[Kuddy]

Due to a lack of constructive posts from many users, as well as general administrative apathy towards the forum, the Arcade has been put out of its misery.

A new version of the forum has been created. Currently, only users who are Elite or higher can access it. We are currently debating options for giving access to normal members.

[commodorejohn]

*($&)(*$#&%*($!!!

Please give normal members back their access. I like the Arcade.

[GetDizzy]

read-only at least?

[Spectere]

commodorejohn, on Apr 27 2005, 02:13 PM, said:

*($&)(*$#&%*($!!!

Please give normal members back their access. I like the Arcade.

http://forums.specte....php?board=19.0



Nowhere near as popular, but publically available. I blatently stole the Wish Corrupter, also.

This post has been edited by Spectere: 27 April 2005 - 06:45 PM

[PhoenixUltima]

The core problem here, I think, is that forum posting games are just dumb to begin with. Take a look at any particular GameFAQs social board if you don't believe me. So naturally any forum game is going to become really stupid really fast unless it has a lot of smart and funny posters participating in it. The obvious solution, then, is to make the arcade invite-only. Or you could just bulldoze it entirely and encourage people to go on GFAQs if they want to play dumb forum games. Yeah, I know I haven't been at DMZX for very long, but you could tell just by glancing that the arcade was a lame pup almost at conception.

[Wervyn]

Whiners. I remember more than a few people calling for the Arcade's removal when I tried to patch it up a month or so back. Patch wasn't working, so we went with the "nuke it" plan, and NOW you complain. So here's what we're gonna do.

You've got your Arcade back. Congratulations. And you don't even have to worry about being intelligent or creative anymore, you can post whatever the hell comes off the top of your head and it'll be fine, because you know what? We just don't care anymore. Obviously, general forum rules still apply, but the Arcade has no specific rules anymore. You get to moderate yourselves, because we're tired of it, it's just too stressful. That means there's no request thread anymore, start new games at your whim. That means you can ping-pong as much as you like. That means you can go and derail a game by forgetting to include a continuation, and no one will stop you or void your post or anything. You're on your own now, hope you like it.
As for the rest of us, the Admins and the Elites, we've got our own new shiny Arcade to play in, and we will. And of course, I at least certainly won't be posting in the old Arcade anymore, and I'm recommending the same to everyone else with access to the new one, because hell, I don't expect to see anything interesting in the old cesspool anymore. If you're dissatisfied with that situation, then it's up to you to prove me wrong. Make some good posts, make do with what you have, no one's stopping you from playing the games to the best of your ability. Hey, if you're clearly outshining the rest of the bunch, we might just invite you to join us. But for now, well, that's how it is.

"You built this house, you made this bed, and now you get to sleep in it."

[Bramble]

Well, it'd be nice if maybe certain peasants got to post-- like, in the nice one, who knows.

Also I think I posted here but it was erased, or something. That seems to happen a lot, sorry

This post has been edited by Bramblekid: 27 April 2005 - 10:02 PM

[duvel]

Interesting development. HOORAH FOR TOTAL ANARCHY, SOON THE WORLD WILL BOW DOWN TO THE IDEAL OF TOTAL CHAOS *cough* excuse me. Anyway, I agree certain good posters should get a chance in the "big leagues" so to speak, or at least have them read-only for the rest of us. It's like baseball. We're the crappy Junior High league, you guys are the Major League. We play in ours, but we can only watch yours.

[Goshi]

Wervyn all this will achieve is making the Arcade seem more like a backally filled with Drugdealers than a uh... Arcade!

And ler that would just be an invasion of privacy

[Ando]

This way the Arcade will pretty much be like a MZXer version of z2. Which might be either/both a good or/and bad thing, depending...

This post has been edited by Ando: 28 April 2005 - 12:26 AM

[Superfunk]

For some reason, I still have full access and posting rights at the arcade.

[duvel]

Funkbrat: It could be because that's the abandoned Arcade where everyone can post but there's no rules.

[Goshi]

Speaking of which they conviently left Sword of the Faithful vulnerble to the amounts of spam and postwhoring... >_>

This post has been edited by Goshi: 28 April 2005 - 03:33 AM

[GetDizzy]

Thats because it has its own site now, duh.

[Bramble]

Yeah, I'm a new member of it too. Pretty soon I'm gonna read that thing and think up ideas for a page.

[Torte]

You know, with the cesspool it's gonna become now, I think you should just remove the entire thing... -_-.

[Pyro1588]

why remove it? if you don't like it, then don't go there, but there's no reason to just remove it for the sake of removing it. heck, we don't even get post counts for posting in it, so it's not like there's any problem if someone wants to spam to death in the arcade.

[scorch3000]

Uh, yay? Sounds a lot better then worrying about being on Probation for not posting something good enough.

[Pyro1588]

scorch3000, on Apr 28 2005, 08:10 AM, said:

Uh, yay? Sounds a lot better then worrying about being on Probation for not posting something good enough.

says the guy behind these posts.

back when it was moderated, i bairly ventured into the arcade (i'm pretty bad at these games.) now that it's unmoderated, i don't see much point.

[Superfunk]

ler, on Apr 27 2005, 09:49 PM, said:

Funkbrat: It could be because that's the abandoned Arcade where everyone can post but there's no rules.

Then what arcade is everyone complaining about then?

EDIT: I think I know. Maybe it can only even be viewable at the main forum menu by admins and elite members.

This post has been edited by funkbrat: 28 April 2005 - 11:00 PM

[scorch3000]

What the hell would be the point of a staff only arcade?

[Bramble]

So they can um, have fun without unimaginative posting I think. Scorch man, your posts have all been negative. Brighten up, man! : )

Funkbrat: Yeah, maybe you should read over Wervyn's post again. There's our forum, then another one for only the Elites and Admins.

[Dr Lancer-X]

scorch3000, on Apr 29 2005, 09:40 AM, said:

What the hell would be the point of a staff only arcade?

So that we can play arcade games without sucky people ruining the fun!

[asgromo]

Yeah, seriously Scorch, not admitting you suck really bad? what's with that

[ZzCrook]

scorch3000, on Apr 29 2005, 07:40 AM, said:

What the hell would be the point of a staff only arcade?

It's not staff only. Elites are allowed to post in the good arcade as well.

Also, the activities there are a lot more mature and organized. I always thought the old arcade seemed to be a bit to high maintenence, anyway.

[RoSS]

I take it from the new "Arcade Non-Rules" that the Admins have finally just given up on the normal arcade?

[ZzCrook]

RoSS, on May 5 2005, 07:19 PM, said:

I take it from the new "Arcade Non-Rules" that the Admins have finally just given up on the normal arcade?

That's what I got out of it, yeah.

[scorch3000]

Ah, i thought you ment making the normal arcade staff only. That's what i was getting at, it sounds stupid.

[Torte]

Just an idea, how about appointing someone that think that s/he can take care of the arcade (and that you know isn't a complete fucktard) as a moderator over it?

[duvel]

I apply!

I may not be the most creative all the time, or even some of the time, but I do at least know what's wrong and have ideas on how to fix it.