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12th May 2015 at 8:05 AM
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Quote: Originally posted by Buzzler
Re the "experiment" thing. I didn't think people would get so worked up about that word and I apologize for the poor phrasing. What the staff was trying to do with this thread was to concentrate an ongoing theme into one thread. There were no hidden parameters or anything like that. You can read it all in the first post by leefish.
Look at what this thread has become, though. A bunch of people connected by their disappointment of a game they were really looking forward to and wanted to like. Do you really consider this a good thing being connected to others through a negative feeling? The most positive sides about this thread are the off-topic talks about other games and IKEA and stuff. If it's the latter that keeps you going, then please go to Off Topic Discussion or to a social group and by all means continue. But what the staff sees in this thread is something that keeps the disappointment alive. And anger. Some of you are very angry and you don't hesitate to vent that anger at EA, the staff or other users. That too seems to be something this thread keeps boiling up even after all those months.
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I have been thinking about this all day, since I read Buzzler's post. I appreciate that he both apologized and explained the mods reasoning. I never posted in The Receptacle (though I was a frequent lurker) so I feel much less ownership of that thread and perhaps, perhaps I can speak from a bit of a distance. [Deep breath...]
Groups come to a point when anger and sadness become wallowing and self-pity and the group has to move on to acceptance and healing, or it becomes negative for all involved. Of course, the anger needs to have been explored and vented first. Knowing when the negative has been released and a turn to healing is needed takes skill and experience. I don't know if The Receptacle was at that point, but the mods think it was. However, my experience is with people grieving lost loved ones. As rabid fans as we are of The Sims, we all know that at the end of the day, it's just a game, a game we love, but a game.
The part of Buzzler's post that I bolded was, in my opinion, the most significant part. There was so much disappointment over TS4 that it quickly became anger, anger that was vented at other members and mods and mostly EA. I am not saying that posters from The Receptacle were responsible, but I do think that at some point, MTS mods began to group all negativity together, labeled it "Receptaclist" behavior, and didn't distinguish what words came from which member. I think that is why our little thread here has survived. We were not bold, in your face, posters. The extreme anger, at MTS, the Official forums, and throughout the community was very unpleasant to read, even if you agreed. I understand the MTS staff's desire to stop the anger, even if that meant stopping the reasonably expressed opinions also.
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