Players! You are not real!, Another disgusting lie Options

[Sikret]

While I understand that these people are really envious of Improved Anvil's quality and popularity, I really didn't expect them to go so far to write such disgusting lies:

He writes:

whereas this can't be proven unless I had access to the BWL database (to cross-check IPs), I strongly suspect that the fanbase is at least partially astroturfed.

Hilarious!

All of the people who have sent praising post about IA are known people who have used the same nicknames in all forums for years (see Sorcerer's place for example).

He continues:

As a semi-proof, you don't see people posting praise this often at no other mod forum.

Well, that's because:

1- Improved Anvil is the only bugfree big mod.
2- Improved Anvil adds so many new quests and new content to the game.
3- Improved Anvil has high quality (= no bugs, no CTDs, good tactical challenges, new encounters, new monsters, expanded strongholds, Item randomizer and so on)

Instead of deducing the natural consequence that players really like IA, the envious modder has decided to conclude that these posters are not real (i.e. it is me who is posting here with different nicknames to praise my own mod!!)

He also claims that we delete criticisms which is another lie. We have only deleted insulting or trolling posts in the past. Constructive and polite criticisms have never been deleted; some of the topics (a minority of them not all of them) have been closed after a while but none of them have been deleted (even a degree of rudeness has been tolerated and even though some posts have been tactless and insulting enough to deserve being deleted, we kept them).

Where is the modding community going to?

My suggestion to them is to make a better mod than IA if they can. In that case, players will send praising posts to their forums. No more disgusting lies and accusations please. I am fed up with such lies.

This post has been edited by Sikret: Sep 4 2007, 08:57 AM

[Baronius]

There are two possible reasons why someone loves to enter such "discussions" (I refer to the one in G3) with idiot posts. Note: I'm not talking about those who told their opinion -- positive or negative, doesn't matter -- in a respectful form.

1. Primitive, bored ppl who need/enjoy the strain, the fight, the "drama". I just call them "empty".

2. Envious to IA. For its success and because IA doesn't meet their "standards". Because they are so self-confident in the perfectness of their "standards". Just see the Bioware forum post of CamDawg, where he calls IA's SoA HLA abilities "silliness". Why is it silliness that high-level enemies have HLAs in SoA too? High level is high level. Do enemies have a label on their forehead "I'm SoA villain" or "I'm ToB badguy"? CamDawg probably has a counter-argument, but does this give right to anyone to call the other side "silliness"? Silliness? Why not a matter of approach? If you call something "silliness" instead of "IMO...", it just reflects that you are limited. Limited in imagination, and unable to respect others' work.

Fortunately, there is nothing to worry about. And that's the important. There is a saying in Hungarian, I don't know its correct counterpart in English but it sounds like: "Let them boil in their own soup."