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Post by Strayed on Nov 16, 2017 15:17:12 GMT -5
The forum is completely managed by fans, there's no pixo influence here outside of a community "manager" who we have contact with but never listens to anything we say which means that we don't listen to him either. You should see the subreddit though, there's actually a pixo employee as a moderator on there. If you're talking about me, seeing as I'm the only active moderator that isn't tofsla (the same community manager that's on here and he doesn't communicate or moderate aside from a random announcement once every 60 days) - I can assure you I am definately NOT a pixonic employee. We modeled the subreddit rules basically in the same fashion as the rules on this forum. Where do you guys get this information? Or do you just make stuff up? Oh, I'm only talking about Tofsla. I didn't know that that was all he did as I'm not able to view moderation unlike on the forums. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
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Post by Strayed on Nov 16, 2017 2:37:14 GMT -5
I don't really like MWO because it's too grindy, but I hope it pushes pixo's 「dookie」 in.
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Post by Strayed on Nov 16, 2017 2:29:13 GMT -5
Nerd rage much? Edit: I have been a member of a few game forums. I am rather surprised by how freely Pix lets people rant and complain, post calls for boycotts, and post 'I'm quitting' messages. Most other gaming companies lock or delete such threads and ban posters. Things seem fairly relaxed here. But what do I know...I'm just a sheep follower The forum is completely managed by fans, there's no pixo influence here outside of a community "manager" who we have contact with but never listens to anything we say which means that we don't listen to him either.
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Post by Strayed on Nov 14, 2017 13:33:17 GMT -5
HAHAHA.... Strayed changed it back to firetruck. I then told him off and changed it back. I wasn't the one who changed it though, only thing I did was change a word that was being used to avoid the censor.
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Post by Strayed on Nov 14, 2017 13:27:45 GMT -5
A few months ago, I made a poll on whether tanking was cheating, not cheating but unethical, or completely okay. Most of our forum policy is based on the results from that poll(not cheating but unethical>>cheating>completely okay), hence the mixed attitude towards tanking. It would be interesting to create a new poll as the attitude towards tanking has probably changed tremendously. This would also allow us to change the policy towards tanking in order to better fit the community's opinion. On the inconsistency of our policy towards tanking, I will say that our policy is kept somewhat up to interpretation so most of the time decisions are made by an individual mod's analysis of the situation backed up by at least one other mod that agrees with him, meaning that two mods must agree in order for a decision to be carried out. Dear Strayed, as the head admin, I'll reply to your post to address a few issue. First of all, I don't think a poll is a much effective instrument to gauging an opinion in the presence of a small, but strongly motivated and easier to organize minority (tankers usually congregate in clans, so it's much easier for them to have the word out to come running to vote than it is for non tankers). It's the reason diffuse interests usually lose in front of industries, after all. But why not. On the inconsistency of the policy, I'd say it seems now couple with inconsistency among the mods as well, and I'm not saying that with spite, I understand that administering a community with people living in different time zones and possibly with difference in language and even attitudes about the policies is a mess, been there, done that (both in game forums ad.. well.. slightly more serous than that). You are saying here that policy is left to interpretation and an action has to be taken by 2 out of 9 of them. Super-hero pretty much said here, instead, that the interpretation towards "gloating is fine" is a consensus among mods, based on the "freedom of speech" theory. xXrobotrippinXx here said that Super-Hero was talking in the name of all mods, which, in the light of what you said, makes one wonder is that means Super-hero and himself, or really there is a consensus among all of you. Note that he could have a pretty strong conflict of interest on this specific policy, given that in other threads he stated that he artificially keeps his level at Diamond and we all know that's almost impossible unless you purposefully throw a game here and there which is.. yeah.. a form of tanking (even worse when he openly talks about trying bots level 11 in diamond league, seriously). Super-hero said here that there IS a discussion ongoing among the mods, which sort of doesn't square with your statement that things are the way they are, but could possibly change after a poll among players. Than you have Schnitzel who said here that you WILL have a discussion about it and xXrobotrippinXx less than 2 hours later saying here that you HAD a discussion about it. Forgive me if I think it's unrealistic that you gathered the 9 admins and discussed the issue within 90 minutes so one has to think that one admin is thinking is having a discussion that another think will happen in teh future while a third is referring to a previous discussion that he thinks definitive. All this, in a thread less than 2 pages long. Again, please don't take it as an rant, a flame or, even less, a personal attack on you or the mods (altought on some I have my reservations, but on 9 people, that's unavoidable I guess), but you strongly give the impression that, on the issue, the mods are both improvising and possibly having some conflict of interest within their ranks. By personal experience, that's not exactly a position you want to be in, if I may. So, yes, I hope you shall reconsider the issue and will realize that allowing self avowed gloating and boasting tankers on the forum, if it may have a minimal impact on the players' population as a whole, is having a severe impact on the forum and, as Super-hero said, is "being detrimental to the overall health of the forum", the way I haven't seen since the worse days of the maggeps controversies. Than again, you are the head admin and you all are the mods, I'll defer to your judgment. Thank you for the constructive criticism regarding the poll. I think that if we did it the same way as the final round in the most influential forum member thing, where only experienced users can vote and we count the votes by hand, it might work. The original poll was back when tanker clans didn't exist so that may have been why it worked out the way it did. As to your concerns regarding our inconsitency, the example that you posted, the "free speech" theory is indeed agreed upon by all the mods. All of the large decisions in policy such as the aforementioned "free speech" are agreed upon by complete consensus. What I was talking about was more on the enforcement end of the scale. In some "no-brainer" cases, such as when spambots attack, mods are allowed to act alone. However, in the vast majority of instances when enforcing the policy, mods are required to have another mod back up their decision before they can act upon it, although Jay and I do have some leeway with that as we're head mod and admin, respectively. This is only 2 out of 9 because enforcement of the rules would take too long otherwise. This may be the reason for the inconsistency that you are seeing. On the discussion, as far as I know, pretty much every currently active mod agreed to it so that's why it went so quickly. We'll have to hammer out the specifics later, but pretty much everyone agrees to the basic idea of a community poll/forum(heh). I actually like threads like this somewhat as it gives us constructive criticism and allows us to see where we could improve, so don't worry about me taking this the wrong way. Personally, my opinion leans more towards banning tankers, but I agreed to the "free speech" policy as that was what it seemed like the majority of the forum wanted at the time. I'm currently typing this on an iPad, so please excuse any typos.
