No company has the balls to do it any more. Game companies , on the other hand, do depending on the game. For example MSG 4 and GTA IV both sold extremely well for late 2nd quarter releases.
Absolutely. Spring would be the ideal time to launch a new system.
Last time that happened was the Saturn and we all know how that ended up though it was really Sega's fault. I still think it would have survived longer had they kept the original launch date a week before the PSX. Dumb move backfired. I wanna say I remember the PSX selling more units in one month than Saturn did in the 4 months leading up to the PSX launch.
The whole redesign was rushed, but my understanding was that at a fundamental level the old site was just coming apart at the seams and was being held together by nothing but hope. Better to be on the lower floors of a building that is still being added on to, than on the top floor of one that is crumbling beneath your feet.
Yeah, I got the same feeling reading various e-mails. Still why scrap UCB's and Unions? They couldn't add them with a new site? Even if you couldn't transition the old one's over why not just let people make new ones then?
In other news, holy X1 review embargoes this morning. I think I am finally caught up!
@Jacanuk: Trust that you all aren't the only ones frustrated with the things going on. I am trying to be patient with the new changes just because i know what it's like migrating to a whole new platform. But it just seems like all too much going on for the admin team to handle. Definitely seems like decisions being made from the folks who don't spend any time in the forums.
Forgot to ask you. Can you post while at work or no? We still have a date Wednesday night correct?
Personally, I'd have preferred that the entire new site had stayed in beta for longer, to avoid features being lost while they reimplement them, as well as weeding out the widespread bugs prior to actual release.
Yeah, in a perfect world that would be great but they wanna roll out new things as fast as humanely possible and sadly that means not much testing. Supposedly certain people and Mods had about a 30-45 day window to report things but my guess is either most didn't report anything at all or nobody fixed anything that was reported.
This place is a shell of what it once was and why you will only see me post right here. I keep this thread bookmarked so I don't have to see the mess the forums are now.
In practice it certainly has gone horribly wrong..Randolph got hit by another bug on top of the general karma system flaws unfortunately, otherwise he'd have been back and able to post shortly after c_rake noticed. The concept of +1 per flag and then -1 when it's acted on seems sound, but with such a low cap (10+ = forum banned) compared to the sheer amount of spam/adbots GS gets, and then the bug of it not always reducing the karma by 1 for the reporter when the report is acted upon kinda breaks things. Sure we can (well, normally we can) manually correct karma to deal with it, but the system should be robust enough to not require something like that if it has the ability to temporarily (and silently) ban users from forum activity. Imagine the chaos that would ensue if it was the -1 karma per day part that wasn't working. Something should probably be done about the cap, and the -1 when a report is acted on rather than ignored needs to work reliably too. I don't think it needs scrapping altogether or anything though, it's just a flawed implementation atm.
Honestly I know I am speaking from being gone about a year and a half but ONLY 2 names come to mind that abused the system with too many/harmless reports and they were always dealt with accordingly so why start this whole new karma system over 2 people(unless the Mods found it happened at least by 100 or more people in that year and a half I was gone)?
This reeks of something the "higher ups" came up with that do NOT post on the forums themselves. You need to be involved in a community if you are going to create systems/rules....period!
So I can finally post again. I flagged a bunch of spam posts a few days ago, and something got messed up with the (ill advised and all around terrible idea) karma system. The posts were all deleted, but the karma I got from flagging them was not removed. So I was essentially banned for the last several days for trying to be helpful. Not an encouraging experience. Thanks to C_rake for actually responding to me, I tried PMing an admin as well and got completely ignored. (wonderful customer service right there) My enthusiasm is considerably dulled overall right now.
I thought it sounded like a good idea when the admins introduced us to the karma system (seemed like a good idea to keep the abusive reports and trouble makers at bay). But after this, I'm not so sure. It backfiring like this is just frustrating.
Sounds like this will make people NOT report things at all and why you got more problems overall with spam and whatnot.....
@Dracula68 You're not the only one man. I've been listening to their last new album recently, Vol. 1, and it's amazing, so I'm stoked about the second album, needless to say!
I pretty stoked. 5 more long days to go!
@Metamania said:
I received confirmation from Gamestop and they informed me that my PS4 has been shipped. Now it's only a matter of time. :)
Hopefully all of you enjoy it! First time in my life I am not grabbing consoles on launch. Too many games for PS3, PS2 and even PSX do I have. Though I did upgrade my phat PS3 BC unit to a Slim last December so I am SOOL when it comes to the PS2 and PSX games now.....
I'll get a PS4 in a few years I'm sure and hopefully be the beneficiary of an awesome Black Friday bundle deal.
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