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[Pacifien]

An Open Post to the Moderators/Forum Maintainers

I am writing this post on behalf of the many posters of this forum who have participated in what can be described as the strategy threads of the Mass Effect games.

A couple months ago, threads concentrating on the discussion of Mass Effect characters were moved to the "Mass Effect 2 Character, classes and Builds" forum by popular demand of the many participants of the "Mass Effect 2 Campaign and Storyline" forum. While this provided some satisfaction to the posters of the latter forum, it simply moved the problem to a less frequented forum with a completely different set of posters who now felt they were being pushed aside for a series of threads that seemed incongruous with the atmosphere that had been created on the forum to that point.

For those who may be reading this who would like to point out that "Mass Effect 2 Character" is in the title of the forum, please consider these facts:
1. The original welcome post by Chris Priestly described the forum as follows: "This forum is for fans to discuss their characters, the different classes in the game and your suggestions/opinions on how to create the best builds for the game."
2. The stickies on the forum at the time of the move were one about Vanguard tips, Mass Effect 2 Gameplay Data, and class Gameplay Videos.
3. The Dragon Age forums also have a forum specifically for the discussion of their class builds and playstyles: no discussion of the support of certain Dragon Age characters to be found.

Why do the posters to a strategy forum wish to be separated from discussion on characters? There is a distinct difference in a person playing a game for strategic reasons than those who play a game for storyline and the characters. Such disparate methods of gameplay draw different players to different threads with only the occasional overlap. While discussion of various characters are contained within their respective threads, discussions of strategy traverse multiple threads. A person looking to discuss their favorite character need find only one thread, a thread they can bookmark. To find strategy threads of interest, a poster must wade through at least a dozen different character threads to find various threads specific to strategy. It is frustrating, somewhat disheartening, and posters interested in discussing strategy have expressed less desire to maintain the discussions.

Please consider the separation of the strategy discussion from the characters discussion again. And thank you.

For those who agree with this sentiment, feel free to respond to this thread and I will continue to add names to the original post. If we can show the moderators we are not such a small minority (I hope), perhaps there will be a change.

Signed,
Pacifien
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Modifié par Pacifien, 09 août 2010 - 07:13 .

[Stanley Woo]

Discussion of forum issues should be posted to the Social.bioware.com Site Help forum. We also don't respond very much to online petitions. Something to keep in mind when discussing this further.



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