For better for worse ?

[David Hayward]

Originally Posted by Insuber

1) Ignore the trolls (they are in every forum) .

They tried that. It failed miserably.

[Insuber]

Originally Posted by David Hayward

They tried that. It failed miserably.

How can an "ignore" attitude fail? Ignore means that you don't care, not the other way round.

[David Hayward]

Originally Posted by Insuber

How can an "ignore" attitude fail? Ignore means that you don't care, not the other way round.

They ignored the constant trolling and the forum was a disaster area.

Originally Posted by David Hayward

They ignored the constant trolling and the forum was a disaster area.

A disaster for whom ?

And how would you qualify the state of the forum now, keeping in mind what is the purpuse of a forum...

[David Hayward]

Originally Posted by XL5

A disaster for whom ?

And how would you qualify the state of the forum now, keeping in mind what is the purpuse of a forum...

For everyone. The quality has not changed much. That's part of the reason they're no longer posting updates.

Originally Posted by David Hayward

They tried that. It failed miserably.

Insuber is also right on...Trolls are not 1C's problem...Trolls are our problem to deal with. And that is why we have Moderators. A Forum is an information and discussion tool. If you cut info, what would we talk about ? Well, look at the recent posts, and the answer is there....
By not keeping up with true and constant updates about COD's progress makes it look like if 1C was in trouble...or angry at his custommers for not being patient and understanding enough....and that generates more bad than good within the community...This is how it works in all business....

[ACE-OF-ACES]

Only thing I know for sure is that no mater what 1C does..

There will be someone that is not happy with it..

Thus there will allways be whining..

Just human nature!

With that said the 'health' of a product can be judged based on the 'percentage of users' whining..

Which is not to be confused with the 'percentage' of whining!

In that as we have seen in this forum, the 'majority' of 'whining' is/was produced by a very select few (6 or so).

That is to say 'most' of the users here understand what it takes to make a game, and they realise that most games these days take months if not years to flush out bugs.

With that said..

I think CoD is right inline with most modern games

But a new commer to this forum would not leave with that impression based on the 'percentage' of whining posts in this forum..

Unless said new commer took the time to notice that the 'majority' of whins are repeated over and over by a selet few.