5/2/08: THE NIGHT GAMINGW WENT UP IN FLAMES

Poor bastards. ;D

Anyway, i stayed at gaming world for a while then some jerk kept messaging me saying that i was his cousin or something. I got scared and returned here to my home turf.

author=rcholbert link=topic=1012.msg14047#msg14047 date=1209884157

author=Karsuman link=topic=1012.msg14046#msg14046 date=1209884118
GW continues on its path to becoming...Gaming Ground Zero.

'cause it'll never be Something Awful, like it tries so hard to be. Honestly.

It may not be Something Awful, but it sure is something awful.

bahdum ching!!

author=ImmortalDreamer link=topic=1012.msg14067#msg14067 date=1209885329
I've been less active on GW for a couple months now. I'm just sick of all the elitism and double standards there.

We are even more elitist AND we have triple standards!

Goodbye and good riddance, imo. I haven't visited there in a while and only recently logged-in because I was informed that one of my "constituents" was spreading nasty rumors, and I wanted to see if he had PMed me or made a topic or SOMETHING to verify what he was saying before he did. Of course, he didn't, so.

I mainly just keep to myself now, so whatever. I mean, it's more traffic to here and to whatever other sites the refugees fly to. As long as quality doesn't start going down the shitter like it was over there (with a few exceptions), I'm game.

See site feedback.


http://www.gamingw.net/forums/index.php?topic=71518.0

I cannot really post the whole thread because the thread grew to seven/eight pages overnight.

But again, enough about other sites' back alley business.

Steel and co. attempted to mandate that G&D be reorganized in accordance with their own ideals and stances on the community, utterly disregarding the views of those actually affected. They've continually discriminated against RPG-Maker-developed projects as well as those that lack "original content/visuals" on the basis of what I can only assume is them wanting the mainstream community looking good on a superficial level.

Also, time spent bickering about GW is better utilized improving RMN and it's collective activity. :)

author=Mr.Nemo link=topic=1012.msg14153#msg14153 date=1209929654
Uh. What the hell? I think GW is a great community.

I liked it too, I liked it when I first arrived there a few years ago; but somewhere alone the line some of the staff felt the need to turn into controlling, condescending douche bags.

I still like a great deal of the people who go there (which is why I've stayed with it) but every time I watch some staffers (whether they have this power or not) post it just makes the bile rise in my throat.

GW doesn't have an obligation to cater to anybody though. If they really want to make these changes, they're entitled to it even if it isn't in the best interests of the G&D sub-community.

Does anybody remember the old RPG Arena/Devscape website? It was about as big as GW a few years back and was actually one of the first project hosting web pages. The user base was primarily RPG Maker until the administrator decided to exclude all projects from that medium, permanently crippling the community. GW isn't going to be doing something like that, but if there were a decision to limit projects drastically like some have proposed then game development activity is going to plummet.

I don't think they are doing either, I think they are trying to discourage the use of it, though. Regardless of the "You haven't read/understand what we are trying to say!"