Comments on: RT @all Apparently social networking is big with the kids these days

By: Looking Ahead: Will November 2009 Be Another Great Month of Gaming? « ITG! I'm Talkin' Games

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:18:08 +0000

[...] deal with. I think that my thoughts on this inundation of social networking has been well stated by others, so just know that I agree with them. To make the point further, look at all the networks ITG is in [...]

By: Social Overload « Bio Break

Social Overload « Bio Break — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:51:25 +0000

[...] It’s, quite frankly, mostly useless extraneous crap. And it’s good to know that I’m not the only one who’s feeling this [...]

By: Kromus

Kromus — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:33:36 +0000

I constantly forgot my details for such- So i try and keep my range small but quality of posting and sharing higher.

I think its great and its clearly a good idea because people not only like to play things they like, they like to talk about things they like, and some games or situations you just can’t talk about even with your bestest, closest most understanding friends.

They just won’t get what you mean.

And I love RPGs in general, I think its the sense of “leveling up” or “getting better”.

By: spinks

spinks — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:11:29 +0000

I’m glad it’s not just me. I think they did some good work on making those origins appealing.

By: Syp

Syp — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:48:56 +0000

My first character was an attempt to make a pretty female dwarf as well… cool!

By: Tipa

Tipa — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:33:59 +0000

That punk street elf origin is definitely tempting … I almost went for that, and still might.

By: Pete S

Pete S — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:58:34 +0000

In the second Dragon Age novel, there’s a female dwarf who is essentially a bad-ass monk class. While everyone else is swinging swords she’s using her bare hands to take down the bad guys. I hope the game is as good as the books are when it comes to turning traditional fantasy tropes on their heads.

By: Flimgoblin

Flimgoblin — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:16:01 +0000

Bah, by other people’s existing forums I meant other existing social networks, obviously.

By: Flimgoblin

Flimgoblin — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:15:17 +0000

Shame they don’t provide a facebook connect/twitter/other openauth style login.

That said from another point of view it’s turning their game forums into something a little bit more, which makes it seem less of a “oh god not another social site” and more of a “nifty forum”.

Have they got anything to tie it into people’s other existing forums? The smart move would be to have people plastering their facebook/twitter/whatever with bioware/dragon age achievements (at a socially acceptable noise level) to passively recruit their friends to play the games too.

By: Scopique

Scopique — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:13:05 +0000

Prior to the release of NWN, I had started building a website where toolset users could gather and collaborate, but someone beat me to it. It’s good to see Bioware themselves hosting this kind of service for DA. However, I’m not sold on these game-specific user “blog” features. I would think that would be like preaching to the choir, no?