I leave the clutches of Bioware Social behind several months ago while I concentrate on other games, buy and finish Mass Effect 1 on the PS3 but stumble into some issues over this last week, come back to get some help and think, "Yes, I do believe it's time to fangirl over Garrus once more!", head on over to the aforementioned forum and find it closed with word from our Supreme Overlord Christ Priestly saying "There is entirely too much fighting, rule breakage and petty bickering in the threads here."
What gives? I realize 3 months is a long time on any forum, but anyone still about who knows what fighting was going on?
What happened to the Mass Effect 3 Character and Romance Discussion forum?
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Armdin
, déc. 24 2012 04:44
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Posté 24 décembre 2012 - 04:48
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Miranda civil war trolling in most of the threads and some "unusual threads" if you get my drift. All in all it is a shame since the romance and character parts of any bioware games are generally the best
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Posté 24 décembre 2012 - 04:49
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The Mad Hanar wrote...
Miranda fans.
Orly? Just that?
The Garrus forum was always pretty respectful. If it's true, seems a shame to close over one thread.
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Posté 24 décembre 2012 - 04:50
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garrusfan1 wrote...
Miranda civil war trolling in most of the threads and some "unusual threads" if you get my drift. All in all it is a shame since the romance and character parts of any bioware games are generally the best
Aw shucks, that is indeed a shame. :C
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Posté 24 décembre 2012 - 04:51
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Woe upon the primitives who has prevented peaceful, non-primitive discussion in Javik's thread.
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Posté 24 décembre 2012 - 05:08
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Better moderation should have been implemented instead of simply closing the entire forum.
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Posté 24 décembre 2012 - 05:17
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How can there be a civil war about Miranda?
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Posté 24 décembre 2012 - 05:19
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capn233 wrote...
How can there be a civil war about Miranda?
I take it you never visited that thread then. I ventured in from time to time, it always cheered me up.
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Posté 24 décembre 2012 - 05:31
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It's ridiculous that BW had to surrender a forum for three months now because they don't know how to moderate.
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Posté 24 décembre 2012 - 05:39
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It's always sad if a forum section gets locked, but I'm sure they had their reasons.
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Posté 24 décembre 2012 - 05:47
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mavqt wrote...
capn233 wrote...
How can there be a civil war about Miranda?
I take it you never visited that thread then. I ventured in from time to time, it always cheered me up.
That thread:
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Posté 24 décembre 2012 - 05:57
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I suspect they weren't keen on the spam and off topic natter heavy, and rather cliquish, character fan threads in general. Hence why they're in no particular hurry to reopen.
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Posté 24 décembre 2012 - 06:18
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And this is why we can't have nice things.
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Posté 24 décembre 2012 - 06:26
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What was the Miranda civil war about anyway? Sounds immature as **** if you ask me.
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Posté 24 décembre 2012 - 06:29
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Miranda just gets fans all fired up...
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Posté 24 décembre 2012 - 06:29
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Even with the Civil War, there was still no reason to close the entire forum
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Posté 24 décembre 2012 - 06:37
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MegaSovereign wrote...
What was the Miranda civil war about anyway? Sounds immature as **** if you ask me.
It all began with a vicious argument over what camera angle made Miranda's ass look best.
"This isn't about strategy or tactics," noted one poster. "We ogle, or we die"
Unfortunately, not everyone agreed, with other posters referring to the original poster as a "big stupid jellyfish", "cereal-stealer" and other, worse, names. It pretty much went downhill from there.
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Posté 24 décembre 2012 - 06:39
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I'm told it's due to some sort of schism between the Mirimancers, Taboo was probably somehow involved.
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Posté 24 décembre 2012 - 06:45
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Really? I was not aware of the civil war. I thought Bioware was now beginning to dismantle the RPG fan base to make room for the all the shooter fans and such and the Romance thread was the first to go.
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Posté 24 décembre 2012 - 06:49
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*Sadface*
It was us. The Miranda romancers...
