"I refuse to participate in this nonsence" thread.
By
3dent,
Posted on: 2009-04-29 15:12 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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As paying customers who have supported the game in various ways, financially, and vocally and many of us tried to keep the doomsayers at bay, we have every right to express in reasonable - if at times - passionate ways why it's time for us to stop supporting the game and move on to pastures new (or at least move away from existing pastures.)
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No argument here. Absolutely none at all. You have the right, you may exercise it. And I have nothing personal against you or any other quitters, quite to the contrary, I liked your posts.
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There's a very good reason the front page is flooded with them and it's not simply a "bandwagon" but it may be that yesterday was the catalyst that caused a chain reaction. It could have gone two ways.
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There was such a reason. But now... However you call it "bandwagon" or "chain reaction" doesn't change it, - in my view it reached the point where it's just as much fueled by the threads themselves as by the actual reasons. All I wanted to was to make people stop and think before doing all those dramatic pledges, to leave or to stay, that's all.
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Oh and I fixed the title for you
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P.S. Don't remember if I said it to you, but your farewell fic was great.
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Us long term veterans
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Not in my name.
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Indeed. Apologies for the broad tarring, but in lieu of copy pasting a list I decided derogative use of the term 'veteran' sufficed to get the point across. I figured the majority of sane long term players and forumites would understand the distinction, and those who didn't....well if someone actually tricked themself into thinking I care about bad opinions of me, they can probably make up for lost time and good a good hate-on while I eat the leftover beef from dinner.
Chairman of the Charity of Pain; accepting donations of blood and guts.
Prophet of the Creamy Truth; "If it's empty, fill it with cream."
This will disappear in a week, 2 at most.
Ive been playing this for long enough to consider myself a veteran and after reading the transcript all i can say is im glad were getting issue 15 so quickly.
Goodbye posts are easy to avoid.
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For me it's simple, if I feel like playing, I play. If I don't, I don't play. For months, sometimes. I don't see why I need to make those decisions into a show, beyond necessary precaution of warning SG mates of not kicking my toons just yet and similar technicalities. If I want critique dev team's decisions I do so. If I feel that what devs did was justifiable I say so. I don't see a point of turning this simple process into something MORE IMPPORTANT and a way to SHOW THAT I CARE. It's just a game, a very good one, one of the best I played ever, but still just a game.
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And that's the most sensible thing anyone's said since before all this drama began.
/signed
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But then the OP goes on to perpetuate the drama by making supposed "counter-drama" posts. Thing is that it doesn't work. The OT is a classic case of trying to change someones mind. Which doesn't work unless you have influence over the person you are speaking to, which you probably don't since you are on polar oposites of a topic you both have strong feelings about. If you'd ACTUALLY wanted the drama to stop, you'd have shut up about it, because what you are doing here with the OT is dragging it out. Salt in the wound. Dragging it out. Beating a dead horse. Get it? If you want it to stop, wait till the people who are moaning have actually quit the game or is so ashamed they haven't that they just stop posting about it. Eventually, though, the drama dies down. IF YOU STOP PICKING AT IT.
Do I have to draw you a picture here?
What's the gosh darn problem with just ignoring the feces out of the people moaning, and just get the heck on with your own dang life. Do you continually pick at scabs from road rash or whatever? Do you know what happens if you do? -It never heals.- If you want people to get over it, just ignore them!
Did you notice how annoying it was when I just kept having at it in this post, over and over? That's you, going on and on and on about how bloody fed up you are with people critisizing the game. It's getting really old, really fast.
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But then the OP goes on to perpetuate the drama by making supposed "counter-drama" posts. Thing is that it doesn't work. The OT is a classic case of trying to change someones mind. Which doesn't work unless you have influence over the person you are speaking to, which you probably don't since you are on polar oposites of a topic you both have strong feelings about. If you'd ACTUALLY wanted the drama to stop, you'd have shut up about it, because what you are doing here with the OT is dragging it out. Salt in the wound. Dragging it out. Beating a dead horse. Get it? If you want it to stop, wait till the people who are moaning have actually quit the game or is so ashamed they haven't that they just stop posting about it. Eventually, though, the drama dies down. IF YOU STOP PICKING AT IT.
