megabeast37215 wrote...
holdenagincourt wrote...
I'm staying loyal to the one I've played well over 100 games with, and who was a big part of me starting to consistently play Gold back in early summer. Oh, now I'm getting mushy.
Seriously though, the recent trend toward threads about people rather than the game on this forum makes me concerned about the future of the game itself. It's also a bit mortifying.
I could go for some holdenagincourt threads.... 
So could I. Perhaps I'll revive Dearth of Asari Fashion Designers, or start a thread about a fashion-challenged Volus with incessant weight gain. I'm glad you appreciate my frivolous but hopefully entertaining threads.

Zero132132 wrote...
There isn't much left to discuss. Each week, we get good build ideas for new stuff, but some are just no brainers.
Haven't you been out of the game for a bit, though? Never see you on xbox live. Or maybe I have the wrong guy... you're Trip, right?
Yeah I'm at school and my XBox didn't come with me. I might bring it back after winter break if I know I'll have a TV at my apartment.
To some extent, topics have always been overproduced since the beginning. But we no longer have things like GodlessPaladin's threads on gameplay that served as forum gathering places, or the nerf/buff war threads that peaked in the weeks after Earth, or new MP idea threads like the Terminus one or Killahead's threads, or Lynx7725's enemy behavior thread. I miss how Mendelevosa's "The N7 Shadow Licks Ass!" thread brought all the regular users of this forum out of the woodwork to post 9 pages of hilarity.
These are anecdotal, but it would be difficult to produce actual data points without reading through and documenting every thread over the last 100 pages, and I'm not going to do that. This is just my impressionistic feeling of what's happening here.
Part of the problem is a lot of people have left the game, either temporarily or permanently, and maybe the newer people who've replaced them aren't Mass Effect fans in the same way they were, or maybe I feel uneasy because those older people had always been there when I was here and now I'm part of the older crop of players and I don't know who the new posters are.
There's also the thing how, we can talk about each other in more discreet and tasteful ways without making a thread blatantly comparing three players and their relative skill and worth, which smacks of mutual masturbation.