lee corwood
Knights Of Ender
Public Disorder.
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Posted - 2013.12.25 06:41:00 -
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As a somewhat newer person to the forum, I can see how some people get torn down into spitting rage at people. In one way, the 8 billion posts on the same thing make me kind of mental. There is a search feature for a reason, but it makes me even angrier as its mostly a cry for attention. Anyone new will freely admit they are new and when pointed in the right direction, often follow the trail and quietly disappear. For the rest, their way of existing in this world is to whine as much as possible in as many different threads to do nothing else but create a name for themselves among the community:
"I know there is a post already, but..."
STOP THIS.
And, it's always almost in a negative light. Negative attention is attention and for most people, its the quickest way to get attention.
Even for those who are level headed and expressing good and welcome feedback, you start to notice repeat names. There is nothing in this game that drives players to this forum. Sure, there are a good number of us, but you have to admit the names you see repeatedly make this seem a very small world. Dust on the PS3 is so isolated and disconnected from anything that would drive a user to the forum. No documentation in the 'welcome new player', no direction (i'm assuming based on what it's pumping out) from the academy and even on these forums, 'join this chat to learn', taking people directly out of the forums and back into the isolated game.
Hell, I don't even think the forum IS the place for the community. Transfer of knowledge, training up newer players, leveling up skills, learning to strafe, ideally shouldn't be done by providing a user with walls and walls of text. I feel like half the good training guides (which don't get me wrong, I love them) are a complete turnoff. As a new user, would you really want a 'welcome to the game, here's your manual) feeling? Especially when you're going to be killed repeatedly in a pathetic attempt to grind anyways?
There is no way to interact with teammates other than in a setting of risk. No training servers, no 'just fun' play settings (race tracks for vehicles) hell, even dummy shooting competitions. ANYTHING to get the 'not now, my kdr matters more than friends' out of our heads. Now let me go flaunt about it till someone else can pull out a bigger d*ck and we can call each other cheaters all day.
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