Community Relations Archive
Thread: Get Rid of the Boards: A New Way of Thinking about Community Feedback [Repost]
Dear SOE,
I'm quitting. I'm quitting your boards and playing your game instead. I'm sick of wading through piles of useless, stupid, emotionally stulted playerpoststo try and glean a few gems of information about your game. I'm done. I'm not even sure I'm ever going to beta test any of your stuff again and if I do, I'm not posting bugs or issues on your threads! I'll do it via /bug and through your in-game questionairres.
Why? Because when I'm on the boards and I read the intense negativity I,for just a brief moment,almost feel the anger as if it were my own. Yeah! I might say indignantly. Why are they doing that! That's not right! OMG OMG OMG OMG this is teh sux0r!
Then I wake the hell up, realize its a friggin game, and go about my friggin day. I manage an IT Helpdesk. I don't need any additional exposure to people with low emotional intelligence.
And if you go and change the game I love so much? Well I'll play the new game. And if I don't like the new game? I'll tell you so via /bug or via in-game questionairres. And if you don't listen? Well you and I both know who your competitors are. And they're strong. Real strong. There will be no discussion. No emotion except a little nostalgia. Simple transferrage...
Sorry if you think I'm abandoning your "process", SOE. But, you see, the process is broken. I look forward to the day when a game HAS NO BOARDS AT ALL.
- All game system development and discussion takes place in an in-gamecommunity system so that disaffected, account cancelling*edit* hold no sway.
- An in-game system means that players are assured that developers are in-game, right along side them.
- This system would be "separated" from the actual game to some extent to preserver immersion, but players could easily pull up a special chat box or window that would allow them to post ideas and discuss things critically within the game client.
- Bored cubicle-dwellers such as myself would have a read-only, internet accessible 'forum' where they can see the in-game discussions at any time.
And to you bored-cubicle dwellers might I suggest my method of getting an SWG fix in the middle of the day: open up a blog somewhere and post your thoughts there. Bringthose thoughtsin-game after they are organized and concise!
See you allin Moenia.
Mike
Amateur Troll, Proffesional Opinion-maker, Overly-Long-Post Champion, Now Retired
I usually get depressed on the boards. Sometimes I laugh, because of people threatening to quit the game. They should stick to playing, and having fun...