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Edit: I don't care anymore. I'm annoyed and depressed and do not wish to continue spamming this thread



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dsister44 said:
Carl2291 said:

I wont troll it, il just get it locked. And an admin has that power... They can use it if they wish.

Wasn't that thread before the new (and awesome) rule was put into action?

Oh, come on you know you want to. Blaznhead has already said that if I ever made a thread bout Metacritic scores then he can troll it relentlessly 

Yes, but this thread says nothing about which forum a thread should go.  So it shouldn't have changed since this rule was announced

Even if i want to... I wont.

Well, we need to ask Naz about it when he see's this... So...

@Naz

Does it matter if a multiplat game video/info is posted in a specific forum. eg - non-PS3 specific Final Fantasy 14 news being posted in the Sony forum? Should it be in Gaming? Should the thread be locked?



                            

Forums should be correct, but he was directly quoting a news article when he made that thread title and put it in that forum, so it's fine.



naznatips said:

You can:

Call a game that's on one console and PC or handheld a "console exclusive."*

Excuse me, but I think the term you are looking for is "single-console excusive".

 

Games that are released on both consoles and PC are not "console only"(that console exclusive would technically mean in itself). They are "exclusively on a single console", "only on a single console"

 

I think it would be better for everyone to put this wording in the CAN'T list as well, and replace it with "single-console exclusive", or this particular wording will become another source for semantics arguments. A quick google search for the term reveals that a great number of Internet users, (mostly pc gamers) use it in the traditional form (as in: "Force Unleashed was announced for PC so it is no longer a console excusive"), while many others use it as you did in the OP,  and the two meanings are contradictory, almost opposites to each other, leading to lots of confusion.

Or even if you don't want to ban the term, banning the opposite, technically/grammatically correct one seems a bit weird.

 

 



If you read the thread you'd see that I noted the term console exclusive has an (obvious) qualifier before it. i.e. the name of the console. 360 console exclusive, PS3 console exclusive, etc.



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Im fully in support of this rule.



Tease.

Ok, i still don't get the "(console name) console exclusive" term, but at least we have now regulation about this, and i fully support the new rules...

Legitimate Q: If a game is only for 2 platforms of the same manufacturer without being late ports (Like Singstar or Twilight Princess), how it's defined???

For my part, i'll only say that the game is for (platform names), like "The game is for PC, 360, PS3, Wii and PS2", i'll only use the "exclusive" terms when i have no other choice...



The Anarchyz said:
Ok, i still don't get the "(console name) console exclusive" term, but at least we have now regulation about this, and i fully support the new rules...

Legitimate Q: If a game is only for 2 platforms of the same manufacturer without being late ports (Like Singstar or Twilight Princess), how it's defined???

For my part, i'll only say that the game is for (platform names), like "The game is for PC, 360, PS3, Wii and PS2", i'll only use the "exclusive" terms when i have no other choice...

You could call it 'Playstation exclusive', thats how Sony does it officially.



Tease.

Squilliam said:
The Anarchyz said:
Ok, i still don't get the "(console name) console exclusive" term, but at least we have now regulation about this, and i fully support the new rules...

Legitimate Q: If a game is only for 2 platforms of the same manufacturer without being late ports (Like Singstar or Twilight Princess), how it's defined???

For my part, i'll only say that the game is for (platform names), like "The game is for PC, 360, PS3, Wii and PS2", i'll only use the "exclusive" terms when i have no other choice...

You could call it 'Playstation exclusive', thats how Sony does it officially.

So Singstar is a Playstation Exclusive according to Sony, in that case Twilight Princess and FFCC: Echoes of Time would be "Nintendo Exclusives". That sounds about right.

Or in TP case it would be "Gamecube Exclusive" according to next-gen fanboys XD XD just joking...



Nice to see staff clarification on this matter. Seems pretty cut and dry to me, lets hope it works out for the best.