What Level of Interactivity Should Exist Between Platforms on the Forums?
#1
Posted 07 July 2016 - 08:09 AM
I'm going to look at a few possibilities for forum structure that will provide differing levels of interaction between playerbases on all platforms.
1. The most open version of the forums has all users posting in the same sections, with only one subforum dedicated to each platform's individual issues. This would allow for the most connectivity between players.
2. Keep the current division, but allow users of all platforms to comment (not post) in each other's sections. Great work has been done in the PC community in guides and artwork. It would be a shame for the PS and XBOX communities to lose out on this. The knowledge of the PC playerbase in general deserves to be shared across platforms. This forum structure would allow of this to happen while maintaining separate spaces.
3. Each platform has their own area and all platforms have access to some sort of "intermediary" type subforum where they can compare experiences and share knowledge.
4. The current Caste level division where the masterrace is hidden away from the peasants in order to prevent our evil ways from corrupting the innocents.
Personally I prefer 2.
Questions? Comments? Ideas? You know where to leave them:)
GGs.
Merl
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#2
Posted 07 July 2016 - 08:16 AM
I am for 1.
We are all playing the same game, no? Guides are not PC exclusive, technical help can go across platforms as probably alot of us are playing on PC and console as well.
Additionally, it contributes to the community growth and exchanging information, even if it is just showing your e-peen, always helps to grow a strong community which (IMO) made Hawken survive the two 'long silence' centuries.
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#3
Posted 07 July 2016 - 08:25 AM
one "technical support" subsection for each platform
one "clan" subsection for each platform
the rest of the forum should be shared.
Everything open to read.
My experience from UBIsoft forum who do it that way, is that it's clear, simple, quite open, and the mod team seems to be able to manage the trolling.
The only point is that actual PC version is different from console version, so there could be a "hawken beta general discussion" subsection.
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#4
Posted 07 July 2016 - 08:28 AM
Of everything, RLD segregating the forums probably pisses me off the most. I'm pretty convinced they did it mostly* because they thought we would give the console players a bad impression of the game (Pro tip to RLD: you didn't need us to do that for you).
*I'm sure there were other "reasons."
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Posted 07 July 2016 - 08:31 AM
Despite the value a wealth of experience from PC hawken community about the last pc patch...
If you have a handful of new players seeking to build a community around a platform, it cannot be helped by an ocean of voices drowning them out, or raining on the parade before the floats are built and the costumes are sewn.
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#7
Posted 07 July 2016 - 08:31 AM
its complicated merl and probably has to due less with any sort of segregating or sequestering of various communities, and more to do with technological implications of cross platform forum integration, when you dont even have cross platform or a true finished multiplatform game
hell so what if you need 2 different accounts for the forums, if you need 2 different accounts just to play on the 2 different versions of the game
this isnt overwatch and they arent blizzard, so dont expect battle.net to come riding in here on a horse to save the day so that we can all QQ in the same shitty hole together
Edited by ArchMech, 07 July 2016 - 08:33 AM.
don't mind me, i'm just on a crusade against humanity, by the end of my lifespan earth's population will be 8 billion+ trolls
#8
Posted 07 July 2016 - 08:32 AM
Despite the value a wealth of experience from PC hawken community about the last pc patch...
If you have a handful of new players seeking to build a community around a platform, it cannot be helped by an ocean of voices drowning them out, or raining on the parade before the floats are built and the costumes are sewn.
That definitely rings true, good point.
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#9
Posted 07 July 2016 - 08:38 AM
Can someone confirm if any sections of this forum are accessible from both a PC account and a XB1 account?
Or are all areas totally segregated between XB1 and PC?
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