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Cuz it divides the community even further. There should be one, and only one, official Maxis website for TSO.
Hard enough getting players to come here, now we gotta expect a segement of this segment to follow through and go to another site?
Most folks do not have that patience, and once again we will have a site full of "the players' opinions" that isn't even reperesentative of what folks on Stratics want, let alone what the run-of-the-mill player wants.
Whatever happened to good ol' fashioned surveys? They've got our demographic info on file with our account info, don't they?
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That was my feeling on it too, for all the reasons you mentioned. I've been lurking on the blog just to see what was being talked about, and alot of it is just the same ideas we've kicked around for the last 2 years. Having a single thread here to re-present (since we've already stated our ideas over and over on the forum here) would have served the same purpose in my mind, and would have allowed for more comment since you have to register over there to comment on anything, which requires waiting for a password to be mailed to you which means you can't comment immediately, and very well could forget what you were gonna say in the first place if you have a swiss cheese memory like mine
. If the registration was automatic I wouldn't have so much of an issue with it, as long as registering for it would not send a bunch of spam to my e-mail.
The only other issue I have with it is the moderation factor, that any comment you make can be deleted if he and/or whoever he has moderating, doesn't like it, without any clear guidelines for what can and cannot be posted so you know ahead of time if you're posting something that is borderline even. At least here we have the ToS and the RoC to refer to if we're about to say something that we wonder whether or not will lead to action taken against us, so it's not nearly as subjective, though its still got room for interpretation I suppose, but not to the same degree.