All of my questions are pertaining to player traits and ratings...how they interact with each other. There has to be some correlation between them and I would hope it is documented somewhere. I will never knock someone for trying to bring more viewers to a website. As stated, it's your job and I would do the same. I will continue to voice displeasure when I read articles that are recycled material. It has nothing to do with the author, just the content. No idea what the phone comment is about. I'm assuming inside joke
See that's when the line is crossed. I was just playing around... Just a heads up...if you send it to that number above I have no idea who it is going to. So if a 12 year old boy gets the image and shows his sex detective father...that is on you
Thanks for the article. Just because I already knew some things doesn't mean other people know all that stuff. Some guys would rather criticize others than actually bring some thing to the table.
See this is where people make a mistake...they say I'm criticizing the author. I expressed disappointment in the article. The only personal thing I mentioned was that the article seemed to be misleading (to some including myself) to draw more of an audience. I could see how that is viewed as a criticism. I see it as a likely situation where I don't blame the author at all. As previously stated, it is his job to bring in more traffic to TSO. It's all good though. If others want to take shots at me or try to have me banned on OS again (I'm looking at you...you know who you are ) go for it. Try to have me banned here for having a respectful opinion. Or maybe just listen to an opposing opinion and think about it rationally. A mature, civil discussion can be had if you open your mind. I know that I'm open to new point of views and ideas.
I don't take it personally, it is what it is to me. I don't mind people having an opinion as long as it is respectful, which isn't something I experienced at OS last time I was there posting. Regardless, I know who the article was written for and who it wasn't. If you go back and look through this forum you'll notice I asked people to give me questions they want answered, as I had a conference call with the developer and designer responsible for this feature and I got crickets...so I wrote something general.
If you're referring to me, I could care less if you're banned or not; that was definitely not my intention. It was a general commentary about how ridiculous the culture is over there, and how some guys get banned for sneezing too loudly. I thought your tone was very reflective of said culture, and extremely cynical. Trying to get you banned - lol. I was actually trying to get MYSELF banned. I used to love OS, but it's become a cesspool. Also also, if your ND stands for Notre Dame, I'm about the biggest fan you'll find around these parts. I'd never try to do that to one of my own. Now if it's North Dakota? F U
To follow up, I'm going to try to get more info and follow up if I'm able. It will be a couple weeks though, with E3 and all.
Above I believe somebody referred to OS as a cesspool. I took a moment to reflect on that and man it is pretty accurate. The overwhelming negative tone towards any announcement is crazy. There are still awesome members there but the angry posters can't be ignored. I jumped on this article hard but overall if you look at my post history I have no doubt I would be classified as an optimist on EA football.
That was me. I was a veteran of OS, and build up a pretty stellar reputation there. For Madden 11, I got the game a week early and offered to run a simmed franchise detailing progression/regression/the draft/fa etc, but asked that all questions remain either general or about the players on my team, as it would be impossible to keep track of everything else. Well, the thread ballooned to over 50 pages quickly, half of which guys were very grateful, half of which were guys asking for little petty questions that I simply couldn't take the time to find answers to. Anyways, when I declined to answer some of those ridiculous questions, I was insulted like crazy (though many did come to my defense). When I finally asked someone who had been insulting me to "shut the hell up," I received the following message from the mod: "Man, I love what you're doing with that thread, so gracious of you to take the time to answer questions and scratch a bit of an itch before this game gets here. However, if you speak to someone like that again, you're banned." It wasn't soon after I realized that just wasn't the place for me, and found a home here. While there are many quality guys over there, they are drowned out by that (m)asses. I'm all for constructive criticism, but they are beyond unreasonable and looking for an excuse to complain.
