Judging by the forums for that game, more than simple bans are warranted.

Did this thread got ironic.

引用自 alex-spieleder：

Now the hammer with onlye buyers are alllowed to post( btw its not even out yet)

IMHO that's how game forums should be during release. It allows the actual customers to discuss the game and contains all the noise away. At least until trolls find another thing to be fake-angry about.

Wasn't thatbthe latest forum that got overrun by trolls/right ranting about "woke"?

引用自 ReBoot：

Wasn't thatbthe latest forum that got overrun by trolls/right ranting about "woke"?

Yup. Now they're no longer able to do so and are unhappy.

引用自 ReBoot：

Wasn't thatbthe latest forum that got overrun by trolls/right ranting about "woke"?

Funny thing is, I can't see anything that's "woke" about the game.

The only issue is a supposed link to SBI.

They have an Open Forum sub-forum for non-owners.

引用自 Boblin the Goblin：

引用自 ReBoot：

Wasn't thatbthe latest forum that got overrun by trolls/right ranting about "woke"?

Funny thing is, I can't see anything that's "woke" about the game.

The only issue is a supposed link to SBI.

"Woke" is like "communism", the term doesn't mean ♥♥♥♥ except "I don't like", said by some right-wing.

引用自 Aluvard：

Yup. Now they're no longer able to do so and are unhappy.

I wish other devs caught up and started locking their forum to owners-only to cut the fun of all that toxic brigading when it happens.

引用自 Tito Shivan：

引用自 Aluvard：

Yup. Now they're no longer able to do so and are unhappy.

I wish other devs caught up and started locking their forum to owners-only to cut the fun of all that toxic brigading when it happens.

Oh, I completely agree. Frankly that should be an official Steam policy regarding any new releases - most of the game forums being owners only for e.g. first 6 months.

引用自 Aluvard：

引用自 Tito Shivan：

I wish other devs caught up and started locking their forum to owners-only to cut the fun of all that toxic brigading when it happens.

Oh, I completely agree. Frankly that should be an official Steam policy regarding any new releases - most of the game forums being owners only for e.g. first 6 months.

That idea is something I pushed a while back myself (got quite a few people angrily disagreeing).

An issue I can see is if you are intending to buy the game, but the game hasn’t come out, and the game doesn’t have preorders, then you lose the word of mouth advertising/hype that a lot of smaller games benefit from with people talking about the game on its forums here.

And if you have preorders enabled you’re going to get a lot of people abusing the refund to troll.

Same might be a problem for owners only; trolls buy the game, spam until they get banned, and then refund.

At my current level of thought on the matter you’d have to be able to purchase a nonrefundable chit that grants you early access to the forum and is exchangeable for an equivalent amount off the purchase of the game or something.

For the other issue of general refund trolling however it might just be “you can’t use the game owner forum until you’ve played 2 hours”.

引用自 ReBoot：

引用自 Boblin the Goblin：

Funny thing is, I can't see anything that's "woke" about the game.

The only issue is a supposed link to SBI.

"Woke" is like "communism", the term doesn't mean ♥♥♥♥ except "I don't like", said by some right-wing.

It’s incredible that people still think this, “woke” is a shortened term to describe far-left ideology. It’s a popular term used in the media and culturally so it’s bordering on dishonesty to claim not to know what it means, and communism’s is a failed 20th century social system that cause more death and destruction than any other ideology known to man.

引用自 Boblin the Goblin：

引用自 ReBoot：

Wasn't thatbthe latest forum that got overrun by trolls/right ranting about "woke"?

Funny thing is, I can't see anything that's "woke" about the game.

The only issue is a supposed link to SBI.

The CEO of SBI was caught on camera making some disgraceful racist comments and normal people with a functioning brain despise racism so SBI involvement is generally enough to warrant sever backlash from anti-racists.

引用自 Aluvard：

Oh, I completely agree. Frankly that should be an official Steam policy regarding any new releases - most of the game forums being owners only for e.g. first 6 months.

There's no need for it to be that long. Usually the need for monetisation means outrage baiters need to find fresh sources of outrage as the last ones stop trending after a couple weeks.

In a fortnight or a month trolls and toxic users have usually found another trendy thing someone said them to be angry about (Sure there's some exceptions where toxicity lingers for longer).

引用自 Sciencemile：

An issue I can see is if you are intending to buy the game, but the game hasn’t come out, and the game doesn’t have preorders, then you lose the word of mouth advertising/hype that a lot of smaller games benefit from with people talking about the game on its forums here.

Steam requires to leave at least a section open to everyone if you lock your forums to owners-only. That way people who don't own the game can still ask questions and the toxicity is all encapsulated in that space while the general forums operate as normal for game owners.

引用自 Shreddy：

The CEO of SBI was caught on camera making some disgraceful racist comments and normal people with a functioning brain despise racism so SBI involvement is generally enough to warrant sever backlash from anti-racists.

I'm actually curious. Is there a link where I can see what was exactly said?

引用自 Tito Shivan：

引用自 Shreddy：

The CEO of SBI was caught on camera making some disgraceful racist comments and normal people with a functioning brain despise racism so SBI involvement is generally enough to warrant sever backlash from anti-racists.

I'm actually curious. Is there a link where I can see what was exactly said?

Not unless all context were stripped away from it because that context would annihilate their talking points.

Where do they come from, and why do they come here?