Anticipation/Doubt

[MusicallyInspired]

So anyone who has any apprehension about a KQ by Telltale is automatically a hater and an FPS-lover? Why would we even be here for either of those reasons?

[der_ketzer]

Originally Posted by Rather Dashing

King's Quest IX, the:
-Grade school spelling tutor with Satanic overtones

I would buy that

[SHODANFreeman]

Originally Posted by Alan Johnson

I did change that setting, though simply because it allows for the singling out of users for their opinion. I'm personally not crazy about the ability to display who voted for what on any of these polls, but with the current forum settings, that option remains selectable.

No need for the conspiracy theories, we're a game company, not the CIA. I assure you, we do try to be as transparent for you guys as possible, in as many aspects as possible.

It shows a big warning right at the top before you vote on such a poll, if you don't want people to know your opinion, you don't vote.

[Alan Johnson]

Originally Posted by SHODANFreeman

It shows a big warning right at the top before you vote on such a poll, if you don't want people to know your opinion, you don't vote.

Well, that's my opinion. Sorry if you disagree.

[Rather Dashing]

Originally Posted by Alan Johnson

Well, that's my opinion. Sorry if you disagree.

Well you shouldn't be expressing it here, as it could cause others to potentially harass you over it in PMs or something. You better remove all expressions of a viewpoint that could be different from someone else's from your posts, because any public expression of these things is a potential threat.

[Radogol]

Originally Posted by Alan Johnson

Well, that's my opinion. Sorry if you disagree.

On one hand, the poll would be useless even if it required typing in social security number. 100 users won't make any difference.

On the other hand, Rather Dashing consciously chose to make the poll public and everyone who votes gets a fair warning that his or her name will be shown to others. Messing around with it smells fishy to me, even though I'm not at all invested in the topic at hand.

[Chyron8472]

Besides, I believe there may have been public polls here about CMI vs "Ron's MI3" but noone PM-harassed anyone about their choice then either, and that argument got really heated on more than one occasion.

How is this any different?

[Alan Johnson]

Guys-wow.

[Anakin Skywalker]

Originally Posted by Rather Dashing

King's Quest IX, the:

-Massively-multiplayer archery deathmatch shooter.
-Grade school spelling tutor with Satanic overtones
-Interactive Geriatric fantasy porno with an overcomplicated interface that makes the program difficult to close
-Biblical game that denounces satanic fantasy

Or, of course, worst of all:

-Sequel in the vein of Mask of Eternity

Somewhere, there is an idea for the future of King's Quest that you would not enjoy, and that would make you wish the franchise had just stayed dead.


....wait.

What?


What good work? They haven't done anything for this project yet.

We get it, you don't want to see TT develop a KQ game. We get that you want KQ to stay dead--Glad you admitted it! You're gonna keep pounding that drum until a cancellation announcement for this game comes.

[Rather Dashing]

Originally Posted by Alan Johnson

Guys-wow.

What I think is "Wow", personally, is the gross misuse of power to arbitrarily change something that was doing nobody any harm and to directly circumvent a conscious choice on the parts of the poll's creator(myself) and all those who chose to vote on a poll that was clearly marked as "Public". This is something that has never been done by any moderator or community manager before or since, goes against all precedent on the matter, and is based on a completely false assumption that not only has no logical backing, but is actually an active insult to the community at large.

[Anakin Skywalker]

Originally Posted by Rather Dashing

What I think is "Wow", personally, is the gross misuse of power to arbitrarily change something that was doing nobody any harm and to directly circumvent a conscious choice on the parts of the poll's creator(myself) and all those who chose to vote on a poll that was clearly marked as "Public". This is something that has never been done by any moderator or community manager before or since, goes against all precedent on the matter, and is based on a completely false assumption that not only has no logical backing, but is actually an active insult to the community at large.

