Walden95's Blog
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September 2010
Yes, where is Waldo?
POSTED ON
26/09/10
Sorry. Unfortunate as it may sound, I probably will not be participating in the Simming community as completely and frequently as I have in the past. Life has gotten slightly busier than last year and there is a ton of other games and activities I find more entertaining than the Sims. Don\'t get me wrong, I will try to keep up with my help forums at the least, but expect delays.
As you know if you read my previous blog posts, you may have seen that I\'m very interested in city-builders and other strategy games such as Civilization, Tropico, and many others which include tycoons and business simulators. As a PC gamer, I find these genres most interesting and addictive. Believe it or not, I still play these strategy games in my collection from 10-15- and sometimes 20 years ago.
Coming to the Sims 3 world just over a year ago has been a great experience. Ever since I\'ve hooked up broadband and connected to high speed internet, my view on gaming and gaming communities has changed quite a bit. I\'ve learned a lot from everything and will try to keep on doing so. I want to be a positive, helpful, and insightful role model, and I do not want to need to have a badge to prove that. The future for what I will do is uncertain, but I\'ll leave a small memo for what my plans are.
I\'m staying, but also partially moving on.
As you know if you read my previous blog posts, you may have seen that I\'m very interested in city-builders and other strategy games such as Civilization, Tropico, and many others which include tycoons and business simulators. As a PC gamer, I find these genres most interesting and addictive. Believe it or not, I still play these strategy games in my collection from 10-15- and sometimes 20 years ago.
Coming to the Sims 3 world just over a year ago has been a great experience. Ever since I\'ve hooked up broadband and connected to high speed internet, my view on gaming and gaming communities has changed quite a bit. I\'ve learned a lot from everything and will try to keep on doing so. I want to be a positive, helpful, and insightful role model, and I do not want to need to have a badge to prove that. The future for what I will do is uncertain, but I\'ll leave a small memo for what my plans are.
I\'m staying, but also partially moving on.
Where is Waldo?
POSTED ON
14/09/10
Sorry, I mean Walden95. Yes, I\'m not posting as much as I do have other things to do in life as I\'m sure many of you know as you probably do need to do the same yourselves. Besides life getting in the way at times, I\'ve grown a little more towards other games so I play and enjoy them more often then the Sims 3. One is Tropico 3 which I\'ve recently gone back into and have been playing it solely for about the last week or two.
It\'s fun little game and I recommend about as strongly I would with Cities XL. They do have a demo which you can download here . I probably will be doing a review of the game in a future blog post, but this is all I will say for now.
It\'s fun little game and I recommend about as strongly I would with Cities XL. They do have a demo which you can download here . I probably will be doing a review of the game in a future blog post, but this is all I will say for now.
Intresting Youtube Remixes.
POSTED ON
07/09/10
While doing my usual rounds across the web searching for new and interesting news and things, I\'ve come upon this creative YouTuber who has done quite a few creative remixes. My personal favorites are his Upular
and Toyz Noize
. I recommend giving a thumps up if you enjoy them too.
Just got the Blogmaster Badge!
POSTED ON
07/09/10
One goal down, a few more to go. But just for future reference, receiving this reward dose not mean I will stop blogging.
Site issues getting quite annoying
POSTED ON
06/09/10
This whole site is in dire need of some serious maintenance. After the last major fix which solved a lot of the issues that arose after the start of this site, everything has been degrading down once again. The forums are no stranger to such issues, and are taking a toll on its members.
For one, the forums work about half of the time due to a new bug: White Page of Death Clearing cookies and browser cache only helps so much thus doesn\'t always work. Another issue possibly intentional is the allowing of anonymous users to post. If it was intentional, I don\'t want to know who thought it was a good idea in the first place. Just about every day, trolls come out posting hateful and inappropriate messages, photos and whatnot all over the community leading many legit topics to be deleted. I wouldn\'t be surprised if some OPs get banned for an anonymous user trolling on their thread; it has happened in the past.
