Right, so there's a lot of spoilers on the internet. It's a fact of life, but seeing as we're a gaming community, and a rather intellectual and considerate one I like to think, doesn't it make sense to avoid spoiling games for each other.
We all know that most Escapists are students, with somewhere around 33% being full time employed based on most of the "How old are you" and "what do you do for a living" polls which means a large quantity of us will play though our games pretty damn quickly due to spare time. Plenty of us are still in high school too. All of that is great but I think many of the community have forgotten (or simply never realised) that spoiling a game that's less than a month old is a fucking horrible thing to do.
I'm obviously upset by the DA2 spoilers that're floating around, and to be honest, with all of the topics going around about it, some are bound to pop in here and there, but I've not had time to finish it and I've seen no less than 5 spoilers in the last half hour on this site. Most from Act 3.
I've also seen ME2 spoilers and ME spoilers. I know ME is old, but so what? Just because someone hasn't played it don't tell them something that could ruin a game for them.
I know that I personally have a somewhat bloated hatred of spoilers (I won't bother reading a book if I know what happens. It just makes me spend the whole time waiting for it. Which is why I don't watch novel-flim adaptations until I've read the book first.) but surely there are others who care at least a little?
I'm not saying don't ever mention "Would you kindly?" because it's a great part of gaming culture (by the way, I can't bring myself to play that game after my brother fucked it for me, was still up to that guy who wants photos when he burst out about "Would you kindly?".)
But don't explain things, or you could even just put them in spoiler tags.
Also, "But it's an old game" doesn't excuse spoilers, Planescape: Torment is an old game, I'd be willing to bet that maybe 10% of escapists who've played it only did so after hearing about it from older people who played it new.
So can we please get some spoiler tags happening in the forums?
Do people even care?
We all know that most Escapists are students, with somewhere around 33% being full time employed based on most of the "How old are you" and "what do you do for a living" polls which means a large quantity of us will play though our games pretty damn quickly due to spare time. Plenty of us are still in high school too. All of that is great but I think many of the community have forgotten (or simply never realised) that spoiling a game that's less than a month old is a fucking horrible thing to do.
I'm obviously upset by the DA2 spoilers that're floating around, and to be honest, with all of the topics going around about it, some are bound to pop in here and there, but I've not had time to finish it and I've seen no less than 5 spoilers in the last half hour on this site. Most from Act 3.
I've also seen ME2 spoilers and ME spoilers. I know ME is old, but so what? Just because someone hasn't played it don't tell them something that could ruin a game for them.
I know that I personally have a somewhat bloated hatred of spoilers (I won't bother reading a book if I know what happens. It just makes me spend the whole time waiting for it. Which is why I don't watch novel-flim adaptations until I've read the book first.) but surely there are others who care at least a little?
I'm not saying don't ever mention "Would you kindly?" because it's a great part of gaming culture (by the way, I can't bring myself to play that game after my brother fucked it for me, was still up to that guy who wants photos when he burst out about "Would you kindly?".)
But don't explain things, or you could even just put them in spoiler tags.
Also, "But it's an old game" doesn't excuse spoilers, Planescape: Torment is an old game, I'd be willing to bet that maybe 10% of escapists who've played it only did so after hearing about it from older people who played it new.
So can we please get some spoiler tags happening in the forums?
Do people even care?
