The Wolfe Pack

On one hand, all this drama on audiogames forum is kind of funny. I honestly wonder how many of these people who are griping about “pirated sounds” and “stolen synthesizers and assets” are writing their messages using illegal copies of Jaws with unlicensed copies of Eloquence.

On the other hand, it’s really annoying. All these great games get released, e.g. Crazy Party, Mist World, etc and then the trolling and complaining starts. Is it really any wonder that there are fewer games released now days, or at least fewer people sharing their games on what is supposed to be the centralized area for gaming information. We really need a place that is for developers, announce only, with no community interaction. More a magazine format instead of a forum.

Oh, forgot to mention, there seems to be a good deal of trolling against nonnative English speakers. Typically, it will start with negative comments about mispelled words, then someone will yell clone. The game createor will unfortunately try defending their work, and often due to translation errors, something will come across in a vague or undesirable way, and then they all pounce. Finally, after being subjected to page after page of trolling and abuse, one of the “admin” will step in, add their yelling to the developer, and close the topic.

We really truly need an informational site where developers can safely post without having to deal with the trash. Maybe have an optional contact form for developer that uses email so that all contact with the developer is private. At this point, I would be also interested in developers having a way to flag users as spammers or trolls, and if they use the sites contact form after that, it would cost $10 per troll point per message. So someone who has sent 5 troll or spam messages would need to pay $50 to send a message to a game creator.