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Welcoming new forum members (and issues for established BSNers)

Débuté par SofaJockey , oct. 31 2014 10:20

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#176
Inquisitor Recon

Posté 14 mars 2015 - 10:44

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This is the downside, but compared to the social platforms. This place has a smaller flow of information and when it comes to the social mechanics and usability, other platforms are just so much better.

There were social mechanics here before they leveled up the experienced and removed them.

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#177
Guest_TrillClinton_*

Posté 14 mars 2015 - 10:45

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There were social mechanics here before they leveled up the experienced and removed them.

The social mechanics on the previous site were definitely better.

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#178
LPPrince

Posté 14 mars 2015 - 10:48

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The social mechanics on the previous site were definitely better.

I didn't even make use of them much and I still feel that is the case.

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#179
Fast Jimmy

Posté 14 mars 2015 - 11:03

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Yeah. I'm bummed that Bioware's been using social media more to get word out. It makes sense, you reach more people that way, but come here first to your most dedicated and let us in on it ahead of other places, give us something to work with. Usually WE have to grab it from out there and bring it here.

Then there's the fact that the forum had its social media focus removed and Bioware pretty much went with it. At least it feels that way. Its not the case since they still come here, but it just feels...not like it used to.

See, I'm not convinced that social media is more effective.

Sure, you have a larger base of possible viewers, but social media still requires some pretty focused efforts to get connected. Let's look at Twitter - not only do you need to have a Twitter account set up, but you'd also need to be someone consciously deciding to follow not only @bioware and @dragonage/@masseffect, but then you'd need to follow people like Mike Laidlaw, Mac Walters and/or Aaryn Flynn (not to mention some of the dozens of other random Bioware employees who have identified themselves over the years) to get the news the team is putting out, such as Laidlaw's suggestions on workarounds for common bugs.

Knowing who the lead designer of a game is, let alone following them on a social media site, is NOT a large subset of people. I'd say social media followers represent the more loyal and devoted Bioware followers rather than the forum - simply because it requires some low-level stalking skills to find the data sources. And stalking kind of actually mirrors some of the level of obsession some on the DA:I forums have taken with the dev celebrity status mentality.

I can understand why a developer would rather use social media - it captures their most sycophantic fans and is a perfect venue to not really communicate anything of substance other than fanning hype flames or linking other stories/events. It's just a shame, since some fans actually WOULD like to communicate with the company, not just be crazily waiting for the latest crumbs of information from someone's personal social media account.

Again - that might not be fair. But it is how I feel.

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#180
Fast Jimmy

Posté 14 mars 2015 - 11:08

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The social mechanics on the previous site were definitely better.

I don't inherently begrudge them from removing those features, because they were (while a lot of fun), a really tricky venue to monitor for bullying or nasty behavior behind people's back. But they really should have worked to put something else in place to allow people to feel like a part of a group of friends instead of just removing everything. Or worked to get involved and engage the community, not build a new forum and then not post in it yourself more than a dozen times.

Just my two cents.

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#181
Seraphim24

Posté 15 mars 2015 - 04:28

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I'm cool with Bioware's lads and lasses, but the DA section sometimes gets nuts over the most ridiculous of things. A Bioware dev can say something like, "I ate cheese this morning" and it'll draw insane amounts of love and attention;that gets old fast. I want something relevant to the games I'm playing with a lighter dose of the stuff like that.

Right now it seems more like its all about that stuff and less about the games. Or the games get shoehorned into conversations about random stuff. Its weird. I felt the dynamic was way better back in the early Mass and DA days, especially around the pre-Mass 2 period. THOSE were some good days.

Whoa I didn't mean like that.

Let me put it this way, I feel like there's all this effort and energy focused on characters and worlds and whatnot, but I'm often just as interested in offhand comments about like, credit bureaus or something, or Euopean vs American style municipal governance, like kinda boring seemingly sorta stuff. Non-entertainment non-game sort of things.

I don't mean like, what tie they're wearing or something. I guess I'm just saying people sometimes have a lot of things to say and sometimes it's the stuff they don't think is important that can be interesting to other people and the stuff they think is more important isn't as interesting.

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#182
LPPrince

Posté 15 mars 2015 - 04:30

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I don't inherently begrudge them from removing those features, because they were (while a lot of fun), a really tricky venue to monitor for bullying or nasty behavior behind people's back. But they really should have worked to put something else in place to allow people to feel like a part of a group of friends instead of just removing everything. Or worked to get involved and engage the community, not build a new forum and then not post in it yourself more than a dozen times.

Just my two cents.

Believe me, the backhand stuff still happens here. I was made aware of that by someone last year.

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#183
DuckSoup

Posté 17 mars 2015 - 08:45

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I've been here since late 2008/early 2009. I took a break when the site changed, but it's good to be back. I miss the newsfeed as it was, but it almost feels like the old days again.