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Post by Strayed on Nov 14, 2017 1:57:19 GMT -5
Actually, this forum is completely managed by community members, although we do have contact with one of their representatives. Does that representative actually listen to your ideas and present them to Pixonic? Our old one did. Our new one? No
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Post by Strayed on Nov 14, 2017 0:49:29 GMT -5
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Post by Strayed on Nov 14, 2017 0:10:22 GMT -5
I have no doubt that, just like World of Tanks, Pixonic provides this forum as a "relief valve" for frustrated players to blow off steam. Actually, this forum is completely managed by community members, although we do have contact with one of their representatives.
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Post by Strayed on Nov 14, 2017 0:04:44 GMT -5
A few months ago, I made a poll on whether tanking was cheating, not cheating but unethical, or completely okay. Most of our forum policy is based on the results from that poll(not cheating but unethical>>cheating>completely okay), hence the mixed attitude towards tanking. It would be interesting to create a new poll as the attitude towards tanking has probably changed tremendously. This would also allow us to change the policy towards tanking in order to better fit the community's opinion. On the inconsistency of our policy towards tanking, I will say that our policy is kept somewhat up to interpretation so most of the time decisions are made by an individual mod's analysis of the situation backed up by at least one other mod that agrees with him, meaning that two mods must agree in order for a decision to be carried out.
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Post by Strayed on Nov 12, 2017 8:38:23 GMT -5
Pixo will program a mass hypnotization device into War Robots and turn us all into sleeper agents for the revival of the USSR, either that or they'll add at least a hundred more currencies into the game.
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Post by Strayed on Nov 7, 2017 16:12:22 GMT -5
One of the primary arguments we see defending Pixonic on this forum is that Pixonic needs to make the game pay to win to "keep the lights on" and that games have a lifespan, so Pixonic needs to cash in now. This argument has been pedaled by moderators, "trusted contributors," and long terms members. And it's complete garbage. The argument shows a narrow focus that ignores the history of gaming and lack of understanding of both games and human behavior in general. I mostly agree with your post, however, I do not agree with this. I have never seen a moderator or trusted contributor make such an argument. If anything, the mods and trusted contributors are the ones most pissed off by this turn into P2W as they have dedicated massive amounts of time and energy into the the game only to be slapped in the face by mail.ru. Do not put words into the mouths of others.
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Post by Strayed on Nov 5, 2017 22:01:03 GMT -5
Sabaton:
Also Dio:
And Frank Klepacki:
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Post by Strayed on Nov 5, 2017 21:09:43 GMT -5
Strrrraaaaaayyyyyyyeeeeeeddddddd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by Strayed on Nov 5, 2017 13:28:53 GMT -5
1. We are not pixonic
2. Please do not include profanity in pictures.
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Post by Strayed on Nov 4, 2017 23:00:18 GMT -5
Alright, record is 24 minutes, let's see if he can break that.
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Post by Strayed on Nov 4, 2017 22:02:28 GMT -5
Alright, let's see how long it takes for him to come back and complain that his playstyle that ruins the game for other players got nerfed even though it was buffed for six months straight.
I should probably add "Don't be an ?bum-bum? and we won't ban you." to the rulebook already.
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Post by Strayed on Nov 2, 2017 1:48:52 GMT -5
Strayed you seem to support the seal clubbing that is happening in the upper levels what are your thoughts on that? Dude, I've never even spent a single cent on the game, I'm not even actively playing it right now. I was actually one of the harshest critics of seal clubbing back in the days of hangar based mm, just look through some of my earlier posts.
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Post by Strayed on Nov 2, 2017 1:36:38 GMT -5
Apologies to our führor strayed, takes a Nazi to know how that's spelled. Here is another post you can censor. Strayed acts like he knows history but really he's a little 「female dog」 playing grammar police. I lived the cold war you millinial 「fluffernutter」 Actually, it only takes a ~2 second google search. Also, no profanity.
