All this bickering is fine an' all...but as far as I can see, there aren't any random neutrals popping into this thread in the first place for friendly advice on our resident and vitriolic thread topic.
So where is all this Alpha keyboard warrior chest beating taking us really?
Well speak for yourself and think of a reason to come here on your own.
Me, I enjoy interacting with mature people which is a welcome change when compared to the rest of the internet and in this place I also am being protected from haters and toxic people. I am still vulnerable intellectually due to the stuff I write but thats a "game" I can play so oh for the "technical people".....Forum posting is a "game" too then?
You know Star Citizen is a brutal and wild jungle by now. Or rather...where would
you like newcomers to go in order to find out more about the game? Gaming sites? Forums? RSI website? Regardless what you say each and every place will be raged about being called "echo chamber" or "biased" because what some people consider "neutral" others consider "deceptive". At least in this place I dont find people spewing profanities at each other. I am still being personally attacked only in a way that circumvents forum rules but as I said....I can play
that game as well so I m not defenseless. Plus....you will find people in here who will not only make the effort to write more then a snippy 1-liner but who will actually
read and react to what you post.
Thats a stark contrast to many other places where the majority simply repeats a mantra and you can take it or leave because if you dare to doubt the message you are in for a rude treatment while the moderators stand by idly or ban YOU in the process.
Several articles have tried to tackle this project neutrally and most of them fail because they are not strict enough for some, are uninformed or got their facts wrong, are obvious shill sites or blatant hate articles...according to the people evaluating them. Random luck will determine which place you visit first which will make the biggest impact. Dissent and arguments are happening everywhere, even in Spektrum just the distribution of personaes vary. I see places where a regular post of mine would be absolutely SHREDDED and shouted into submission, I would be called names, threatened, PMed and generally stalked (DS rings a bell?) and while some people would agree with me the overall majority would "fight" me because of my opinion and heres the thing. These places are not about the stuff you write but rather if you prove to be loyal or not. Show any doubt and suddenly it becomes about YOU, everybody knows the game is superb, great, better then everything so YOU must be evil or or simply a jerk.
the SA forum isnt much better in my opinion. It was funny to read for a while but yeah...its a circle jerk of negativity where pro-SC voices get bloated out for a change. It equally disturbs my sense of fairness so I dont visit anymore.
Whats left? Reddit? Snort!!!
Videos? Again each and every single SC related video is ripped apart in the comment sections demonstrating a raging war between opinions. You have blatant fanboys covering the "game", you have blatant haters ridiculing it and then you have a bunch of people who try to stay in the middle but are hated all the same.
You know how I made up my mind? Simply by observing the fans and community interact. I knew what to expect from Star Citizen because duh.....doesnt take much to watch a trailer or the CEO speech about "what we are trying to accomplish...." but watching people arguing about it is fascinating and shows very quickly that there is a drastic difference in perceived quality. The game is either "great" or a "pile of trash". Often the difference becomes extreme (better then most released AAA games already) because you have experience and can evaluate other AAA games.
And this is how the SCDF *BLEEPS* itself...by exaggerating to impossible levels which are as much away from reality as the next star is to ours. Once in a while you see a genuine newcomer asking the same old question and you watch the first response is "are you Derek Smart?" which you dont understand until you dig into it in order to make sense of it. And all of a sudden you are knee-deep in the mudhole that is Star Citizen. You dont want to be a part of it? Bohoo other people dont care. EDIT: I suggest digging into OldSchoolCmdr and his fairy tale on reddit. Its an eye opening example of how "neutral" people are not acceptable but immediately shoved to the "hater side"
Ty to stay as neutral as you want, you WILL be branded a fanboy or hater or whatever regardless what you write. On this forum....people have to face my actual posts and their content if they want to engage me and the whole thing isnt reduced to a schoolyard shouting match.
How is it that simple questions like "is it out yet?" are perceived as "hate" or "troll attempts" (dont get me wrong...some most certainly are) immediately? It must be that
one side of the argument is really tutu-hurt by now and it shows in the immediate readiness to turn ugly or bark.
Star Citizen is a done deal for me. I made up my mind and I dont give the project a snowballs chance in hell but I make my decision from a 2012 standpoint. I didnt allow CiG to brainwash and "adjust" me or I didnt come late to the party as many who cant make any sense of the hostility being flung around. What reason do I have to stick around? Well its the community of course. I dont care a lot about the trolls and shills in this place but the replies by many are interesting, demonstrate linguistic skill as well as driving a certain point home in forum-accepted brutality that I can only learn from. I dont distinguish between the message or opinion. Else I could stay with any of the hate sites. We had SC defenders in the past I honestly enjoyed reading even tho I didnt agree with them. Actual coherent logical thinking and clear expression tho....its hard to find online nowadays and the FD forum with this threads oldtimers is refreshing and a place I like because of it.
I really dislike people who only challenge but never provide anything of their own and while I cant be bothered to reply to them because frankly....they are a waste of my time....others do and I admire that. Going through the motions writing the exact same thing AGAIN just in different words without becoming hostile or frustrated...it truly is a quality I would like to call my own but I guess theres a reason why I m not a teacher....
Make no mistake. A lot of people in this thread are here solely for the laughs and simply try to trigger another erruption of back and forth for their own amusement. Star Citizen in general is a perfect playground for trolls of all colors because of how easy you can trigger either side depending on the place you go to. Personally I like to see how this thread mostly keeps its sanity and refrains from open mudslinging and if it gets too bad the moderator team is on its toes to push a few buttons.
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