On unpinned threads, WG EU attitude towards forumites

jabster, on 23 March 2015 - 08:46 PM, said: To put it simply what was the point of unpinning the topics in the first place as I fail to see how this could have been in anyway considered an improvement - we're too busy doing other more important things but we'll make just enough time to pee forum regulars off. What's even stranger is at the same time saying that the forum regulars have to help make the forum better. Well if the forum staff aren't doing that why should we bother?


krazypenguin, on 23 March 2015 - 08:47 PM, said: It's not like WG couldn't afford 1 full timer to manage the English speaking forum section, the largest section of the forums and the most commonly spoken language in the EU.  At least make an effort.   Go see the DayZ forums - yes their active user base is much smaller than WoT's yet they somehow manage to have significantly more active admins and bad posts/threads get hammered immediately and offenders actually get punished.


Schmeksiman, on 23 March 2015 - 10:57 PM, said: Okay but if such a problem existed why was it even announced in the first place? Also Reddit Q&A you did was well accepted, but sadly that only happened twice if I'm correct. Hunt us down is the same case as I mentioned above, we'd rather have something than nothing. I've never seen any of you in that event but it didn't matter to me, it was not something you expect but a small gesture that you care. Number of players doesn't change that, you chances of seeing one were always low but knowing there is a chance made you feel like you were doing it for the community. You choose if you want to hang out or not, I don't expect you to do so if you don't want to in your free time or when you have other business, but these days we only see moderators locking threads so from everything you've said the conclusion is your team is stretched too thin.


Schmeksiman, on 23 March 2015 - 10:57 PM, said: Not this part is simply unbelievable to me. You're not going to pin our threads because we, the community need to get a habbit of posting in them? We forumites need to promote good gameplay, share good stories, help each other and not complain? Did I read this right? You consider us to be the problem, the issue here, the reason why you unpinned those topics, the source of problems, you say we are the whiners here?!   Personally I've been helping every single person that asked a question, answering in the newcommers section, writing a full guide there, going against MM conspiracy theorists and haters, always tried to provide constructive feedback, honest answers and post correct information and that's the core problem? I hope other forumites write their list as well because I have seen nothing short of that from them as well and now this is labelled as something negative and not appropriate on the forum? Basically that's what you said, we only complain here and I can not disagree with you more on this matter.   We want this forum to be awesome, we want it to be friendly, constructive, helpful, a place where people are welcome to share their stories, questions and experiences but we need YOU on board, we need you to help us a bit, to make these goals easier to achieve, to at least show a little gesture saying thank you, not unpin our threads and call us whiners. Forumites are not some elitists, you don't need certain WN8 to join, certain number of battles, win rate, tanks, not even forum posts, anyone with a good attitude and willingness to join in is a forumite, from newbies to superunicums, it does not matter. So do you really think we don't deserve a few pinned threads or a section so we could be even more helpful and make this forum even more awesome? I find that hard to understand...


Sgt_Guffy, on 24 March 2015 - 09:00 AM, said: If WG staff do not have the time to spend on the forum then yes, taking into account the size of the WG empire, they need more staff. The don't have to be full time staff. They could work on a part time basis.  On some forums I've even known poachers turn gamekeepers where veteran forum contributors were asked to help on a voluntary basis. If Ectar wants members of the forum to discipline themselves and the quality of contributions to improve then that would be a way to do it.   Like many games, I think a lot of the veteran contributors have left to do other things, not because they are disgruntled with the forum. Players come and go, it is something that just happens on the internet.


Cobra6, on 24 March 2015 - 09:20 AM, said: Thanks for that massive wall of text explaining the situation, it indeed crit me for 9000 +1   Now, briefly on the quote I've highlighted: I was a supertester myself during that period and indeed there were some leaks, there were however leaks before that and there have been more leaks after EU supertester program was shut down. This indicates that it was not only the EU program that was leaking in the first place.   Secondly, if the leaks are happening anyway now without an EU supertest department you might as well re-open EU supertesting as it would not make a difference anymore. That way we can all continue to contribute to the further development of this game.