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Post by Prime Minister Sinister on Feb 16, 2017 22:44:16 GMT -5
 The warning has been issued. lmao dude, they're just going to tell you to get the fuck off their board-- the internet is not your personal army part of me wants to watch this fall flat, but another part of me is just like "dude no" |
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Post by grumble on Feb 17, 2017 12:27:16 GMT -5
Yeah Amos, what Jcarter said... also, don't ruin the game for the good players and staffers that are still around, jeez.
And consider this, what if it backfired and they chose to attack a board of butthurt nerds on the internet because it results in more lulz. Did you check the link PMS responded with in another thread?
Still, even just the threat, that's not going to make them go easier on players, that's just going to result in more bannings.
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Post by jcarter on Mar 3, 2017 23:18:55 GMT -5
hey OP, it turns out that even though staff awarded you 7 karma you actually aren't any good at roleplaying. gdb.armageddon.org/index.php/topic,52291.msg981840.html (a small nergal snippet) those grapes were probably sour anyway. |
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Post by sirra on Mar 4, 2017 2:54:57 GMT -5
I really only play for maybe 2 or 3 months at a shot, then give it a 9-10 month break before getting curious enough to make a character and give it another shot. The cycle repeats itself, and always ends in disappointment at how mediocre the game has become. I never fully regret those re-trials, because I usually find one good group of people to play with each time, and form a memorable experience. I did this exactly from 1999-2016. I'm still somewhat amazed by it, considering everything else that happened to me between those two dates. It still feels like them removing kanks and trying to make Armageddon II happen is when it really took a turn for the worse. If the staffers in charge hadn't been so incredibly stupid and anal, the game could've had and maintained a huge playerbase. There are a lot worse muds that have. But they pretty much made every wrong decision possible. |
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Post by jkarr on Mar 4, 2017 4:10:27 GMT -5
I did this exactly from 1999-2016. I'm still somewhat amazed by it, considering everything else that happened to me between those two dates. what happened It still feels like them removing kanks and trying to make Armageddon II happen is when it really took a turn for the worse. +1 |
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Post by sirra on Mar 4, 2017 5:09:43 GMT -5
I did this exactly from 1999-2016. I'm still somewhat amazed by it, considering everything else that happened to me between those two dates. what happened It's just weird that in roughly 15 years (1999 and 2016 don't really count), I kept returning to the same shitty little corrupt game on a migrational basis, like some great white shark that circles the equator once every 14-18 months. Considering that I was an extremely different person at each of those two bookends. The reason for it, I think, was the same as the OP gave. I would always find at least a few new cool people, until staff somehow found a way to inspire apathy, frustration and boredom again. |
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Post by jkarr on Mar 4, 2017 5:36:04 GMT -5
It's just weird that in roughly 15 years (1999 and 2016 don't really count), I kept returning to the same shitty little corrupt game on a migrational basis, like some great white shark that circles the equator once every 14-18 months. Considering that I was an extremely different person at each of those two bookends. The reason for it, I think, was the same as the OP gave. I would always find at least a few new cool people, until staff somehow found a way to inspire apathy, frustration and boredom again. that and zalanthas for a lot of us was/is kind of like returning to ur fave tv show growing up, same backdrop just diff chars and new plotlines to explore when u think of it as the reliable rl escape plan its much less hard to believe mainly because no matter who was wizzing the sandbox/free roam aspect of the world was always there despite them taking plot/player micromanaging to ocd lvls later on |
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Post by dunebum on Apr 6, 2017 14:13:28 GMT -5
Had some drinks with other ArmageddonMUD players over the past week and a question came up.
Is this the first such time that a MUD has banned players for having a forum account elsewhere? Are there any other such events that you can recall?
Curious and posting from my own account to protect the innocent so they don't get banned unnecessarily, though I'm sure they'll be reading the responses here and on mudconnect.
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Post by picklehead on Apr 6, 2017 22:48:08 GMT -5
Had some drinks with other ArmageddonMUD players over the past week and a question came up. Is this the first such time that a MUD has banned players for having a forum account elsewhere? Are there any other such events that you can recall? Curious and posting from my own account to protect the innocent so they don't get banned unnecessarily, though I'm sure they'll be reading the responses here and on mudconnect. Specific to Arm, having played off and on since 1994, I don't recall another forum like this. So... no. I don't know that other MUDs have had similar witch hunts. |
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Post by sirra on Apr 6, 2017 23:04:15 GMT -5
There are games with thousands - millions - of players that don't have their own forum dedicated to hating the management. Because even the worst run major game out there, allows more criticism and freedom of speech on their official boards, than Armageddon does.
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Post by lyse on Apr 7, 2017 11:39:06 GMT -5
The closest thing I can think of is the old WORA (when online roleplaying games attack!) board. It was moreso a board about Mushes, mainly WoD games, but Firan got a lot of hate along with Shangrila. It ranged from bad descriptions, to shitty reoccuring characters across multiple games, to the dramatic shit staff on games get up to. I'm not sure what happened to it but it was hilarious, a lot of things that happen on Arm aren't unique.
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Post by jkarr on Apr 7, 2017 15:25:31 GMT -5
the fact that it actually takes effort to come up with other examples says volumes
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Post by dcdc on Apr 8, 2017 11:08:21 GMT -5
www.reddit.com/r/playrust/You'll won't find a larger concentration of scum and villainy on the net. Well except boards.4chan.org/v/Two easy examples of boards dedicated to hating their game or medium, that they undoubtly pour hours into. We owe our lineage to those communities. I stand on the shoulders of Giants. - Sam Hyde
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Post by sirra on Apr 9, 2017 0:54:49 GMT -5
It's not quite the same level of hatred.
In relative video-game terms, you dislike the hobo that pisses on the sidewalk outside your house (Rust). You really hate the hobo that breaks in to your house, beats and drags you away screaming to a dirty hobo sex/torture dungeon in the projects (Arm).
That's the difference between say, a game like Rust or any other early alpha release that might just glitch out now and then. And like, the years worth of corruption, mismanagement and passive-aggressive abuse that one might receive playing Armageddon.
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