Once again, something needs to be done. And of course, unless the Gurus of this community can come to that conclusion, we are going to have to deal with this reality because of their mistakes and failure to take note of them.
For one, the forums work about half of the time due to a new bug: White Page of Death Clearing cookies and browser cache only helps so much thus doesn\'t always work. Another issue possibly intentional is the allowing of anonymous users to post. If it was intentional, I don\'t want to know who thought it was a good idea in the first place. Just about every day, trolls come out posting hateful and inappropriate messages, photos and whatnot all over the community leading many legit topics to be deleted. I wouldn\'t be surprised if some OPs get banned for an anonymous user trolling on their thread; it has happened in the past.
Once again, something needs to be done. And of course, unless the Gurus of this community can come to that conclusion, we are going to have to deal with this reality because of their mistakes and failure to take note of them.
The Fate of This Comunity
POSTED ON
04/09/10
As many of you know, recent activity within the boards has been on the decline since the release of World Adventures. Much of the reasons lie within EA\'s inability to maintain, moderate, ore even look their own site properly. Such inconveniences and annoyances leading to the banishment of incessant Simmers while the trolls run free have certainly taken a toll on this community.
Part of what I believe helps keep a forum together is it\'s moderators and regular members. Since many SimGurus don\'t take much of a part in their community excepting leading it towards deterioration, we only have regular members which is a variable. Without regular members who know this game well and help provide all other members with a variety of things to do and ways of receiving assistance, there wouldn\'t be much of a forum.
In my opinion, we are down to only a dozen or so and this number will continue to dwindle from her on out from bannings without reason, malfunctioning forums, and watching their online \'friends\' leave or be banished unjustly one by one.
Yes, EA has no reason to support this community, but what they seem to be doing is short term. EA doesn\'t like to put in much effort and I can\'t blame them, but if the effort that they are putting in is negative effort, that\'s a problem. Advertising the store is not an issue, but it does aggravate as they can\'t seem to put in any of that positive effort into the forum.
As explained, EA doesn\'t like to spend much on something that possibly won\'t return much back. We, the community offer much more than little which has been shown in the past. We host community events, answer technical and game issues, fix the game with patch mods, and much more that make the game more playable which in-turn makes us more hyped up to keep with this game and buy more products. If all EA ever does for its community is the act of deteriorating it while annoying it with numerous products, it\'s not going to pay off in the end; EA is killing their cash cow.
In the end nobody wins. Something needs to be done.
Part of what I believe helps keep a forum together is it\'s moderators and regular members. Since many SimGurus don\'t take much of a part in their community excepting leading it towards deterioration, we only have regular members which is a variable. Without regular members who know this game well and help provide all other members with a variety of things to do and ways of receiving assistance, there wouldn\'t be much of a forum.
In my opinion, we are down to only a dozen or so and this number will continue to dwindle from her on out from bannings without reason, malfunctioning forums, and watching their online \'friends\' leave or be banished unjustly one by one.
Yes, EA has no reason to support this community, but what they seem to be doing is short term. EA doesn\'t like to put in much effort and I can\'t blame them, but if the effort that they are putting in is negative effort, that\'s a problem. Advertising the store is not an issue, but it does aggravate as they can\'t seem to put in any of that positive effort into the forum.
As explained, EA doesn\'t like to spend much on something that possibly won\'t return much back. We, the community offer much more than little which has been shown in the past. We host community events, answer technical and game issues, fix the game with patch mods, and much more that make the game more playable which in-turn makes us more hyped up to keep with this game and buy more products. If all EA ever does for its community is the act of deteriorating it while annoying it with numerous products, it\'s not going to pay off in the end; EA is killing their cash cow.
In the end nobody wins. Something needs to be done.
I'm going to have to cancel the release of Keystone City
POSTED ON
02/09/10
Unfortunately, I\'ve come to realize that building a world requires more effort and time than I can put in. Because of this, I\'m going to have to discontinue this project.
