A preview of things to come?

[Atrocities]

IGN forums suck arse!

[Puke]

Thermo, if you really wanted to "show them how its done" you could have posted somthing helpful, mature, and informative.

[Timstone]

Hmm... interesting. I'm curious on how those litte kiddies will make their entrance here... if ever.
But giving them "our" link is a bit tricky. I hope it won't get crowded here.

[Thermodyne]

Puke said:
Thermo, if you really wanted to "show them how its done" you could have posted somthing helpful, mature, and informative.

Ummm……Who says I was trying to be any of that. It’s a crappy little (well actually quite big) forum mostly full of kiddy crap. The post fits the theme of the thread. My intent was to introduce them to the core community. Like everyone else, they can look around and lurk for a while and see how things are done around here. Lord knows, this place needs some new blood. Look at how few people are the authors of the majority of the posts around here.

[Thermodyne]

I’m surprised at you guys. MM has decided to take the game retail, which means that the majority of the people introduced to it will be kids. And this is “the” SE forum at the moment. It’s not a private forum purely reserved for the use of a few SE hardliners. I would imagine that SG would like it to generate traffic and new customers for their games. Thing are going to change, and a lot of the old guard won’t like the results, but such is life.

[AMF]

That's a good point. If we really want SE5 to succeed, then we need to be prepared for a lot of new players to the game - and, if this is THE forum for SE5 then it will need to be ready.

However, I am not sure this will be the official forum - given that Shrapnel will not sell SE5, I suspect that whichever company does will have an official forum - which may very well be less rigorous (in terms of friendliness, intellectual level, maturity, etc...)...

But, really this is all sort of premature...and I do sound a bit arrogant in the above statement...I am reminded of the truism that every generation thinks the newcomer generation is composed of losers/slackers who didn't suffer and grow like they did....so...nevermind! Progress is progress.

Thermodyne said:
I’m surprised at you guys. MM has decided to take the game retail, which means that the majority of the people introduced to it will be kids. And this is “the” SE forum at the moment. It’s not a private forum purely reserved for the use of a few SE hardliners. I would imagine that SG would like it to generate traffic and new customers for their games. Thing are going to change, and a lot of the old guard won’t like the results, but such is life.

[Ragnarok-X]

Yeah, but maybe Fyron will offer us a private board over at SE.net. Honestly, i dont like being crowed by kids, i like the offtopic, serious talk here quite a lot.

[AMF]

No! It's stupid. I'm the sooper master at this board! WAH WAH WAH! Me space emperor! Ypu POOPY HEAD! BOOYAH!



I agree.

Ragnarok-X said:
Yeah, but maybe Fyron will offer us a private board over at SE.net. Honestly, i dont like being crowed by kids, i like the offtopic, serious talk here quite a lot.

[Xrati]

I guess if change is inevitable! Bring on the kiddie crowd! But be warned that you may need more diapers then are available! The best way for them to get going here, is to start with a mature attitude. SOMETHING you will not be able to teach them over the internet. You are not their parents and all manners start at home.
Like I said before, "Don't give them the address here!" but now it's to late. Just like water seeks its own level, intelligent people/young adults will seek out an intelligent forum. Those are truly the people you'd want to stay around here! [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/icon43.gif[/img]

[Suicide Junkie]

While this may not be the official "official" forum, it will certainly remain the unofficial "official" forum, if you know what I mean