We finally have a decent amount of time between the incidents of when accusations, threats, and discrediting was sent to my private messages when articles that were being worked on were released for discussion. So looking back it seemed that controversial things tend to be high discussion points, but have a tendency to go nasty if people let their emotions grab the better of them and things go sour without being civil. The harsh learning a lesson of passion and the unshakable fandom that is in discussions can come out in a multitude of ways.
Every persons opinion matters to the loremasters who enjoy the tabletops, to the mechwarrior player thats into shooters, to the casual to hardcore level players, to the team killing troll who is anti PGI, and even those who are civil players who respectfully play the game for what it is, to the elitist game players who claim they are awesome. The thing is each persons voice can count and that it needs to be heard and discussed or else issues will continue to repeat themselves as a sort of predictable cycle. Especially if it isn’t easy to access with broken search engines, mountains of forum posts, or social media where topics disappear as fast as they came. This was realized in a article i wrote about raising awareness of an issue of online hate as well as asking people if the content that was discussed was even wanted. The presence of the articles have made some people feel uneasy, but alot of people on the discussions had actually enjoyed the diversity that it brought to their post feeds. Some stated that people hate when people take action and are possibly signs that they had given up all hope and are frustrated in previous attempts at discussions being ignored. Some had even recognized that articles were filled with passion and love for the franchise and the wishes each post had for development and discussions. On the other end with a few statements being negative had gone with going full on bashing the issues and treating them as the end of the games vitality. This would be a different perspective of the articles to create a stir of passionate rage that was directed to the writer. This direction had shown the many reasons people play or don’t play the MechWarrior Online game with their attempts at weakening the discussion through complaints of what it lacked over what it could improve over. Several people had voiced the the game should never change, and some people stated that the game would die with further development. This felt like it was a way to dismiss discussion or avoid it altogether by treating it as insignificant to consider other peoples views. At first things were pretty upsetting and the keyboard warriors really had gotten the wrong buttons pressed where things felt grim. There was no new visuals drawn, there was no new developments in writing articles, and there wasnt any more interfaces currently being worked on for the people. It brought up the issue that was being brought to the community about what to do with the messages that are pretty common online. The typical hate messages, irritation rants, and pointing the finger so to speak with a particular message sticking out more than the rest that was showing their anger about bringing up any sort of MechWarrior discussions. This person was not revealed by name and it was suggested that this person not be flamed or bashed, attacked or put down, but a question of the benefits of article writing and talking about it. The message recieved was on 11/3/17 “Get wrecked Matt, you make horrible cuts bleed in your posts and bring a pain to the MWO group page community. You have all these thin skinned adults all grinding on your art when you just came here. You need to post less and give us real results so people can face the realities of game developers not giving a F!@#!@$ about their player base. Stop fabricating hope. It’s annoying.” The message didn’t deserve an argument in being disrespectful, but the person was given a response to cool them down. The person was probably viewing things from being experienced and highly skilled in the game title and with a prideful point of view. This would mean a lesser view of those who haven’t put in the work for becoming skilled and pointing at beginning or casual players and to those who weren’t following the title for the same or longer amount of time. They also allowed themselves to be separated as the willfully ignorant and placing those who discuss the title as a select crowd that are wishful thinkers, so naturally it was important to explain the perspective of wishful thinkers. The difference between those who choose to discuss a topic and contribute to making a difference in parts of the game is a way to fully understand. With understanding there can be better discussions that move the whole topic forward with solid ideas that can be seen for what they are in the points themselves. But, as it is the internet there are alot of other people who choose to look the other way on a topic and keep trying to silence the discussion in hopes of things never changing. This is where situations happen where people can easily cherry pick what they like about the game and discount all the rest of everyone elses opinions as a way to hurt the title. Putting others down for their opinion can make people feel bad and it never shows the care to know about the persons background of investment in the series either, so it could make the offended party look like a spoiled brat if it ever comes to light. While not all people are into the Battletech Universe there are many out there that had gave the game a try because MechWarrior Online was based on it. People come together for the long lore legacies, the interesting technology and hint of cyber punk, big stompy robots called mechs, and shooter genre combat. People have their own histories growing up with the series, some even draw and program projects that extends the nostalgia factor, and some are even brand new players that are curious to go figure everything out. It would be horrible to never figure the stories of this people and say they are flat out wrong about everything they enjoy from the series from their personal experience with it, or their reasons for playing the MechWarrior series, or their own connection they made throughout their bond of the title. Being civil is an important part of keeping the integrity of the discussion to inform those who don’t know who want to know, state a opinion that could gain some traction, or just state the obvious or joke around to keep the conversation going. Too much toxicity and harshness can bring down peoples spirits into discussing anything about MechWarrior at all and prevents people from stating their opinion in staying reserved in consideration of a flame war. Pretending that things can’t be discussed and that someone is right and someone is wrong with a black and white without taking time to look at the grey in between. That very idea can stand between moving everything forward or stopping the discussions in their tracks with people insisting that their way is superior without considering all the angles one could tackle a complex topic as game development.
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