| trasharmdsister12 said: According to Rule 9:
You have repeated your opinion regarding Uncharted 4 and your discontent of its success (while simultaneously trying to undermine its success in other threads) a multitude of times:
And that's just doing a quick scan of your last 2-3 weeks of activity.
As for your defense of Rule 10, you could've used a number of games. Doom, Overwatch, GTA V; All the product of the AAA machine you have an issue with. Furthermore, the point could have been made without singling out any game. The post you made earlier regarding Odin Sphere could have stood on its own merits, and that would've strengthened it given the community's perception of you.
The point you were trying to make may have been spawned by the sales results, but the point itself has little to do with sales. It has to do with the industry at large being unsupportive of niche titles that you believe deserve more attention. By that metric I deem your opinion in that post irrelevant to the topic. As Rule 10 states "If you want to discuss something other than the thread topic, make your own thread."
Given I hardly ever visit the site anymore, you can be sure we hold no previous rapport or history of personal issues. In fact, in the grand scheme of things I even agree with your opinion that Uncharted as a series is a poor example for the industry to follow and attempt to emulate. But that is an opinion that I'd make a thread of explaining why I believe so and have one grand discussion. I would not constantly bring it up in pseudo related threads because that effort is fruitless in getting across your point; even if it's a good one. It serves only to irritate, as you've no doubt observed. Yet you keep doing it despite being advised otherwise by people who aren't out to get you. As mods, we don't like getting our hammers dirty (well... not our ban hammers anyways). We just want to come here and hang out and discuss video games like the rest of you. But if peoples' jimmies are needlessly being rustled we have to step in.
So I advise you, not as an all powerful, hammer swinging overlord, but as a fellow fan of video games - Stop it. Attempt to discuss the points you're trying to make without constantly riling people up. Your point about Odin Sphere is a great one and one that does need to be discussed at large in the community. A and AA development are at an all time low but these are the games that go on to become AAA. Without them, the industry suffers. Do your part shining light on those games by making threads about them and showing their merits. You can totally do that WITHOUT attacking anything.
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GTAV and DOOM are great games, I think it's great that they do well, although I would hardly say Uncharted 4 is comparable to GTAV in sales, or that DOOM is comparable to Uncharted 4 in sales. I have expressed my disappointment regarding Overwatch's success (or at least I think I have, can't remember). Those previous posts were regarding my personal opinion about Uncharted 4's quality and that's why I said it was disappointing. This thread I was talking about AAA vs niche games and the homogenization of gaming. Not really similar.
I would like to make a thread discussing what I said ITT, as I belive it is an issue to bring up, and a discussion to be had. Not so much about trying to draw attention to niche games, but having an intelligent discussion on where the industry is heading and how the AAA model will affect the industry. However, CGI now threatens to moderate me next time I bring it up, which I believe (just my opinion) stems from a personal beef he has with me, rather than a desire to uphold the forum rules.
I always support my arguments and will not just leave a trolling one liner just to rile people up and then never respond, but if someone gets upset by my opinions and discussions regarding game sales, I can't control that and they need to have better control of their emotions because I'm just having a civil discussion within the bounds of the rules.
