.
1. For god's sake mmo gamers, enough with the analogies. They're unnecessary and your comparisons are terrible, dissimilar, and illogical.
2. To posters feeling the need to state how f2p really isn't f2p: Players understand the concept. You aren't privy to some secret the rest are missing. You're embarrassing yourself.
3. Yes, Cpt. Obvious, we're not industry experts. Now run along and let the big people use the forums for their purpose.
Tell that to Dark age of Camelot still going 10 years later, may not be at its former glory but its still goingand still the best pvp game of all time.
It's a good move. not much else to say. if ToR would have waited until release to open the forums to the public we would have had a much better game I think.
Same for SWG and Wow
It wouldn't have changed a thing with those games. Especially with TOR. They made it rather clear they weren't paying attention to those forums. If they would have they could have avoided some of the very issues they're looking to fix now. Especially in relation to PvP.
1. For god's sake mmo gamers, enough with the analogies. They're unnecessary and your comparisons are terrible, dissimilar, and illogical.
2. To posters feeling the need to state how f2p really isn't f2p: Players understand the concept. You aren't privy to some secret the rest are missing. You're embarrassing yourself.
3. Yes, Cpt. Obvious, we're not industry experts. Now run along and let the big people use the forums for their purpose.
I don't mind. Been playing MMOs for the last 10 years and I've never found the need for them. Probably better anyway, Anet might actually read all the whiny posts.
Well since you asked what I think then I think you are a worthless troll just trying to cause conflict where none is.
Except you can't just discuss 'anything'. The staff there determine what threads/topics are 'worthy' of discussion and close/delete anything else.
I would rather chew broken galss than post at GW2Guru. Heck, I would rather post at the Ten Ton Hammer GW2 forums and they only have like 3 people there.
it wont be developers running that forum. it will be some sheepable who have to say the same responses to people who are angry at guild wars 2 - and lots of people with hate this game will all their might.
at a best case scenario official forums will concentrate the hate to make you dislike arenanet a lot more. because lots of people will feel ignored, many people will hate their ncsoft representatives and because people in general are self important idiots who will take things out of content.
the best way to feed the trolls, is not to make a breeding ground. people will get their knowledge/help through support forums, wiki, twitter, facebook, fanpages, the blog and so on.
lots of fan websites out there that are better run than what an official bunch who have the managers and confidentiality agreements breathing down their neck.
kill 10 rats is really good for example: http://www.killtenrats.com/
Most people don't know how to post in the right forums. Your obviously not correct as i've been on guru for a long time, and i've done lots of threads giving feedback.
most people don't search before they post, or they make thread that is out-discussed with a previous thread closure, or they don't post in the right forums.
it's always the same thing when people get banned / offended over how they were treated by some guy on a forum. this is EXACTLY the same thing for people on official forums. and when they post it on other forums how unfairly they have been treated they always give half the story, playing the victim. there is always the other side to it.
Guru has a very annoying way to run their website, and many of their users are not nice to dsicuss with. so just go to another fansite.
At 1r i was like the OP, wtf no offi forum? But GW2guru isn't as bad as people say, its well managed, and discussion are good there, they are not much trolling and they are pretty interesting.
If ANET are intelligent enough to not make a forum, i'll buy every game they do in the next 20 years!
And people don't go on a forum to say what they do not like, they go on a forum to complain that they didn't get what they wanted in a game. So it's wait for it.... wait for it... Useless to have a forum!