Re:The Rage of the Mechwarrior Online Community (2013)
by klunk on Thursday June 26, 2014 @01:53PM
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Interesting note on the subreddit split, it happened because a group of folks from SomethingAwful who don't play the game were made moderators within /r/mwo and immediately used the new privileges to delete content and deface the sub. More than anything else it might be a cautionary example about game devs/publishers ignoring off-domain forums. Since then, PGI has become more active in the /r/outreachhpg community.
Re:The Rage of the Mechwarrior Online Community (2013)
by rurounijones on Thursday June 26, 2014 @11:57PM
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From that I remember that is a bit of an over-simplification of the situation somewhat but I cannot really find a good source of events.
Not that the situation has improved much since (Helloooo $500 golden clan mech cash grab and general clan release screw-ups), but probably needs a (2013) in title.
The article doesn't quite touch on how hostile / trolling some of the PGI staff (Paul) have been to their community.
The community became so broken that the sub-reddits split (See /r/mwo for the haters and /r/outreachhpg for the believers)
The rage has mostly died down I think because most people but the true believers have given up and moved on to other games.