A preview of things to come?

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

Ah, but acting immaturely is a lot different from acting childish. And that, plainly put, is what these two people are doing. Although there is a probability that the second person merely posted his/her post as a joke.

I do wonder which moderator on there is responsible for deleting all other forum posts? Judging from their titles, I think they're pretty relevant posts, so why delete them? Then again, if IGN is stupid enough to make that so-called "king of the board" a moderator, well.....

[Phoenix-D]

That isn't deleted posts, Strategia; that's IGN's "no thread necromancy" policy in action. Threads there are automaticlly locked by the board after a certain period of time.

[Atrocities]

IGN forums suck arse!

[Puke]

Thermo, if you really wanted to "show them how its done" you could have posted somthing helpful, mature, and informative.

[Thermodyne]

Puke said:
Thermo, if you really wanted to "show them how its done" you could have posted somthing helpful, mature, and informative.

Ummm……Who says I was trying to be any of that. It’s a crappy little (well actually quite big) forum mostly full of kiddy crap. The post fits the theme of the thread. My intent was to introduce them to the core community. Like everyone else, they can look around and lurk for a while and see how things are done around here. Lord knows, this place needs some new blood. Look at how few people are the authors of the majority of the posts around here.

[Thermodyne]

I’m surprised at you guys. MM has decided to take the game retail, which means that the majority of the people introduced to it will be kids. And this is “the” SE forum at the moment. It’s not a private forum purely reserved for the use of a few SE hardliners. I would imagine that SG would like it to generate traffic and new customers for their games. Thing are going to change, and a lot of the old guard won’t like the results, but such is life.

[AMF]

That's a good point. If we really want SE5 to succeed, then we need to be prepared for a lot of new players to the game - and, if this is THE forum for SE5 then it will need to be ready.

However, I am not sure this will be the official forum - given that Shrapnel will not sell SE5, I suspect that whichever company does will have an official forum - which may very well be less rigorous (in terms of friendliness, intellectual level, maturity, etc...)...

But, really this is all sort of premature...and I do sound a bit arrogant in the above statement...I am reminded of the truism that every generation thinks the newcomer generation is composed of losers/slackers who didn't suffer and grow like they did....so...nevermind! Progress is progress.

Thermodyne said:
I’m surprised at you guys. MM has decided to take the game retail, which means that the majority of the people introduced to it will be kids. And this is “the” SE forum at the moment. It’s not a private forum purely reserved for the use of a few SE hardliners. I would imagine that SG would like it to generate traffic and new customers for their games. Thing are going to change, and a lot of the old guard won’t like the results, but such is life.

[Renegade 13]

Very true Fyron. But a lot of people were talking about the age of the person, not the maturity level

[Puke]

I dont want to keep anyone out, but challenging them with tripe like "think you've got some big ones?" isnt going to help them mature into productive members of this (or any) community.