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Following on from this thread: http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/so-jaesun-whats-a-classic-rpg-poll.74414/
This is the final judgement. No further discussion shall be entered into or taken into consideration.
- All in One. Create one "General RPG Discussion Forum" as we had before. Put all your Mass Effect, Twitcher, Oblivion and Knights of the Chalice threads in there and let God sort them out.
- Computer vs Console: MMXI's proposal for a "Computer RPG Discussion" and a "Console RPG Discussion".
- As it is now, a "Classic / Golden Era" forum with a "Modern cRPG Forum".
- Some other combination or addition (which you can suggest below). For those who think a forum split is good, we just need to split more or in different ways.
- Whatever happens, keep the jRPG Forum.
- Ditch the jRPG Forum.
- KingComrade!! Discussion. I will setup a forum where we can discuss the Comrade of Kings.
NOTE: You can select multiple options - thus allowing you to pick whether we keep a jRPG forum or not.
Votes are public, so I can track them. Anyone voting for conflicting options will of course cancel their own vote out.
Poll closes in 7 days and then that's it. If there's a clear overwhelming majority, that's most likelywhat I'll ignore in order to engender massive butthurt the option we'll go with.
MMXI's proposal:
This is the final judgement. No further discussion shall be entered into or taken into consideration.
- All in One. Create one "General RPG Discussion Forum" as we had before. Put all your Mass Effect, Twitcher, Oblivion and Knights of the Chalice threads in there and let God sort them out.
- Computer vs Console: MMXI's proposal for a "Computer RPG Discussion" and a "Console RPG Discussion".
- As it is now, a "Classic / Golden Era" forum with a "Modern cRPG Forum".
- Some other combination or addition (which you can suggest below). For those who think a forum split is good, we just need to split more or in different ways.
- Whatever happens, keep the jRPG Forum.
- Ditch the jRPG Forum.
- KingComrade!! Discussion. I will setup a forum where we can discuss the Comrade of Kings.
NOTE: You can select multiple options - thus allowing you to pick whether we keep a jRPG forum or not.
Votes are public, so I can track them. Anyone voting for conflicting options will of course cancel their own vote out.
Poll closes in 7 days and then that's it. If there's a clear overwhelming majority, that's most likely
MMXI's proposal:
stabby
Right now there's a Japanese and western divide, with the western forums split even further into classic and modern. Much of this thread has consisted of people bitching about the split between classic and modern, while quite a few others have brought up the lack of activity in the JRPG forum and how pointless it is because of it. But you've got to go back to the point of the split in the first place, and that seems to be to have a forum for the RPGs that aren't New Shit and not Japanese. The issue right now is that the classic/golden age forum, which I'm guessing is for people who may not care as much about multi-platform AAA garbage and JRPGs, doesn't capture enough topics of interest to its audience. It doesn't capture games like Temple of Elemental Evil, Knights of the Chalice or even Wasteland 2. These are the types of games that the "classic RPG" audience would be interested in, thus failing its objective as everyone will be checking both western RPG forums anyway. In other words, it serves no purpose other than to slow both forums down somewhat, which General RPG Discussion was never in need of in the first place.
So what are the alternatives? One would be to merge all three current single player RPG boards together into a new General RPG Discussion again, as before. Another would be to try to achieve the aim of the split in the first place with less of its problems. The only sensible ways of doing this is to split between the computer and console divide or the Japanese and western divide.
The problem with the latter, of course, is the same problem we have now. There's no clear way to keep Wasteland 2 and Grimrock threads next to Wizardry and Gold Box threads while keeping Skyrim and Knights of the Old Republic threads out (unless Jaesun moves stuff to General Gaming again, which caused just as much butthurt).
The former, on the other hand, is what I proposed. A console and computer split, with multi-platform games (at development time) going in the console forum to keep threads on shitty AAA games away from Wasteland 2 and turn-based indie RPG threads. In my opinion this is vastly superior to a split between countries of origin because it easily allows you to separate out modern PC exclusive indie/lower budget RPGs and trillion dollar AAA multiplatform games at the same time.
Of course, I have no argument against going back to how things were, and I won't even bother to argue against that. All I'm saying that if there has to be a split, don't split it in the way it is currently, as I don't want Knights of the Chalice threads in a different forum to Gold Box threads.