AGS being AGS. Their main thing seems to be doing things their way. Weird decision though.
And no it has nothing to do with a declining population meaning more toxicity. Those forums have been toxic and under-moderated always. It was that way when they were at their peak or otherwise.
It always amazed me how tolerant they were about targetted, vile, insults directed at individual staff members. Strong believers in fReE sPeEcH I guess.
I was perma banned from the official forums within a week of being there. Got a ban on their Steam forum, but appealed to a Valve moderator, not an AGS one, and was reinstated. Ban on both forums was one of the lead AGS mods, can't remember his username now, that would ban anyone who dared disagree with him. He disappeared from Steam and then eventually the official not long after, guess he finally had enough complaints. That's also when the devs disappeared completely from the Steam forums.
Sounds like every telegram crypto chatroom. Good to know the developers of amazon are forcing people to stay positive and only type positive things into the internet as they scam people out of money.
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It's a stupid move and just goes to show how much they don't give a shite about the players.
Not to mention their discord wants to verify you via your cell phone number..... lol
What don't you guys have phones!
I am thinking about buying a burner phone for these sorts of sign ups if this is the future of things
Most require a real number so you’d have to keep your line active.
What? It's not like how they depict it on TV where the hero (or villain) goes into a seedy convenience store to buy a phone off the rack to stay anonymous?
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Web forums are sadly dinosaurs left over from the internet's Mesozoic era and will someday soon go the way of Usnet and dial up BBS's. I'd be slightly upset if I'd ever set foot into their forums in the fIrst place, but never did as I can only imagine the shit soaked out of control dumpster fire the place must be. To both AGS's forums and their poxy game all I can say is ...
Web forums are sadly dinosaurs left over from the internet's Mesozoic era and will someday soon go the way of Usnet and dial up BBS's. I'd be slightly upset if I'd ever set foot into their forums in the fIrst place, but never did as I can only imagine the shit soaked out of control dumpster fire the place must be. To both AGS's forums and their poxy game all I can say is ...
I dont really see forums going away. Lost Ark and New World have a decent sized population (compared to most others not in the 'big 10' or whtever we're at now in the mmorpg sphere), but most of the 'top' mmorpgs still have proper forums. Even Lost Ark and New World aren't really 'losing' forums, AGS is honestly just being cheap and not hosting their own anymore since steam still has forums for both games.
Obvious to me they think the forums are way more negative than Discord. I doubt discord will get even close to the same amount of traffic that the forums get.
Forums are a double edge sword, if the game is good, forums can hype it big time, if its bad, it can be super toxic.
This is what it looks like when a game is in decline.
i think you might be wrong here. discord is where it's a in this day.
This move by AGS screams "we're chasing the customers!!!".
Rather than building something positive and welcoming that will attract players, they're off chasing the players, trying to figure out what's cool and then providing it. Which is exactly how I feel they designed and built their game.
Pretty hard to be a market leader if you're always chasing the crowd.
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Obvious to me they think the forums are way more negative than Discord. I doubt discord will get even close to the same amount of traffic that the forums get.
Forums are a double edge sword, if the game is good, forums can hype it big time, if its bad, it can be super toxic.
This is what it looks like when a game is in decline.
i think you might be wrong here. discord is where it's a in this day.
Only for crypto bros mostly...and fading games I guess.
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It's a stupid move and just goes to show how much they don't give a shite about the players.
Not to mention their discord wants to verify you via your cell phone number..... lol
What don't you guys have phones!
Yeah thats a pretty universal problem on the internet.
People dont get that not everyone has a cellphone. I simply dont need one. So why would I get one AND also give potential spammers my number, too ? Double dumb move.
can't stand discord, another game i used to play did this too. I bailed on nw early on to give it time to mature, with this change it is unlikely i will even consider returning. I spend a lot of time in forums for the games i play, learning things, sharing info etc. To me it is a major part of the experience.
I honestly didn't realize New World had forums. Personally I avoid forums. The only purpose they seem to serve is to educate you on how you're not having fun in the game you're playing, and how underpowered your build is and why that other build needs a nerf. I'd rather just continue on in blissful ignorance.
AGS being AGS. Their main thing seems to be doing things their way. Weird decision though.
And no it has nothing to do with a declining population meaning more toxicity. Those forums have been toxic and under-moderated always. It was that way when they were at their peak or otherwise.
It always amazed me how tolerant they were about targetted, vile, insults directed at individual staff members. Strong believers in fReE sPeEcH I guess.
I was perma banned from the official forums within a week of being there. Got a ban on their Steam forum, but appealed to a Valve moderator, not an AGS one, and was reinstated. Ban on both forums was one of the lead AGS mods, can't remember his username now, that would ban anyone who dared disagree with him. He disappeared from Steam and then eventually the official not long after, guess he finally had enough complaints. That's also when the devs disappeared completely from the Steam forums.
That's quite an accomplishment considering all the stuff I've seen there over the years since that first preview in 2020 that stays up and unedited for months. You must have really pissed someone off.
It's extremely lax moderation.
If you want to see the opposite just spend a few days in the ESO forums with a horde of mods pouring over every single thread removing words, phrases, or whole posts and locking threads.
Reminded me of why I rarely visited company sponsored web sites or social media sites, usually are just over moderated echo chambers or full of player gatekeepers who yell at everyone to first search for a topic or do their research rather than create a new thread.
Like it's a huge burden for them to just ignore a thread topic that might have been covered previously.
YOu remember Guild Wars2 Alliance and that forum before Anet announced they were going to have an official forum? Wow that was a toxic environment.. I remember when the drama from the Anet announcement spread over here on this forum and had some of their mods sharing personal information just to try to discredit some of the people that didnt like their fan forum.
Al Capone mod was one of the worst and they had to ban him/her when the announcement happened because so many people were celebrating. lol
Warhammer Alliance was about close to as bad as Guild Wars 2 Alliance was.....
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Oh well, saves me the trouble of interacting with AGS at all. Thankfully, mmorpg.com still knows what forums are for.
Someone who is registered as being a flex offender is a person who feels the need to flex about everything they say.
Always be the guy that paints the house in the dark.
Lucidity can be forged with enough liquidity and pharmed for decades with enough compound interest that a reachable profit would never end.
Darn.
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A few games I have played abandoned in game chat for Discord.....and then the players didnt talk there either.....
I dont really see forums going away. Lost Ark and New World have a decent sized population (compared to most others not in the 'big 10' or whtever we're at now in the mmorpg sphere), but most of the 'top' mmorpgs still have proper forums. Even Lost Ark and New World aren't really 'losing' forums, AGS is honestly just being cheap and not hosting their own anymore since steam still has forums for both games.
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Try a MUD today at http://www.mudconnect.com/Al Capone mod was one of the worst and they had to ban him/her when the announcement happened because so many people were celebrating. lol
Warhammer Alliance was about close to as bad as Guild Wars 2 Alliance was.....
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