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ReBurn
Gold Member
reddit does a very poor job of removing mods that screw up subreddits with stupid crap like this. If the mods want to go spend all of their time on r/xbox then more power to them, but reddit should give the console subreddits to someone else if the users want to keep them going.
R6Rider
Gold Member
How about no.
feynoob
Gold Member
I would rather twitter get delisted. Reddit still has alot of cool stuff.
Gamer_By_Proxy
Member
They misspelled /r/MicrosoftGaming
Hero of Spielberg
Member
r/games is much better than r/gaming. I just gave up on r/gamingg when every post was either 'look what I found in my grandmas attic!' or 'who else remembers this gem?'....
LavitzSlambert
Member
/r/gaming is unreadable. Eventually /r/games will end up the same way, but thanks for delaying the inevitable just a bit more.
LavitzSlambert
Member
The hivemind cesspool of Reddit is why I came here, to get back to chronological interest based forums that move at a slower pace, with a community of users you can actually get to know. It seems kind of lame, but I recognize a lot of users on GAF. Even if nobody recognizes me, it feels much more like being part of a community than any subreddit ever did.
SecretAgentHam
Member
Of all the things to be upset about, this isn't one of them imo. They're consolidating the community into an Xbox focused subreddit for discussion. Not sure where the drama is.
diffusionx
Gold Member
Reddit mods are basically the worst people on the internet and live for the updoots and the ability to demand and force a social consensus. It is the opposite of how any actual community is formed.Just been reading lots of the comments and not one person so far is happy about it. Do Xbox wander around during the day looking for way's to piss off their fanbase? They seem to be experts at it these days.
Here's a chart to make you feel great about being force migrated. It reads like a load of wank to me.
I remember enjoying a PC Format's magazine forum. It was great, localised, warm friendly and you spoke directly with magazine writers. Great community built up. Then one day the magazines owners decide that they want it to migrate. So it became this new wishy washy for the masses, arsehole of the earth. And they lost all the OG community, good will and it all disappeared. And this was at a time when magazines were fighting for support.
Oh well, Xbox will be Xbox.
ShadowNate
Member
Just open up Mixer again and siphon the community in.
Call it Blender this time.
Then shut it down again.
Call it Blender this time.
Then shut it down again.
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TGO
Hype Train conductor. Works harder than it steams.
Yes this isn't a comments section with random user comments who you'll never see again.
We actually have members that have own personality and traits who you can kinda get to know.
Although I do remember when threads would disappear quickly because how many people was posting.
gaming_again
Member
Does it ever occur to the kind of people making these decisions to simply leave people the fuck alone? Constant meddling and interfering.
gaming_again
Member
Twitter is the internets only counterbalance to the mind virus. Reddit is its incubator.
Personally I think anybody with Reddit karma over a certain level should be forced to live on an island far, far away from civilisation.
gaming_again
Member
Because the 'we know better than you' attitude is infuriating.
ChuckeRearmed
Member
Should have done that long time ago. Or at least migrated the posts and topics to Xbox thread.
Usually in such cases viewership plummets as people don't move.
Usually in such cases viewership plummets as people don't move.
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Bert Big Balls
Member
Lmfao. All the world's problems and these fucks are crying over having to visit a different URL to discuss their soon to be defunct console. Who the hell cares.
intheinbetween
Member
Actually the OP should’ve just used merged instead of shut down
Sw0pDiller
Member
Is this clickbait?
xrnzaaas
Member
r/xbox is a pretty empty place. I don't think it's just because of the trolls downvoting everything and I don't expect that everyone will move there. They should just allow people post where they want.
And, most of all, subreddits should be handled by enthusiasts, not become carefully moderated ad platforms for the big corpos (from what it's been suggested Nelson from xbox pushed for the merge).
And, most of all, subreddits should be handled by enthusiasts, not become carefully moderated ad platforms for the big corpos (from what it's been suggested Nelson from xbox pushed for the merge).
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Daneel Elijah
Gold Member
Shit move, but it should have been expected in hindsight. Not a Reddit user, but as a long time lurker I am sure that they did it for all the wrong reasons.
King Dazzar
Member
My understanding is that this is at least in part being driven by Xbox itself though?
Yeah in 6 years I've posted 30 times. And many of those I regretted. But I still read bits of it and gain some knowledge. That's why having a platform focused element was useful.
Shake Your Rump
Member
Initially you may think this is a good move, but it isn’t.
There are separate subreddits for PS5, PS4, PS3, PS2, and PSX. It works very well. People contribute relevant content and it’s easy to see the content you want.
Merging and relying on “flairs” makes everything cluttered, more difficult to post and find content, and more difficult to moderate.
This Xbox thing just seems like an attempt to make Xbox seem more popular than it really is by shoehorning everyone into one place. Hell, Microsoft themselves is probably behind this.
There are separate subreddits for PS5, PS4, PS3, PS2, and PSX. It works very well. People contribute relevant content and it’s easy to see the content you want.
Merging and relying on “flairs” makes everything cluttered, more difficult to post and find content, and more difficult to moderate.
This Xbox thing just seems like an attempt to make Xbox seem more popular than it really is by shoehorning everyone into one place. Hell, Microsoft themselves is probably behind this.