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Post by Strayed on Nov 2, 2017 0:53:09 GMT -5
It's actually pronounced Führer mein freund. It's your fault for not reading the rules mate. Posts supporting tanking are a no-no, general protests are okay however.
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Post by Strayed on Nov 2, 2017 0:06:56 GMT -5
Do you feel like a hero yet?
Also, no avoiding the censor.
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Post by Strayed on Oct 27, 2017 22:40:23 GMT -5
I dunno what you did, but I'm seeing pink "GuitarGuy" text as many users forum "rank" text. Y'know, where it says Patton, GuitarGuy , etc? Still does for most people but random names in each thread have GuitarGuy's name under their own nick as their "rank", and in mod pink colour. :/ Edit: Someone set up a text replacement for "B o a" with the above name, apparently... Fixed it, don't know why the hell that happened.
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Post by Strayed on Oct 23, 2017 3:17:27 GMT -5
It's not because of cosmetics, it's because of lootboxes with cosmetics that are only purchasable with RM, rarity ranked cosmetics, a fanbase that loves cosmetics and thinks of them as status symbols, and an in-depth cosmetics market.
TF2 is not successful because of cosmetics, but rather how valve markets them, distributes them, gives people the chance to trade them for RM or other cosmetics, and the fact that cosmetics are thought of as status symbols by the community, giving people a large incentive to buy them. You can pretty much apply this to CS:GO as well.
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Post by Strayed on Oct 21, 2017 23:24:22 GMT -5
Does this look like the face of mercy to you?
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Post by Strayed on Oct 21, 2017 12:46:41 GMT -5
I have always wondered this too. Why can they not merge the two most popular platforms (iOS/Android) into one server? I feel it would solve so many issues with small player pools. I think the only drawback would be the egos of those clans in the top 100 on both sides, half of them form each platform would most likely fall out of the standings. A bummer for sure, but if it made the game better for all it would be a small price to pay. I know if my clan fell from the top 100 it would be the perfect excuse to just play custom match games and not even worry about ranking anymore. True! As I already was saying, there is no technical reason for this. We'd have enough players for a reasonable MM and we'd also have enough players for: - Choose the map you want - Choose game mode you want Clans and clan rankings might be indeed some kind of issue. But will this really matter if the game is getting killed over the changes from the last few month? To keep the game running, PIx ought to keep the player base together. Actually, there would be a problem. Pixo wouldn't be able to use Android as their guinea pigs anymore.
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Post by Strayed on Oct 10, 2017 21:05:28 GMT -5
Honestly, there isn't much like this game anymore. You could try out war wings, you could also try out some lobby fps shooters, such as critical ops(counter strike clone) or bullet force(CoD clone). You could also try out some moba games(similar to mmo control schemes, like WoW) such as LoL or DoTA.
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Post by Strayed on Oct 9, 2017 21:35:27 GMT -5
What about the majority of posters that aren't snowflakes and can tolerate seeing something we don't agree with? When will this board cater to them? If you can tolerate something that you don't agree with, then you can tolerate this post, which is something that you don't agree with. We're not removing discussions about Pixo's stupidity here, we're just trying to make the forum a better experience for people who are looking for information on the game itself. Protesting is different from posting information about Pixo's shady tactics. If your post is all "rah rah fight the fat panda" then it goes into rants. If your post is about something like how prices of dash bots are different for different players, it can go into general as long as it isn't overly ranty.
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Post by Strayed on Oct 9, 2017 21:31:47 GMT -5
Guys, protesting is not the same as posting information on Pixonic's transgressions against the playerbase.
If your post is something like making fun of a pixonic employee(such as the "how dare you" fiasco) it goes in the rants board. If you're just merely sharing information, such as the different prices of dash bots for different players, it can go into general.
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Post by Strayed on Oct 9, 2017 21:29:31 GMT -5
Hello everyone, since some people have been complaining about the causticity of the forum lately, from now on, please put protest threads in the rants board. Sorry to anyone negatively affected by this. Thank you!
Maybe we should open up a protest section...
Dejnov.
I actually proposed that to the other mods, but they wanted protests in the rants section instead.
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Post by Strayed on Oct 8, 2017 22:33:50 GMT -5
Hello everyone, since some people have been complaining about the causticity of the forum lately, from now on, please put protest threads in the rants board.
Sorry to anyone negatively affected by this.
Thank you!
Edit: Sorry, didn't realize that I wasn't clear enough about this.
Protesting is not the same as posting information on Pixonic's transgressions against the playerbase.
If your post is something like making fun of a pixonic employee(such as the "how dare you" fiasco) it goes in the rants board. If you're just merely sharing information, such as the different prices of dash bots for different players, it can go into general.
In other words, posts with actual information can go on general.
Even if your post is in rants, it doesn't mean that it won't show up on 'Recent'. It just means that people who don't like such posts can use 'No Rants' to avoid it. These aren't the type of people who you're trying to convince either.
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Post by Strayed on Oct 8, 2017 20:53:10 GMT -5
That Strayed 「fluffernutter」er, guy stole my name and my forum.
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