Online petitions do not work thread.

[Dodece]

Online petitions never work unless four things occur. First the idea must be feasible. Second the petition must have a dedicated site. Third the petition process must have longevity. Forth the petition site should advocate letter writing. All together this is not a place to be putting together online petitions. Not only is it completely fruitless, but it is meaningless.

A minute chance that something might work is not a justification to do something. You want to get a game made here is what you do. Set up a site for the petition. Place a link to said site in your signature. Finally be creative and show the developer the conviction. For example have every signature require a donation to a charity. When you have twenty thousand people sign a petition and donate ten dollars to save the rain forest that tells a developer that people are seriously interested. The important thing is that signing the petition needs to be time consuming rather then a minute fill in the blank process.

Regardless these forums are the absolute worst place to run a petition, because the debate swirls around the console war itself. So posters will sign for a game to come to their platform even thought they would have no intention of making the purchase. Simply for the reason that it would help the console they happen to be loyal to.

I think the two dozen petitions we see every month while not a terrible hassle also just serve as filler. A offense worth banning possibly, but perhaps these threads should be relegated to the off topic forums. That would actually be doing the threads a favor.