[der_ketzer]

Originally Posted by Rather Dashing

What I think is "Wow", personally, is the gross misuse of power to arbitrarily change something that was doing nobody any harm and to directly circumvent a conscious choice on the parts of the poll's creator(myself) and all those who chose to vote on a poll that was clearly marked as "Public". This is something that has never been done by any moderator or community manager before or since, goes against all precedent on the matter, and is based on a completely false assumption that not only has no logical backing, but is actually an active insult to the community at large.

I completely agree.

[Anakin Skywalker]

Originally Posted by der_ketzer

I completely agree.

Indeed! Cancel the game at once!

[zounds!]

...the usual suspects
staying on topic, I'm going to reserve both anticipation and a slight amount of doubt. I think it's cool that King's Quest is still loved enough to get a new one. I sorta doubt that it will live up to a lot of people's expectations (which are all over the map, frankly)

[Alan Johnson]

Originally Posted by Rather Dashing

What I think is "Wow", personally, is the gross misuse of power to arbitrarily change something that was doing nobody any harm and to directly circumvent a conscious choice on the parts of the poll's creator(myself) and all those who chose to vote on a poll that was clearly marked as "Public". This is something that has never been done by any moderator or community manager before or since, goes against all precedent on the matter, and is based on a completely false assumption that not only has no logical backing, but is actually an active insult to the community at large.

Lol

[SHODANFreeman]

Let's lock all threads and forums in fear that someone might disagree with someone else or possibly express a different or unpopular opinion.

In fact, let's just delete the entire forum to preemptively prevent any problems that could possibly propagate amongst the predominantly pragmatic people perusing these posts.


...p

[Giant Tope]

Originally Posted by Alan Johnson

Lol

Gee, you're such a great Community Manager.

[Alan Johnson]

Originally Posted by SHODANFreeman

Let's lock all threads and forums in fear that someone might disagree with someone else or possibly express a different or unpopular opinion.

In fact, let's just delete the entire forum to preemptively prevent any problems that could possibly propagate amongst the predominantly pragmatic people perusing these posts.


...p

It wasn't about the expression of a different opinion, but rather that I've heard from some users that they've been sent harassing and threatening messages over their disagreeing with poll votes in the past. That's all.

Seriously, all I was doing was trying to make an interesting poll more inviting to vote on for some that may not want to if it's public. It could have been a poll about what your favorite color was and I would have done the same.

I apologize if anyone has misconstrued my decision as anything malicious, but I swear to you, it was anything but that.

[Giant Tope]

What's the difference between a public poll (which has been stated to be such) and a regular ol' forum post though? I have received malicious pm's because of posts I have made on this forum as well. By your logic we should just take away everyone's ID and go the way of anonymous.

[Rather Dashing]

Originally Posted by Alan Johnson

It wasn't about the expression of a different opinion, but rather that I've heard from some users that they've been sent harassing and threatening messages over their disagreeing with poll votes in the past. That's all.

Seriously, all I was doing was trying to make an interesting poll more inviting to vote on for some that may not want to if it's public. It could have been a poll about what your favorite color was and I would have done the same.

It doesn't matter. A poll about your favorite color that allows for a person to post their favorite color has the same damn effect; someone who vehemently hates people who like the color blue will harass others who post in a thread about the color blue and how much they like it. We do not preemptively close threads that are about opinions, we do not delete posts that contain opinions, we do not delete social groups that are openly posted in our profiles that might express opinions, and if we weren't completely abusing moderator powers we wouldn't make public polls about opinions private. If someone is abused and harassed, that's a bad thing. We don't want that. But I doubt it's a problem that can't be dealt with on a case-by-case basis, just like any form of harassment. Just because some people make posts that are directly trolling other users with posts that are derogatory to their viewpoints, without adding to the discussion and instead being rude and dismissive of the validity of other's viewpoints, we don't SHUT OFF THE FORUM. We deal with those individual cases using moderators, who make sure that the freedoms that we are given to express ourselves openly are not abused.