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Metal Boss
08-15-2006, 06:33 PM
Take a look over at 3drealms forums sometime, I mean an in depth look at the way their forums are moderated and set up, the prey forum specifically. It's very interesting to note the little negative response the game is getting over there right now, I made my honest opinion very public at how disappointed I was with the game, but my posts were deleted in the morning! Here is a link to the thread with the rather, peculiar poster...


http://forums.3drealms.com/vb/showthread.php?t=21001


A Few people in the thread were getting suspicious of this, including myself, thats when the moderator, Joe,posted a message;

"Don't automatically assume this isn't a rabid fan, the IP address is from somewhere in amsterdam :)"

after a few more questions to the OP about his strange behaviour, the thread seemed to be completely revamped an hour or so later! Including the abscence moderators message above, OK, ok, thats fine and dandy to have them hyping the game up on their forum and what not, but to moderate out negative response is just idiotic and rude.

I AM WILLIAM H. MACY
08-15-2006, 06:53 PM
Yeah I think a rabid fan from Amsterdam would ask in-depth market-research sounding questions on how many "units" you bought of the game.

He's just curious!

elwood731
08-15-2006, 10:37 PM
Sounds fishy. I can't imagine why anyone would buy two copies of this game? Maybe if it were Half-Life, which got rereleased a few times with new expansions packed-in, but for a brand new game? Maybe even Pokemon, but not some FPS. Sounds very fishy.

Kaijufan
08-15-2006, 10:39 PM
I could see someone buying the PC version and the 360 version, but why would anyone need more then that?

SilverPaw750
08-16-2006, 12:51 AM
Take a look over at 3drealms forums sometime, I mean an in depth look at the way their forums are moderated and set up, the prey forum specifically. It's very interesting to note the little negative response the game is getting over there right now, I made my honest opinion very public at how disappointed I was with the game, but my posts were deleted in the morning! Here is a link to the thread with the rather, peculiar poster...

I, also, have noticed the 3DRealms forums operate much like a communist country. I'm a memeber there (maximan), but have stopped posting for the most part for several reasons:

(a) If the 3DRealms staff doesn't like your post, they'll delete it. And the DNF/Prey forums are a joke. It's all people making topics like 'OMG SO LUV 3DREALMS" to suck up to the moderators.

(b) If you aren't one of the 'elite' or 'famous' group of 3dRealms forums posters (Ivan, ADM, Marimus, etc), people really don't care about what you post, and you won't get many replies.

(c) It's boring.


But, on the other hand, I do usually go there first if I need PC assistance - the posters there are really knowledgable and helpful with technical issues you may be having.

Overall, the community of the 3DRealms forums is a weird one I never was able to fit into nor enjoy that much.