The user known as Taboo was a big part of it. I know this because I was also heavily involved as well, to a lot of the same extent.
http://social.biowar.../index/14345382
I am truly sorry for contributing to getting that forum shut down for everyone. Especially the people of other characters who had a very respectful and sane group. They went to bed one day talking about Jack, the next day they were closed down.
The basic issue was that we a lot of us Miranda romancers have some strong, differing opinions. We were pretty much polarized in opinion with everything under the sun, even outside of ME. There are members of the group (I've learned my lesson. I keep my mouth shut and disappear when they say stuff) that for me, is literally impossible to find any sort of common ground with, and there is a particular member who has a tendency to look down his nose (wether he realizes it or not; I'm not saying that to be mean, but just the way he talks to people can be easily interpreted as this) at other posters of differing opinion.
We let those differences get the better of us. A lot of us are very strong minded and willed. The basic idea was that there was a so called ruling cabal of the Miranda page who enforced their opinion of Miranda, and that the group that I fell in disagreed and we separated completely from that group, again with an ambiguous motive to form our own cabal.
It was..... messy. And pretty bloody.
The two groups are pretty much like North and South Korea right now.
Also BW is trying to get rid of the RPG elements to their games, and the romance forum was the first to go. Plus, Priestly is a well known disliker of romance in games.
It was us. The Miranda romancers...
The user known as Taboo was a big part of it. I know this because I was also heavily involved as well, to a lot of the same extent.
http://social.biowar.../index/14345382
I am truly sorry for contributing to getting that forum shut down for everyone. Especially the people of other characters who had a very respectful and sane group. They went to bed one day talking about Jack, the next day they were closed down.
The basic issue was that we a lot of us Miranda romancers have some strong, differing opinions. We were pretty much polarized in opinion with everything under the sun, even outside of ME. There are members of the group (I've learned my lesson. I keep my mouth shut and disappear when they say stuff) that for me, is literally impossible to find any sort of common ground with, and there is a particular member who has a tendency to look down his nose (wether he realizes it or not; I'm not saying that to be mean, but just the way he talks to people can be easily interpreted as this) at other posters of differing opinion.
We let those differences get the better of us. A lot of us are very strong minded and willed. The basic idea was that there was a so called ruling cabal of the Miranda page who enforced their opinion of Miranda, and that the group that I fell in disagreed and we separated completely from that group, again with an ambiguous motive to form our own cabal.
It was..... messy. And pretty bloody.
The two groups are pretty much like North and South Korea right now.
Also BW is trying to get rid of the RPG elements to their games, and the romance forum was the first to go. Plus, Priestly is a well known disliker of romance in games.
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Posté 24 décembre 2012 - 06:49
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Killdren88 wrote...
Really? I was not aware of the civil war. I thought Bioware was now beginning to dismantle the RPG fan base to make room for the all the shooter fans and such and the Romance thread was the first to go.
I kind of hope they kill off the storyboards too..
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Posté 24 décembre 2012 - 06:53
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MegaSovereign wrote...
Killdren88 wrote...
Really? I was not aware of the civil war. I thought Bioware was now beginning to dismantle the RPG fan base to make room for the all the shooter fans and such and the Romance thread was the first to go.
I kind of hope they kill off the storyboards too..
Sorry..You misread me. I don't want the RPG aspects to go away. In fact I was a tad saddened when the thread closed. An to be honest that Idea of Bioware trying to remove the RPGers is just a crack pot theory of mine.
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Posté 24 décembre 2012 - 07:56
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bsn behaving badly. Nothing new there
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Posté 24 décembre 2012 - 07:57
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MegaSovereign wrote...
Killdren88 wrote...
Really? I was not aware of the civil war. I thought Bioware was now beginning to dismantle the RPG fan base to make room for the all the shooter fans and such and the Romance thread was the first to go.
I kind of hope they kill off the storyboards too..
Yeah it says something when the multiplayer forum is better behaved than the story forum
