There’s a type of user on games forums I can’t stand.
They’re the person who never wants to stick their neck out — about anything — and will always parrot the company line, even though they have nothing to do with the company at all. Such people must be a game company’s wet dream — unpaid parrots, squawking the company line! Fantastic!
One of them tried to attack some recent comments of mine on the TOR forum, relating to where Bioware’s beta key policy might go in the future with, “I think Bioware will do what they want to with their beta invites. I think we should let them do their job and we should do ours, wait.”
Wow, look at that underline. THEIR. He sure told me, eh? It’s Bioware’s job, not mine! Apparently I shouldn’t be allowed to comment at all. But as I said to him (or her), verbatim:
So you’re one of these people who might look at politics and say, “I think the government will do what they want to with their policies. I think we should let them do their job and we should do ours, wait.”
That’s fine, I understand there are people like you out there. I’m just more vocal about what I want, and what I think works. You see it everyday in political commentary, sports commentary… why so weird in game commentary?
What do you folks think? How is is that everyday life is full of commentary about everything… from sport to politics… yet when you get on a gaming forum and state your likes, dislikes, dreams, etc, the parrots come out of the woodwork and try to drag you down with stupid comments?
It’s bizarre.
I feel like when these types of people come to comment on something they never have anything constructive to bring to the table so they just tote a line they think is infallible and simple. “So and so said that this is what they are doing so dont question it”.
Now I ask, does not asking questions or testing those in power ever help for the better? most the time not.
Asking a question to Bioware on certain things or concerns we as players have has already changed things that they have added into the game or possibly take out.
The bottom line is Bioware is making the game for US, the consumer and if the consumer doesn’t like it then the game doesn’t sell.
It’s a forum, the whole freaking point is to voice concerns and opinions. But Im not suprised since this game was revealed to have trinity all sorts of nuts to put it politely have crawled out of the woodwork in order to adulate at the feet of Bioware in hopes of thier own golden ticket.
Bioware WANTS the feedback – it’s one of the main functions of the pre-game forum.
Such ‘parrots’ are rather unimportant for the BW, since most likely they will buy the game in any case. But the Developers want critical feedback, to reach those who are undecided.