{"id":628,"date":"2012-04-13T18:19:32","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T17:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiowood.com\/?p=628"},"modified":"2012-04-13T18:34:36","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T17:34:36","slug":"flaming-wars-in-the-online-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/?p=628","title":{"rendered":"Flame wars in the online game community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over on my <a href=\"http:\/\/sw-tor.se\" target=\"_blank\">blog about Star Wars online games<\/a>, I&#8217;ve been following the current extended outage of Star Wars the Old Republic. This follows an attempted minor fix of a major update that kept the game offline for hours yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>As I write, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swtor.com\/community\/showthread.php?t=407233\" target=\"_blank\">the thread on the SWTOR Customer Service forum<\/a> about the disastrous new patch (that took four hours) and the seven hour task of fixing it, is 72 pages (ten posts a page) long. Initially people were remarking about yesterday&#8217;s content disappearing, and wondering when BioWare would respond. Now that BioWare has &#8220;fessed up&#8221; and tells we won&#8217;t be able to play for six more hours, the thread has degenerated into a flame war.<\/p>\n<p>The initial sides seem to have been those who were upset that the game they subscribe to is offline, and those who point out that after all it is only a game and not to get so upset. Both reasonable positions, but one wonders why some people have to start calling each other idiots because they don&#8217;t agree? I saw a lot of this on the Star Wars Galaxies forums. People seem to tend to say things online that they probably wouldn&#8217;t say if they were talking in person.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, they probably wouldn&#8217;t make such comments to each other in-game (although they did in SWG, but the conversation interface was a lot better there).<\/p>\n<p>I should point out that not everyone in the forum thread is flaming. Civil interactions continue as well. The best recent comment was from someone who wondered why BioWare didn&#8217;t submit today&#8217;s minor patch to its Test Server to see what would happen. After all, that&#8217;s what the Test Server is for.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over on my blog about Star Wars online games, I&#8217;ve been following the current extended outage of Star Wars the Old Republic. This follows an attempted minor fix of a major update that kept the game offline for hours yesterday.&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/?p=628\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[167],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3AzSx-a8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":632,"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions\/632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}