Byrdman wrote...
Unfortunately, any movement which is not organized from the beginning and lacks central leadership suffers from not being able to control the actions of its members. This is equally concerning when membership in a group/movement is based on one just claiming they are a part of it, and not say a registered member. While my signature makes it obvious I'm of the ending hating flavor, I have a few points about this whole debacle (both sides).
1. A couple of bad apples make everyone look bad. This applies to both sides. Some Re-Takers are really pushing the limits of even trolling, and are making the movement look awful. This is partially because there's no way to keep them in line or control what they say, since this isn't something you join by applying. One of Re-take (and other ... occupying..... ) movements strengths is anyone can say they're apart of it and voice their opinion. Its also one of its weaknesses. Personal attacks against the mods and Bioware staff need to stop. We wont get anywhere with it. I don't mean to let up on the pressure, but telling them to kill themselves is not ok. Disparaging remarks wont get them or anyone else on our side. We have to say civil and respectful. I know its hard, emotions are running high, and we've got everyone from forum trolls to IGN reviewers I've never heard of or cared about calling us out, trying to get us to lose our cool, and if we give them what they want we'll crash and burn. Don't be the guy/gal that stands up in the middle of a peaceful sit in and throws the Molotov cocktail.
However, this doesn't mean this is only one sided. In every thread I read, the pro-ending folks have about the same ratio of of crazy, hateful speech spewing people as well. Both sides have personal attacks, condescension, and a lack of civility. This isn't a one way street, and both sides need to chill the frak out with respect to each other. I partially think its just trolls on both sides, but I'm not so optimistic. I get it, you guys like the ending. We don't. You can keep your ending, please let us have ours. I promise we can have ice cream later (I wont, cause I'm lactose intolerant, but I'll let you enjoy yours).
2. The current press releases that have been fed to us over the last couple of days tend to come off with a bit of condescension. Now granted I think its just because its PR speak and they have to cover themselves, and constantly reminding us that the game got all the perfect reviews during each one makes it seem as though they're not really intended for the fans, but more the press watching, which makes it feel as though we ultimately aren't important. You have to remember Bioware, we were your "best friends" 16 days ago, and I want nothing more to once again have a friend in you. I'd love to reup my SWTOR subscription and buy tons of DLC (not ending changing dlc, that imo should be free) for ME3 and the ones I missed for ME2 and play through them. I'd even go back to looking forward to DA3 again. But each time I'm told that I'm part of a vocal minority and you got a bunch of perfect scores it seems belittling. Please don't do that, I want to like you and give you all my video game money again (I'm not being sarcastic here, I even told friends to join SWTOR because it was your game, and you could always be trusted). I get that you need to be upbeat about your game because, well, you have to sell it and make money. But your strongest allies ever are us. We're your core. We pre-ordered your games, stayed up late on a work night (I had to get up at 4am the next day for work, still managed to play 3 hours of ME3 after the midnight release).
3. Hold the line. With the current press release, a lot of threads have been saying that "Well, we won." We haven't, but we are putting cracks in the wall. Each new statement is a little more ground gained, but until we have a statement with a timeline, actual information about a plan, or some other concrete news, we can't ease up. Pressure isn't the same as assault. We have to keep it civil and push for what we want. If we can just keep it civil, they wont be able to ignore us. Our call to action is Hold the Line, because we can't falter, we can't back down, we can't be dishonorable.
Thats just my thoughts.
Actually I suggested several times that re-takers mobilize outside of Bio forums. that'd be an enviornemnt you could control. Than you could employ a directed, impactful message.
Ofcourse that got turned into you want us to leave blah blah.
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