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Good point and I'm doing just that, effective immediately. Itt was just that I felt some people, about whose opinions I care misunderstood me, and wanted to clarify my position.
If anyone has any comments/questions/flmes directed at me, they're welcome to use PMs.
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That's what private messages are for.
If you're that friendly with them, send them a personal good bye.
Rather than nailing your dirty washing up in the town square, so to speak.
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Because I know the forum names of everyone I have met over the years?
If you dislike people saying good bye in anyway don't read them. Just as I hate the stupid 'happy cake day' posts that I don't read. As it is your post is a needless attempt at post count bumping.
I'd be happier if the devs would actually change something due to our leaving posts, I doubt it will happen but I can dream. If we all leave with no farewell then the devs will just assume that everything is hunky-dory and continue as they are with no chance of changing anything.
Look, people have the right to say goodbye to the friends they've made over the years on CoX so we shouldn't be flaming them for that. But people are taking this really seriously. I can understand peoples disappointment, I admit I was a bit disappointed as well but I got over it, there's still new content being given to us.
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I'm speshul.
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In several senses of the word.
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I'm speshul.
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In several senses of the word.
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But is "speshul" even a word? 
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Is it just me that finds you having a job in a nursery both humourous and terrifying?
[/ QUOTE ]So did I, but they haven't sacked me yet so I can't be doing too bad.
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That explains why the new players have lately been worse than they used to be...
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Is it just me that finds you having a job in a nursery both humourous and terrifying?
[/ QUOTE ]So did I, but they haven't sacked me yet so I can't be doing too bad.
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That explains why the new players have lately been worse than they used to be...
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i was fine till they found me giving the little brats trifle laced with night nurse. Nobody could understand why all my little darlings were so quiet and slept all afternoon. It was heaven as I could play CoX all afternoon without being disturbed.
Strangely my excuse that Lord Recluse made me do it didn't go down too well 
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Honestly, if the forums were this exciting all the time, I wouldn't have stopped (mostly) using them.
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Exciting? This is exciting? You should get a job at a nursery, you'd have a great time - everyday a rollercoaster, guaranteed.
[/ QUOTE ]Is a good job to do for a while at least, but you can't rage at kids so I wouldn't recommend it as a forum substitute
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Is it just me that finds you having a job in a nursery both humourous and terrifying?
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Nope, I'm stuck somewhere between awe, humour and terror as well.
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Us long term veterans are saying goodbye out of courtesy to the people we never see in game but chat to on the forum. Some we agree with, some we don't. some we love, some we hate with a passion. We are giving our reasons for going and try to do it in a constructive way rather than saying "this game sux".
Have you not noticed the pain between the lines of the leaving posts? People have made friends, met partners, had children, moved house, lost loved ones with CoX as a place to retreat to and escape the pain, or brag about the rugrat, or just to escape from real life for a while.
Friendships change and alter in life. Some get stronger and others fall by the wayside. CoX is a friend that for many of us has moved in a different direction than we wanted and lost its way. we have tried to explain our problems but the friend isn't listening so its time to part. Thats not to say some or all of us won't be back at some point. I'll probably pop my head round the door in a few months time to see whats happening, but for now allow the people who have put three, four or even five years of their lives to say their goodbyes.
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Excellent point... Except for that 10 farewell threads on a single day thingy. And similar "epidemic" when Brighton dev team was fired.
I have nothing against farewell threads as such, or farewell threads caused by recent events, but don't you see that the entire first page consiisting of them (at the moment I started to write the OP) is a bit... Unusual, to say the least?
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As paying customers who have supported the game in various ways, financially, and vocally and many of us tried to keep the doomsayers at bay, we have every right to express in reasonable - if at times - passionate ways why it's time for us to stop supporting the game and move on to pastures new (or at least move away from existing pastures.)
There's a very good reason the front page is flooded with them and it's not simply a "bandwagon" but it may be that yesterday was the catalyst that caused a chain reaction. It could have gone two ways.
Oh and I fixed the title for you
Thelonious Monk