Prickett wrote:I couldn’t imagine the rules being more complicated that don’t be racist or don’t post porn. If their rules are more demanding than that, please let me bc I would be very surprised.
Except everything anymore is "being racist," including things that have nothing to do with race. I've been called racist simply for existing. I voted for John McCain, and somehow that was racist (looking back, i'm glad he didn't win, but i wish he didn't win the primary, either). "MAGA" is somehow racist, too, which it's not, especially since the man behind it is suggesting it happens regardless of the races involved. This is the kind of vagueness i'm referring to. My favorite one is "not hatespeech." Somehow, "i stand for Israel" is also hatespeech. This is what i mean with vague rules. What's even worse is how bad some people are with this, and they somehow genuinely believe that these are the things that they claim, but if you grill them on how these things are actually the way described, they cannot actually make the connections. It's really sad what echo chambers we live in.
A few hours ago I got banned from the nethack room on freenode for "challenging people to political debates." What happened was, 2 different occasions on the same day, people asked about things that invaribly resulted in politics (one was about whether or not you could make memes about the incubi and succibi, the other was about whether or not Finland is to sweeden or some other country as canada is to america which naturally involved discussion on military spending, and i'll have you know it was the second topic, not the first, that so offensive that i got banned [to be fair, i called out an op who was telling me to ignore the conversation, when s/he was actually posing as normal user and made no declaration that there even were rules in the room, when, in fact, they explicitly said there were no rules to the room yesterday]).
These forums aren’t super active, but I’ve been around here for a LONG time. I’ve been checking daily for the last 7 years or so. They’re certainly active enough.
The benefit of a discord is more casual chat. I believe it’ll respark the glory days of the off-topic sub forum we’re in right now.
And even if the discord ended up being fairly empty, I could hardly see that driving away sales. Anyone buying the quest is doing so for the retro games aspect. They don’t need the modern addition of community. That being said, discord would only make it appeal to a larger audience.
I think it would be a great PR move, and would hopefully reinvigorate the community. Beyond that, there is absolutely no overhead risk if it doesn’t work.
Being dead means "well, maybe this isn't as popular as we thought it was." It destroys any hope of a "hype train."
Don’t quote me on this, but I’m fairly certain it’s free to make a discord.
Depends on how you define free. In practical sense, it is, but IRC moreso. Unlike discord which makes money off of "aggregate" data collection that they supposedly aren't even doing (they say they aren't, but they leave room for it in their privacy policy due to it's vague nature), IRC doesn't even keep logs, and it would be up to someone to actually make a logbot if they wanted logs. In fact, actually, many chats allow free chatting, not just IRC. You can even make a skype room for free. Like i said, i have a free room open already on EsperNet, and if they decide they want to go with it, anyone who actually has mod status here, i'll op them and surrender ownership of the room to them. Right now i'm just holding it as a placeholder just in case. So far, not a soul has joined.
Another benefit of IRC in particular, is that the chat could be embedded into the game if he chose to do so. Can't really do that with discord.
Absolute worst case scenario is it’s just a part of redshift games that doesn’t see any action. It would in no way hurt how the company is performing right now.
It would also help new players rally around the quest 2 when it eventually releases, boosting sales from a whole new audience of modern gamers who enjoy the community aspect just as much as the games they’re playing.
it wouldn't hurt company performance most likely, but that's not tied to marketing. Elendil will likely chug along coding, chat or no chat.