Why wouldn't you want the forums to be active?

Some of you may remember.. there was a time when people lit these forums up with memes and pointless posts in order to earn points and badges. It drove activity and traffic. Now, the forums are a few replies a day. If gamification drives traffic, why wouldn't you want that?

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darthaden

We have the dev blogs and streams that can spark conversation for a few days but other then that there really isn't much to discuss on here atm. Once more people start getting access to the testing and the NDA gets lifted I'm sure these forums will light up fast

Varkun

darthaden wrote: »

We have the dev blogs and streams that can spark conversation for a few days but other then that there really isn't much to discuss on here atm. Once more people start getting access to the testing and the NDA gets lifted I'm sure these forums will light up fast

The above is one of the main reasons there is not as much activity here there simply is not a huge flow of new information at the moment. This will change in time.

Atama

Case in point: We have so little to talk about, we decide to have a thread on how little there is to talk about.

tugowar

The point I was trying to make it as we should have badges and roles and the activity/leaderboard back

perseus01

I don't want to go boxing a Royalty staff member or anything...

My point I was trying to make is that people are so blatantly arrogant nowadays you can already see the outcome. Pig-headed opinions that you gotta keep making puns to get around and ponzi-scheme ideas that have no base. The lack of intelligence and creativity harbors no real estate in the end, so it fails gain again and again. Ofcourse I have no basis to back this up, but just look at Ebay. Members followed by 20 different collections accounts and bidding on my shit.....I can't even sell nothing. I am just observing real life scenarios and putting the puzzle together.

tugowar

Quick point of clarification - "Member, Phoenix Initiative, Royalty" means I'm just an average gamer who has spent an ungodly amount of money on a video game; not staff.

This post has the [Staff] tag on it because @StevenSharif commented above.

perseus01

Hey, well thank god.

Atama

perseus01 wrote: »

Hey, well thank god.

In this thread Steven said he reads the forums, so I think he got your thanks.

Nagash

we used to have a star rank back in the day and a leader board that should peoples activity which was a nice what to keep the activity going. that and an activity page

unknownsystemerror

Nah, the leaderboards just caused people to do stupid shit like 3 word and 4 word story to farm post counts and likes. You had people create alt accounts to be able to post reactions on their own threads as another way of gaming the leaderboards. Sadly we have turned the corner in development here, where everyone is more about rabblin about what they want versus discussing what Intrepid has put forth as coming.

tugowar

Yeah who would make a four word story post. What a loser

Wandering Mist

Jahlon wrote: »

tugowar wrote: »

I like to post the controversial stuff to generate discussion. And here we go.

Jahlon wrote: »

Because you don't want to have to monitor a forum that gets filled with a bunch of trash

Isn't that the same argument for giving Asmongold an alpha 1 key? "Any traffic is good traffic."

Not exactly

Giving Asmo a key will generate a lot of traffic to the game.

But having to babysit the forums is a boring job as a moderator. The old forums were like the wild west and we had some pretty vile people.

True, but that was at a time where the community wasn't really established. The thing about moderation is it comes mostly from the community, NOT the moderators themselves.

Amist

I miss the "LOL" reaction

Noaani

unknownsystemerror wrote: »

Nah, the leaderboards just caused people to do stupid shit

Honestly, I don't see the point in leaderboards on forums either.

All it would do is make people think the forums are a game in itself.

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