I know people have been ragging over stupid things lately. I understand your annoyance and frustration with their petty comments. I just wanted to create a small thread to thank you for your work and I am excited to hold my copy of Elemental in my hands in a few short weeks.
That being said. I think I will make a frog the size of a dragon as a monster in my game and have it eat whiny villagers and what not.
Cheers Bud!
Helpful tip: admitting to pirating products we sell is not conducive to your continued presence on our forums. Bye.
You have a lot of nerve showing up here and asking something like that. In case you didn't know, you have no business being a part of this conversation. We're talking about paying customers with legal copies of games and the way companies treat them. You have no business being a part of this conversation. You don't have an online account because you'd be rejected for having an illegal copy by the way, not because you avoid multiplayer in single-player games.
Second, this is one of the issues with DRM and online authentication; ultimately, pirates have the better product. The reason you don't have to authenticate is that your DLCs are likely cracked. When you downloaded the .dazips, they were either already cracked, or you ran the authenticator/cracker that comes with every DLC torrent, which automatically cracks all installed DLCs.
No.
Found a worse one for you then the Star Craft 2 forums in some ways frogboy. Over at biowares website for the old republic they unveiled 3 new playable races and there are a bunch of whiners just calling the Sith Pureblood, Zabrak and the other one I forgot just lazy recolored humanoids. People will always find something to bitch about.
Oh well. 17 days to go.
@Frogboy
I too echo the OP in thanking you for your hard work.
I will make a devilishly macho Frog and have it snuggle down with all of Elemental's hot heroines.
LOL
14 days...*convulses on floor* need ele...*passes out*
Give the man a cigar. Also, your story made me happy I don't buy Bioware stuff anymore.
But back on the original, original topic: Thanks, Stardock!
Will I have to have my internet up to play Elemental? I know for my beta one I have to have internet going and have been bummed about that at times. I live in ND and sometimes lose internet for hours on end and like to mess with the beta, but it wouldnt let me. Is this going to be the same with retail? Is this also what Civ V will be shipping with...that if I dont have internet at times im s o l? If so, thats a bummer. Im not knocking Impulse as it seems really easy to use. Havnt used Steam much, but it seems like alot of peps dont like it much. Ive also read where Frog was talking about it and I love how he puts things simply so others who arent in the know can understand it.
I also wonder if I can make a graphic novel out of Elemental. I made one for GC, way back when with Star Trek ships, and wonder if they would be upset if I did one like it, except for the Elemental world. Might need to get the book (which Ill have to order online, since there isnt a bookstore near here).
No. The only thing you'd need Internet for is to download updates (or play Multiplayer).
The game downloaded data at runtime for Betas 1-3 only to prevent premature modding and allow the devs to change data without rebuilding. As of Beta 4 (and release) this is no longer the case.
It would be interesting to read AAR's (After Action Reports) for WoM, sort of like what a lot of people do for Paradox's games (Europa Universalis, Crusader Kings, etc). Can include screenshots, etc. Also, this would be a great, indirect way, to advertise the game since I can see people plopping these down on Squidoo and Hubpages.
Whew...so glad to hear that. Thanks for letting me know! Appreciate your hard efforts!
I've been banned on the Bioware forums before but I was not band from the game. I have never heard of this happening.
It is not always about the person that gets banned is being a dick. There are many times when a thin skinned dev can't take the criticism and bans the person. And this does happen more than you think. I've seen it happen many times on the forums of different games.
Now I really doubt this will happen here Frogboy and his crew are some of the best Devs in the gaming industry and they are also gamers. I have seen Frogboy get pissed on the forums but he handled it very well and no one got banned. Yet he did fight back agienst the poster which was cool.
Personally though my biggest problem with game forums are the hard core Fan boys that turn a blind eye to the game that they supposedly love which can actually hurt the game. They will tell the Devs they are doing fine when they are not and the game suffers because of it (if the devs listen to these Fan Boys.) These are the ones that will attack anyone with any sort of constructive criticism of the game no matter how minor or how well these criticisms were presented in the forums. Luckily we don't see that kind of Fanboyism here on these forums.
