Hey hey hey- I've been here lurking for far longer. I know the new ABK Switch 2 """news""" is old, but I get your point. Everything is news to someone no matter how old, especially if the media is just putting a new bow on it and claiming it's not a year old.
Exactly - certainly wasn't calling you (or anyone else) out - just that membership is increasing the Switch NG seems more and more imminent.
I think it's best for everyone to take it down a notch.
Agreed! As a casual outsider until the Switch era, it weirds me out how hostile the video game fan community can get over
anything.
Thanks for the warm welcome. Like
@carbvan , I largely dismissed the resurfacing of Activision stuff. I also made a suggestion that we shouldn't take the
content at face value.
And that was in response to someone who's not on your "new member" list. I know you didn't mean to call out any name (you were speaking broadly.. new members adding more discussion lately) - are we certain the last 5 pages worth of discussion on the resurfaced Activision stuff or so are largely due to the new members?
Forgive me if I was vague and generalizing. One of the things that happens is that it only takes one person to post something previously discussed for 10 old timers to jump in with the smackdown, and I include myself. As the community gets bigger, the pace of things is going to get faster, just as more people participate. I wasn't trying to suggest that "newbies talking about silly things" - I was saying "an increase in members is going to make the pace of discussions increase, rapidly."
I didn't look that closely and don't really care to but want to point out 1) for the most part, I think we collectively are already largely dismissive of the Activision stuff, and 2) that the discussion is probably inevitable, new and old members alike. Let's not drive a wedge between subsets of the community here.
Sorry that I made that impression. When I suggested "onboarding" I wasn't just meaning in terms of
information but "how the community operates." A new forum member is, in a sense, not a member of the community - this thread predating the existence of Famiboards - but a
prospective one. And I want to
welcome those people - which means not throwing the to the wolves of the old timers holding them to implicit standards buried in 2000 pages of forum text, 400 of which are in a different forum entirely.
I'm indifferent to the Activision discussion specifically, but you see consistently long time members piping in to say they can't keep up. As we get closer to the launch of the device a single thread for all Switch NG discussion
simply doesn't scale. We as a community should start thinking about that, and that's what I was trying to bring up, not drive a wedge between anyone.
It seems like the problem here might be, we're mad that Activision stuff is being resurfaced again, when in fact, the large majority of comments made so far is exactly just that.. being mad that it's being brought up. We all put ourselves in that cycle collectively and need to get out of that self-feedback cycle.
Sure - but again, I was trying to use the activision discussion as a jumping off point for talking about how the community operates in what is likely it's final, busiest 6-8 months.
This thread cannot be the location for hardware discussion, and the launch library, the naming discussion, the gimmick discussion, and every Switch NG leak and rumor. We're quickly approaching the period where the Switch NG discussion
is the Nintendo discussion, and one forum thread ain't gonna cut it. We need to talk about letting some of that discussion - like the BG3 chatter - live elsewhere. Not because it isn't valuable - but because it
is.