Lady GwynapNud wrote:
I'm just interested, who is supposed to be the most intimidating on this board? How did they gain their reputation and when did they last reinforce that image?
Long ago, the main Eq forum was harsh. It was an actual place to ask about the game, but generally asking for help got flames. Many left, but Eq didn't have any official forums. Honest! They had hundreds of thousands of people paying them about US$10/month and the game sucked so hard, people complained so much, they shut down their own forums. So all the...can I say average? folks came here. Loads of them. So we put up with the psychos who flamed people for asking simple questions because they were useful. Later on, they moved to the OOT, mostly. And that was fine.
But then Alla opened more games to the site, such as FFXI or whatever and those folks would post in their own game forum and come to the OOT to talk about the usual teen angst stuff.
Ya, not pretty. Alla compared us to West Virginia and kicked us into the assylum you know and love today. Creating the new OOT for friendly talk about rainbows and unicorns. Apparently the die hard flamers simply blew themselves out, although the come back from time to time. And apparently the rules for the OOT aren't so firm so there is little difference.
