Why are reddit forums not as negative?

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People think Blizzard is more likely to see their comments here, so negativity goes here.

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Both at once. People that want to be positive are clicking into positive threads and downvoting dissenters. The same happens with negative threads and positive users. So it really depends on the crowd

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From what I’ve seen, reddit conversations go like this:

Person 1: “Overwatch shouldn’t be doing this.”
Person 2: “I agree.”

While forum conversations go like this:

Person 1: “Overwatch shouldn’t be doing this.”
Person 2: “Come on, its only $10. Are you poor?”.

And you can click my name and read my replies to see what I’m talking about.

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Reddit doesn’t allow it. It’s censored.

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Literally nobody:
Weird Forum Fanboys: What you cant afford a new phone and celular plan to play OW2?

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Person 2 should be ASHAMED on themselves. ASHAMED I say.

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are we looking at the same subreddit?

/r/overwatch is mostly negative

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50% of the forum appear to shut-ins who play Support and resident trolls who live to complain.

2/3 of the Doomers will play it though, whining all the way about each Battlepass. It will give them something to do. Really the forums are so foul and one-sided these days I may just move on and find a good Discord.

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ALL official video game forums are in average less hopeful for their game, it is a fact of life.

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Well there’s likely more positivity on Reddit because there’s more users. But you should go to Reddit, find a positive post, and read the comments.

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It’s because these forums are mostly a bunch of hardstuck bronze/silver/gold ranked players who are just mad cause OW 2 is probably going to make them go down to wood rank so they’d rather cancel the game than adapt.

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Reddit has a built in recency bias as well as an echochamber bias which disincentivises disagreement with whatever the main opinion of the people viewing the thread is. Moderators on reddit are also more willing to shape the conversation by stealth deleting comments, as well as deleting threads in which the conversation is not going as expected.

It is also very easy to manipulate how visible posts are on reddit compared with a forum like this. On this forum, the popularity of a comment has no bearing on how visible it is, which incentivises manipulation from interest groups, organised discords and paid upvoting operations. Be glad that not everywhere on the internet is like reddit.

Over here, you can’t censor people with just a group of a bots, it requires a hostile moderator acting in bad faith, which isn’t common yet.

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Let me fix it for you:

Person 1: “OW2 sucks and it will fail! I hate it more with every news they put out! Its ridiculous how everything is priced!”

Person 2: “Come on, its not that bad! The only thing gameplaywise is locked behind a pay or playwall and 10 bucks every 4 months is not that bad!”

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It’s definitely had plenty of negativity. Where have you been?

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Oh, you mean kind of like how every thread that says something postitive about OW 2 gets tagged by 20 people to get hidden?

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This thread is a perfect example of why this system is superior to reddit. About 20 different opinions, and none of them can be censored by a mob.

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Not really it is easier to coordinate positive feedback then negative, especially when most likely the mods on that forum prolly favor the game and company.

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Reddit is mostly negative too, and heavily moderated.

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If you think person 2 is acting like some kind hearted angels saying “Come on, $10 isn’t that bad!” you’re deluded. I’ve had people outright saying “No one is being affected by the phone numbers. You’re lying”, and “$10 isn’t that bad. Stop acting poor” and yes, even unironically “just get a new phone. Just get a new phone cell phone number”.

This IS a problem even if you want to paint one side as just the villain. Keep in mind, I don’t expect you to make excuses for those against Overwatch, but I don’t appreciate the lying and soft balling for your side.

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I dont talk about extremes and “stop acting poor” should be reported and blocked. Simple as that. I see now that people have problems with the number stuff because they just dont have the option do change it. Blizz should look into this but something like “I dont WANT to put my number in” or “OW1 system was a lot better why not keep it?” are just as deluded.

I might “softball” things because they are not a big issue for me personally. The phone number stuff was something I did not even knew caused so much problems because I never really thought that some people pay monthly but are not allowed to use the number. It was a mistake from my point.

In the end I try to be realistic and neither “chill for blizz” or “be a doomer” because I mostly look what other games do and then look at OW2 and it really does not look bad at all.