I have been loosely following the development saga of CA's new game title, Medieval 2: Total War. I found a post today on one of their allied forums that I want to share. Normally I just ignore trolling, but having just posted about egregious whining in the Metaverse forum, I felt compelled to share this:
CA/Sega Bit Off More Than They Can Chew?Note how the OP sets you up beautifully with an abrasive title and then launches straight into a loosely-themed multi-paragraph rant. Next, people start to agree with him, then there is an attempt to voice a reasoned opinion; but blood is in the water and the mini-rants keep rolling on. Unlike this forum, there seem to be few people on that board willing to try to rein in the trolls.
There's been some nasty whining in the GalCiv II forums, and I hate to see it here. But after seeing the level of trash that goes on elsewhere, I have to conclude that our local whiners are amateurs by comparison.
I post this in hopes that it will illustrate how much better the GalCiv 2 forums generally are than others, and also the level to which a forum can sink if people let it do so.
Side note: Interestingly, Stardock gets a nice shout-out in that thread where somebody writes, "If you ever have played Gal Civ II that dev group seems to be the best ive seen yet."