<![CDATA[Kotaku: Forums]]> http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/kotaku.com.png <![CDATA[Kotaku: Forums]]> http://kotaku.com/tag/forums http://kotaku.com/tag/forums <![CDATA[Why You Shouldn't Always Listen to Loud-Mouthed Assholes on the Internet]]> THIS GAME IS BROKEN. YOU NERFED IT. THE NEW SERVICE SUCKS. I HATE THIS NEW THING. Listen to "fans" of games on the internet and a lot of the time that's what you'll hear. Loud, indignant complaints. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5855125&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Jesus Explains How To Deal With Negative Forum Comments]]> Sometiumes people say things in internet forums we don't agree with. In today's Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter JesusChrist tells us how to deal with these unpleasant situations. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5807824&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Blizzard On The Real ID Brouhaha]]> Blizzard, the studio behind StarCraft and World of Warcraft, was planning on rolling out a compulsary "Real ID" system, requiring gamers to use their real first and last names on Blizzard's forums. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5597413&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Blizzard Scraps Plans To Display Real Names In Forums]]> Following an overwhelmingly negative response from fans, Blizzard has decided not to implement the planned forum changes that would require players to post using their real names. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5583405&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Blizzard Forums Will Soon Display Your Real Name]]> How do you stem the tide of a forum flooded with flame wars, trolling, and other unpleasantness? Just do what Blizzard is about to do in the official forums for StarCraft II and World of Warcraft: Display posters' real names. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5580585&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Warhammer Online Unleashes Bitter Rivals Event]]> Mythic launches their four-month long Call to Arms live update for Warhammer Online this week, with the Bitter Rivals live event and the launch of their official forums. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5164136&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Backtalk in EA's Forums, Get Banned From Your Games?]]> Maybe the Internet really is serious business - being banned from Electronic Arts' support forums may carry more serious consequences than previously thought. According to a post in the Red Alert 3 forum by 'eeapoc' (Apparently, C&C Community Manager Aaron Kaufman) EA is implementing a new policy that will tie your forum login to your Master EA Account. If you get hit with the ban hammer for misbehaving in a forum, you could find that you are locked out of your purchased games as well.
"Your forum account will be directly tied to your Master EA Account, so if we ban you on the forums, you would be banned from the game as well since the login process is the same. And you'd actually be banned from your other EA games as well since its all tied to your account. So if you have SPORE and Red Alert 3 and you get yourself banned on our forums or in-game, well, your SPORE account would be banned to. It's all one in the same, so I strongly recommend people play nice and act mature."
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]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5070957&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Public Safety Notice: Games PR Are Watching You Post]]> Sorry, that was a little alarming. You, of course, knew that already. It's not as if games PR types sit around in ivory towers getting their information from carrier pigeons and whispers on the wind. They find out what you like, don't like and go "eh" about their games by, yes, trawling through your favourite forum, and reading up on what you - Average Joe - thinks about their games. Same goes for developers as well. Keen to hear more about how it all works? Please, hit the link below for the full 1UP feature, which features chats with, among others, PR reps from 2K & Capcom, as well as NeoGAF owner Tyler Malka. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=383448&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Warcraft III Patch Rap Battles]]>
This could be the beginning of a huge trend. Eagerly awaiting news of a patch for Warcraft III, official forum poster TowerPowerNerf was getting increasingly frustrated. When the Blizzard RTS Community Manager Karune posted news that there would be no WCIII patch before 2008, something inside TPN broke, and he did the only thing a man with nothing else to lose can do. He created a rap video. Not a particularly good rap video mind you, but he certainly put a lot of effort into, breaking out his best approximation of the English language to make sure his point was heard. Imagine if all heated forum posts eventually jumped from flame war directly to rap off! The internet would be a better place, especially if the company's employees started responding in kind. Karune did. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=338535&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Hackers Join Next-Gen HD Format Wars]]> In a sense, the next-generation HD battle of blu-ray versus HD DVD closely parallels the current generation console battle between Sony and Microsoft. Both have clear advantages and disadvantages over the other, and every time I try to choose between the two, something happens to cloud my judgment. Transformers on HD DVD. Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. Over the holiday season the battle grew more heated, as both formats tried to out special deal the other and forums broke out into the verbal equivalent of fisticuffs, escalating to the point where hackers threw their hat into the ring, redirecting visitors to Blue-raydisc.com to HD DVD's "The Look and Sound of Perfect" website. Nasty! The hack was quickly fixed, but the message is clear. This is still very much a war, and perhaps "Hack the Planet!" Makes you wonder if all industries have fights like this, and somewhere on a craft site a knitter is calling a crocheter a little bitch. F***ing crocheters. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=338266&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Dead Island Website Lives]]> Techland dropped us a line to let us know that the official website for Dead Island just went live. Sure to be your number one source for Dead Island info, the site contains links to press stories, screenshots, videos, and community forums so you can politely discuss the game with like-minded fellows, or call them asshats. You can sign up for the newsletter via the site as well to stay up to date on important Dead Island news, such as website openings. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=304890&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Correction's Officer Brags About Brutality On CoH Forums]]> One Portland Oregon corrections officer is in desperate need of correction, if his posts on the City of Heroes forums are to be believed. In a piece for the Portland Tribune, reporter Nick Bundick exposes the forum postings of David B. Thompson, which range from musings on the joy of tasering people to outright bragging about brutally beating a prisoner and then charging him for attacking him.
He also wrote, "I crushed a dude's eye socket from repeatedly punching him in it, then I charged him with menacing and harassment (of me)." Trafalgar then added, "he took a plea to get away from me. He shoulda picked somebody else to try and fight."
The article contains multiple links to CoH forum posts by Thompson, who reportedly only accesses the forums from his work PC, where he has posted 1,738 messages since January. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=298538&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[GoW Definitely Not Coming to PS3]]> The best way to get into a full-blown fist-to-cuffs fight these days to go around speculating which games are going to be exclusives and which ones are not. For those who still believe in the Tooth Fairy, just thinking about having of one of big three games rumored to get ported onto a foreign console will have you collecting enough teeth off the ground to pay next month's rent. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=265564&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Rumor: Mod Proof Wiis in Japan]]> Looks like after you upset Nintendo Europe with all that mod-chip talk, it went crying to mommy and told on you. Unhappy modders on the forum, Hacken.cc have recently found out that the newer version of the Japanese NTSC/J Wiis have had the three pins removed that enable mod chips to be attached. There has been no news of the US versions having the pins clipped, but of course, it's still so difficult to get a Wii, how would anyone really know for sure. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=264378&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[New Lite Cracks Inspire Droll Repartee]]>
With Nintendo gracefully acknowledging the Lite's hinge cracks and fixing them left and right, I felt justified in my choice of keeping my ol' reliable fatty on hand. And alas, a new crack seems to have reared its crackity head. More »
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