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Legba> I'm in complete agreement with fridge on point the first. I doubt many people here bat an eyelid at the thought of spending four or five quid for a couple of hours' entertainment at the cinema, or a tenner on a paperback. Of the four games I've started specific threads for, I picked one up for a tenner and another for a fiver. The third can probably be grabbed new for somewhere between those two prices and the fourth was a brand new title that cost £27 and has already lasted me over ten hours. The 'games are expensive' thing - well, they are if you're comparing them to other items on a cost per unit basis, but that doesn't hold up when you consider their lifespan.
And that's a thread that could be started, right there.
Anyway, it's not currently a question of a lack of discussion (although that bothers me, too) - it's about how much thought people are giving to their posts. In the two cases mentioned at the start of this thread, it's people mentioning a game that they already own but not actually talking about it to any worthwhile extent - that's the issue.
On point the second, obsession doesn't come into it. Both threads were started by people who are apparently enjoying the games in question (or the first in the series, in the case of KD) - again, it's just an issue of not enough effort being made. This isn't something peculiar to games, by the way - see this thread in FTV&T that didn't have any actual content until the fourth post in.
And even if some are a little obsessed, I don't see why that should prevent them from being able to construct posts that can be read by the non-obsessed.
Haus> Gotcha. I'm a bit on the defensive as I'm really very aware of the gulf that exists between some of the better threads in the forum (which, against my expectations, have largely been the sport-related ones) and some of the others (annoyingly, videogames-related ones).
You're probably right in saying that a few looser threads could get the traffic flowing a bit quicker. I'm just worried that we could end up with list threads straight away. It's not like there's not room for them, though - I mean, we've got general threads about westerns and zombie flicks in FTV&T.
Was considering doing a bit of a carpet bombing, starting up threads on each of the games that I've been putting time into recently. I can do that and I think I can make them interesting enough to justify doing so, but I wouldn't want to be seen to be smothering the forum and, given the lack of responses to those that I started on a couple of older games, I've no idea if the new ones would get anybody posting to them or starting their own along similar lines. If there is a problem with games, it's that they demand a significant investment of time, and I presume this is why it's only the K7 and MGS2 threads that got a decent response - one brand new game, one part of a famous and popular series.
As far as how moderators should approach the threads which they don't feel are living up to our expectations, I'd say either pop into them with a firm but polite request that people raise their game, or else try and encourage peopl to do so by submitting their own comments on the topic at hand. |
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