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Bernoulli
M2 slut
Now xbox controls reddit too, more shilling and censorship
It would be much easier to just sit back and ride the horse. This started with a request from Larry Hryb (Major Nelson) over a year ago. Users had two full weeks earlier this year to respond to a survey about the future of these communities that was stickied atop r/xbox, r/xboxgamepass, r/xboxone, and r/xboxseriesx
It would be much easier to just sit back and ride the horse. This started with a request from Larry Hryb (Major Nelson) over a year ago. Users had two full weeks earlier this year to respond to a survey about the future of these communities that was stickied atop r/xbox, r/xboxgamepass, r/xboxone, and r/xboxseriesx
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Little Chicken
Member
People wanted this when the Xbox Series X was announced, it didn't make sense to keep the main subreddit as "xboxone", considering the backwards compatibility would leave the X1 redundant for most.
I find gaming discussion on reddit to be enjoyable if it isn't r/gaming. Lots of people on the Xbox Series subreddit manage to talk about other consoles without the hysterics you'd find here. Same with the PS5 subreddit.
I like gaming communities like r/patientgamers, r/metroidvania and r/gamedev.
I find gaming discussion on reddit to be enjoyable if it isn't r/gaming. Lots of people on the Xbox Series subreddit manage to talk about other consoles without the hysterics you'd find here. Same with the PS5 subreddit.
I like gaming communities like r/patientgamers, r/metroidvania and r/gamedev.
DaGwaphics
Member
crackajack
Member
Why not just merge with r/gaming r/games r/hobbies r/zocken etc. too? Then MS could announce a whole lot more users suddenly interested in "their" brand.
I get it, special divisions are maybe difficult to understand and navigate for anyone not active in specific parts of a virtual place, but those special interests group were formed and often purposely visited because they where specifically about that interest and not a mishmash of other things. Most obviously Twitter but social media, web 2.0 and whatnot only exist because many people wanted a digitized and often dumbed down version of newpapers and live in short attentian span bubbles.
Funneling anything in just one place makes it easier for a community manager and to get official information out just in one place, but it naturally lessens the interest of (some) the most active users that where there because it was exactly what interested them.
Before Twitter, Discord, Facebook, Blogs companies also were able to tell potential customers and already customers everything, but all these specific subsets of the internet made their life probably harder, certainly forgeting to post message xyz on this and that and their target audience's minds narrower, expecting only their news and not wanting to read anything not concerning what thex want.
I get it, special divisions are maybe difficult to understand and navigate for anyone not active in specific parts of a virtual place, but those special interests group were formed and often purposely visited because they where specifically about that interest and not a mishmash of other things. Most obviously Twitter but social media, web 2.0 and whatnot only exist because many people wanted a digitized and often dumbed down version of newpapers and live in short attentian span bubbles.
Funneling anything in just one place makes it easier for a community manager and to get official information out just in one place, but it naturally lessens the interest of (some) the most active users that where there because it was exactly what interested them.
Before Twitter, Discord, Facebook, Blogs companies also were able to tell potential customers and already customers everything, but all these specific subsets of the internet made their life probably harder, certainly forgeting to post message xyz on this and that and their target audience's minds narrower, expecting only their news and not wanting to read anything not concerning what thex want.
KaiserBecks
Member
So when is it coming to r/ps5 though?
Games of Today
Member
This sounds like a really stupid decision in the wake of all the other shit they have going on. They are shooting their selves in the foot like Kinect/Always Online all over again.
I'm sure it'll be fine once they open up a singular sub. But that place is going to be like a communist hive mind. You won't be able to say a single negative thing I bet.
That's usually why there are so many subs for a single game or console. Some people don't want to be in the main sub because their opinions get shit on.
I'm sure it'll be fine once they open up a singular sub. But that place is going to be like a communist hive mind. You won't be able to say a single negative thing I bet.
That's usually why there are so many subs for a single game or console. Some people don't want to be in the main sub because their opinions get shit on.
recursive
Member
Yea fuck reddit. I got perm banned for suggesting someone use the reddit care line. Bunch of snowflakes.
King Dazzar
Member
Dibils2k
Member
worse is people complaining about people complaining about people complaining...
Worse is people complaining about people complaining...
IFireflyl
Gold Member
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
Not familiar with the Xbox subs, but generally I prefer when the subs are more fragmented so I can pick the one that has less tards posting in it.
E.g. r/pcgaming is pretty decent whereas r/pcmasterrace is filled with zero IQ dipshits and painfully unfunny memes. r/worldnews occasionally has some decent and thought-provoking discussion whereas r/news is filled with shrieking circle-jerking progressives
E.g. r/pcgaming is pretty decent whereas r/pcmasterrace is filled with zero IQ dipshits and painfully unfunny memes. r/worldnews occasionally has some decent and thought-provoking discussion whereas r/news is filled with shrieking circle-jerking progressives
Fuck. 
Phil Spencer just fired his fans.
'We are commited to bring you great games on great hardware. We identified some overlaps in our structure, since we won't have any great games, nor any great hardware, we optimized YOU.
Here, has a t-shirt avatar and a backpack profile pic'
Phil Spencer just fired his fans.
'We are commited to bring you great games on great hardware. We identified some overlaps in our structure, since we won't have any great games, nor any great hardware, we optimized YOU.
Here, has a t-shirt avatar and a backpack profile pic'