[quote=Remon][quote=- Ice] Wow. You're so unable to follow a line of discussion I realize now it's moot to debate you. I thought that was a one-off with another forum member here but apparently it isn't.
/ OT mode on /
Ice, have you ever seen anyone on the ED forums who is able to follow a line of discussion?
- Sure, when you're posting how amazing DCS is, and how ED does a great job. In this case anything is admitted, even posting memes and going totally OT is allowed, and welcome.
- When you post a nasty bug, well, you either get moved to the "wishlist" section, or totally ignored into oblivion.
- It then becomes totally impossible for the ED fanboy to follow any discussion if you dare criticise anything done by ED.
I always find amusing how fanboyism works.
Over at the ED forums in a way you get used to it, everything is of the same "color", because anyone with a different opinion is efficiently banned, dangerous heretics and anarchists are immediately dealt with. I have a laugh every time I read a thread, every 3 posts there's a username with that little red cross next to it (meaning banned). Of course you can never tell why he was banned, because the offending posts are removed in a matter of seconds.
Here on the other hand, fanboys spark a very stark contrast with people that can actually enjoy different sims and debate freely on the strengths and weaknesses of each one, and god forbid, even go as far as comparing DCS with BMS!
You know what? I enjoy DCS. What bothers me is what DCS could be but will not be, unless ED got their act together a little more. There is one thing I learnt very quickly in my job, and is the base of pretty much every commercial activity on the planet: listen to your customers and look at what the competition is doing. ED don't do enough of this. They instead opted to cultivate a sort of sect of followers, while shunning everyone else.
And this is why DCS will never be able to take the role that Falcon 4.0 / BMS always had in the combat sim community. The Falcon community, with all of its drama, has always been a place where you could feel the need and want for progress. More realism, more options, more of everything. No argument is taboo.
The DCS community on the other hand, is generating bitterness, fanboyism and censorship. It's self-limiting. You can't express your opinions freely because there are people at every corner ready to discredit your post or derail the thread. You can't suggest or want something that ED doesn't approve. You can't freely discuss the fidelity of A-A missiles, because you're exposing a weakness in DCS and ED will not acknowledge the problem.
