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Originally Posted by Red Panda
He calls the fans huge jackasses and says they are bitching.
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Wow, if anybody is misrepresenting the OP, it's you.
He specifically says that he would be a "jackass"
if he exhibited a particular type of behaviour. At no point does he say that all of the new people that have come in are practicing this behaviour. He says that "it seems like the game is bringing in a lot of people who, what's the nicest way to say this...aren't interested in being part of the community," which is not to say that
all new people are behaving like this.
As somebody who's been vaguely present member of the Telltale community over the past 5 years, I feel that it's up to me to correct you in your false belief that things weren't any better before. The kind of behaviour that the OP is talking about is uncivilised, and we had none of it (certainly not of the voracity that we've seen recently) before the Universal deal started to bear fruit.
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Originally Posted by Drake Sigar
It's not assumption, it's comedic exaggeration (a very blatant exaggeration too, do you take everything with such stonefaced literalism?) to show the huge numbers of people The Walking brought in, plus how TellTale's other great games weren't exactly in danger of mainstream attention.
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It's the internet, this is a fairly heated issue, etc.. There are more reasons to take things literally in this conversation than not.
Either way, having a large number of mainstream fans in itself isn't something I care enough about to be for or against. It doesn't seem to have impacted very heavily on the quality of games that are being made, so the only real difference is the ways in which the dynamics of the community have changed (this includes the ways in which Telltale interact with their fans, just as much as the behaviours of the fans themselves), and as this thread has shown, there have been some pretty negative outcomes.
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Originally Posted by Vainamoinen
Anthony would surely disagree with what this thread has become.
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I think it's a pretty tough issue to get proper discussion on. It's pretty close to home for newcomers who're worried about feeling alienated, and it's hard for those of us who've been grossly offended by recent events to stay objective too.