Quoted for truth. Once the patch is released the RELIC apologists excuse it away.
To all RELIC apologists: The 'bitching' and 'moaning' isn't always warranted, I grant you, but it is warranted now. In fact, with the treatment and attitude from RELIC, there's isn't ENOUGH bitching and moaning. If there was MORE moaning, if it was allowed to be freely expressed, if it was loud enough, we might actually get real change with the game. The official forums are moderated harshly. From day one no dissent or criticism was ever allowed. That's a poisonous attitude to have against your community.
Anyone who attempts to excuse RELIC's terrible mismanagement of both the game and community are fully discredited and definitely shouldn't be a MOD of a fan site that purports to look out for the interests of the community.
If the patch fails to be a ball draining mind fuck explosion of goodness, then RELIC should explain to us why and what the specific plans are for the future. And if they have no specific plans for the future--that's exactly what they should tell us. But at the very least, they should tell us.
Contrary to the belief of some posters, the Staff here do understand the position: they come from the community, they are of the community. They think little differently to the community. Siberian, who posts on here, was an established lead Orange, until he resigned.
i am now going to borrow heavily from Onkel Sam in a previous discussion 18 months ago, which I have slightly adapted:
We are not Relic, so we do not add any element to the game. We are a fansite.
Our intention behind locking specific threads is not to protect any of "OUR" content, but the intention is to keep productive discussions.
If a thread is discussing specific content with arguments, we will not lock it. If a thread is only about ranting at Relic and about how they do everything wrong, we likely are going to lock it, because there is nothing to discuss in such a thread, but adding even more rant. (Also, if a poster cannot write feedback without using f*** and shit words in every sentence, we are not going to accept that either).
This has nothing to do with censorship. We want people to be able discuss topics constructively on our forums, without some dicks destroying it for the majority.
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Now you can work out how to get this thread locked