Thread:Swordsplay83/@comment-5607198-20150725201142/@comment-5607198-20150726180139

well, you didnt really pose a question that wasn't part of the insult.

I also didn't intend to leave your own-wall priveleges active. But I'll leave that.

If you mean you'd like clarification of my comment, I'll oblige.

Screedwiki and TESwiki are widely disliked, for different reasons. TESwiki has a long history, and thus reputation (which, thanks to the newer mods, is slowly being changed for the better), of outright plagiarism. Whole passages were copied and pasted from other fan pages, and there was, for a long time, no quality control, and so the ONLY accurate articles were the ones stolen from other sites. But as I said, new mod staff have really been stamping down on that and TESwiki is slowly overcoming its old stigma. Screedwiki (like MGSwiki) has a reputation for extremely poor editing, unpleasant community, and what is scientifically known as "fanwank". Part of that is (or was) deserved, part of it is to do with the hate for Screed as a series. I couldn't tell you what the popular opinion of the Destiny and Journey wikis are, though my own opinion of Deswiki is rather poor. Lots of data, no information, poor organization. But I also haven't looked at that wiki since before expansion 2 dropped, so they may be fixing it.

As for the games themselves, Skyrim is widely beloved, true, but a VERY sizeable portion of the series fanbase is angry with it. Apart from the simplification of gameplay and further scaling-down of magic, Skyrim makes major changes to a lot of lore (the thieves guild plotline is usually set forth as a prime example) and pissed a lot of people off. Screed, on the other hand, has MANY points of contention withing its fanbase. I personally jumped ship after the broken mess that was Screed 3, and alot of people feel the same. But almost EVERY game in the series has had some sort of vocal outcry against it from the second onward. And now that there are half a million screed games, people are getting angry that they seem to just be churning them out without a mind for quality (like the backlash against the apparently nearly-nonfunctional Unity) or the plotline as a whole. Even the newest game (where you play a behatted Britsh gentleman) is being mocked about its core mechanic (the hat-disguise NOBLEMAN MODE ACTIVATE thing) by a large portion of the consumer base.

Do you see why I find the comparison problematic?

I'm not saying you shouldn't LIKE the games. I'm ONE of the people who heavily criticises Skyrim, and its still one of my favorite games. But coming in and saying "hey this series should be just like these other series" when the other series are experiencing so much backlash from so many different camps just seems like a bad idea.

Add all that to the derision (intended or not) I perceived based on how you phrased your initial messages, and I'm sure you can understand why I made my post speaking against you. I was saying "I believe you are wrong and I take issue with your behavior", but I did not actively attack you. Your response, however, was just angry profanity, which we do not allow. Am I illustrating the issue adequately?