They need to separate the forums for single player and multiplayer. Maybe that way they will quickly be able to see that MP is the only thing most of the community is really talking about. Could provoke them to throw more resources that way. They still have 9 months, and if they would really consider making any changes based on this feedback, it would need to start now. Normally I would say let's wait and see, but listing the game as "Online Multiplayer- 1 to 10 players", has really gotten a lot of us concerned.
Perhaps a further discrimination can be made:
1. Ubisoft's FC5 game (the FC5 story, characters and abilities)
2. Multiplayer community (player count, modes, server/session browser etc)
3. Map Editor community (Editor interface, cross-platform maps, map making hints/showcases, publishing, etc).
It doesn't need a divided forum.
You can make a thread entitled "People who prefer MP over SP post here"
At this late stage in a games development, I think the only changes that would take place would be any that were unavoidable, definitely none to appease some fans. But you should still compile a wishlist for future games. Feedback does get passed on.
Some do care about MP, others about SP.
Actually, FC is a game based on SP. When you talk about Far Cry to someone, he'll most often talk about exotic locales, stories of survival and crazy opponents. MP isn't the game's main concern. Cause if it was, we would only have a map editor. Most of the game's buyers aren't looking for a MP first (I'm not talking about campaign coop). No reason to divide the forum.
I like all the extra features and options that these games have, because it gives something to everyone.. As Hortys suggested, if the forum was going to be divided it would be nice to put all the negative people in one group and keep all the positive rational people here (I could get behind that 100%) but as it's a forum we all get an equal say and everyone is welcome, because sometimes opposing views bring up new ideas.
If a sub forum was made for MP only and there were so few posting there... it might make Ubi consider removing MP altogether and putting more content into SP, but that would never happen because as Terry427 rightly points out.. the silent majority.
We are less than 1% of the people who will buy FC5 and we may well be core fans but our opinions may not reflect the majority (whether that be SP or MP or anything else) so dividing the forum would never be good regardless of whatever it is intended to achieve.
FC fans are FC fans regardless of whether they like MP, SP or bothso we should stay together.
This.Originally Posted by HorTyS Go to original post
But it might not bring in new people if it was separate.... surely keeping it in the main forum would keep it prominent and make new people check out the thread?Originally Posted by GRAW2ROBZ Go to original post
I agree with you 100%. My point was NOT that MP is why people buy the game. Far from it. I'll be buying the game regardless because I love the single player. I was just saying it appears the majority of this community seems to be talking about multiplayer. Most forums I've been part of have sub-forums for SP and MP. I remember for FC3 there was a sub-forum specifically for map makers. I'm certainly not advocating to split the community. I just think it would be good idea at this point to create those sub-forms. Besides, all the decent single player threads are being buried too fast to get any attention.Originally Posted by angstik Go to original post