13 days to go. And stop rambling about bannings from forums and stuff. that conversation is dead. This is now about 13 days. Puppies, and giant frog dragons eating whining villagers.
And bears.
I find this hard to believe. I think people posting anonymously on the Internet have a very warped definition of what constructive criticism is. A good underlying point delivered in the rudest way possible isn't constructive at all. I visit the Blizzard forums from time to time too and I'm really amazed at how people like Ghostcrawler can respond without losing their temper.
Frogboy brings up a very good point. He got pissed off reading the retardation in the Blizzard forums. Guess who else is pissed off? Almost all the good posters are. It's not just game developers who don't like to visit lightly moderated forums like that. Most of the good posters in the community with something to contribute avoid it like the plague as well.
If you've ever followed Blizzard's games, almost all the good members of the community are in fan forums like Elitist Jerks and Tankspot for WoW, TeamLiquid for Starcraft and Lurker's Lounge and Amazon Basin for Diablo. Almost nobody with anything worthwhile to contribute does so on the official forums. It's just a whinefest over there.
Some posters may be right that companies need to cut their paying customers some slack to act like complete douches on their official forums. However, other paying customers do not have to cut their whiny, rude, childish brethren the same slack. Almost every popular game has an official forum that's garbage with all their constructive posters posting in other, popular fan forums. The difference is that the fan forums are way more moderated.
That a mod is thin-skinned and ban-happy? I don't find it hard to believe at all. I've seen it.
Admittedly, there's a lot of jerkassery goes on which deserves banning, but in some cases the mods abuse their positions. Or they or their employers decide the forum in question is going to be squeaky-clean and ban anyone who expresses an opinion. Or the forum goes 1984 and bans anyone who's critical of a pet issue. The reason that Tankspot and Elitist Jerks are the leaders for serious WoW discussions is because half* of the serious theorycrafters have been banned from the official forums, often for flaming some mouth-breathing retard who desperately deserved it.
All that said, I don't think that mods abusing their positions is a bad thing in the long run. Mods are jerks, or they aren't, but either way the forum ends up with exactly the readers that it deserves -- no more and no less. However, if Luckmann was truly banned from the game for actions on the forums, that's a dick move.
*This statistic was pulled squarely out of my ass.
Guys please, this thread is not the place to discuss this issue/topic. The only reason this thread hasn't been locked for off-topic yet is because the thread is addressed to our Dear Leader. I don't think the moderators on this forum are lock/ban happy. You can see for yourself by starting a thread for this topic in the appropriate forum and remaining on topic through the thread.
You're pretty late trying to change the direction of a thread that's been going on a week now. They wouldn't ban this thread if there was another topic title by the way. I don't know why you think that. There is nothing going in this thread that deserve a lock. If anything, it's a testament to what we're talking about in action, Stardock not being heavy handed on their forums... the way you seem to want them to be.
I'm not the only one - others have also protested this thread hijack/derail on every page of this thread.
If a thread doesnt deserve a lock for consistently going off-topic, why do we need threads anyway? Let's make the entire forum one giant thread?
I honestly don't care what I seem to want, in your perception. But since you have stated what you think, I must say that you're wrong. I don't have any preference for the heavy or light handedness shown by the moderators or admins on this forum. I do have a preference for threads making sense, for example, when someone opens a thread titled "Dear frogboy", with the OP attempting to thank BW for his efforts and his patience, turning into a ragefest against Valve/Blizzard/EA by the second page. To repeat what I stated earlier, I don't think anyone will be stopped from discussing these topics on this forum, but I request that it be done in it's own thread.
I didn't even want to post this response, because now I am actively contributing to the thread derailment. But I am compelled try to stop you from twisting my words.
I see your real issue now. Thanks for clearing that up.
Well, said flaming would also get those same people banned on Elitist Jerks, often with some sarcastic, witty remark from Kaubel. I actually find Elitist Jerks a good reason why certain ban and infraction happy moderators are not just warranted but welcome.
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