I�m so excited I can hardly sit still.. I�m actually standing and trying to type right now. Note, don�t bother. Doesn�t work.
To me, the launch of the forums kicks off the next stage in the life of Hawken. This game is significant. This community is significant. The support I�ve seen this community deliver to anybody and everybody is remarkable. Really. It�s a sense of honor I feel to have the opportunity to work with you.
We wanted to get these forums up as quickly as possible because, dude, it�s been too long. We�ll get the more official stuff hammered out in the coming days, but I believe the future of these forums will look something kinda like this:
- You can freely express your opinions and you�ll see people being constructive (of all the crazy things ;)
- You will see thoughtful feedback that intends to be professional
- You will find a well-organized list of highly-regarded, well-made community design proposals
- You will find the Dev team actively wrestling with how to integrate community design proposals into ongoing dev sprints
- You will make a set of friends you respect, even when you heatedly disagree with them
- You will see many other communities sprout up around the world, each reflecting similar ideals and growth
- You will see rage and drama and many a fuzzy bunny. And then you�ll see the same people coolly isolate the differences in assumptions, and then create a proposed solution, complete with tests�. Ok, now I�m preaching ;)
Seriously, this is gonna be good