VIDEO MOD Future of the Games Forum Discussion

I suggested years ago that Games be merged into the JCC. But separating the Star Wars and non-Star Wars games threads into two separate parts of the forum is not an idea I'm a fan of. I understand the rationale behind it, but that means that I wouldn't get any incidental exposure to those threads unless I go look for them in the other forum, and with the minimal output of SW games we have currently, that would be something I would do so rarely that I would soon forget it as a habit. Therefore, my preference would be that all of the threads are joined to the JCC or another suitable forum, or none at all.

 

Games in the JCC makes sense.


Like @Life , splitting SW and none SW out doesn't feel right to me and similarly, I would forget about the other series of threads very quickly and in all honesty would be more likely to inadvertently post it in the JCC anyway.

SW games in the JCC does run counter to the WDNDSWINTJCC stance there but as part of games I suspect would be permissible, we already have a generalised games thread there too which gets a reasonable amount of traffic so this expanding would make sense to me and we have plenty of traffic in the JCC so the threads "could" become more active.



The additional plus point is that the few none JCC posters in games may become more active in the JCC which is better for the overall community there too (Games is a little JJC like in it's general style anyway)

 

As a location in the menus, it's a fair point that the Games forum doesn't get much attention - you really have to go looking for it.

Like the others, I'd veer away from a SW / non-SW game split - if only because there's been incredibly few SW games in the last five years and that looks to continue.

A move could work.

 

I’m totally fine with it the way it is. We have our core gaming group/posters in a nice corner that isn’t exactly hard to find for anyone else when you are scrolling the main page lol.

Might get a bit frustrating trying to find game threads through all the NFL, Political, blah blah threads In Community on really active days.

 

Can you do that on phone? I can see the title color tags before each thread but that’s about it after I get into a forum so I still gotta scroll on active days.

Ex: I click from JCC to Community and that’s as in-depth as I can take it for now.

 

Holy **** that was weird!

 

I've thought about this exact same idea for quite a long time now. For whatever reason a lot of JCC people don't want to come here to discuss video games so I would much prefer to have one central forum. I guess part of it was because Games used to have its own "culture" with its own regular users, in-jokes, and stuff like that but the culture has frankly not existed here for well over a decade.

I agree with not moving over SW game threads. We already have the one thread in JCC for all things Star Wars and the general video games thread too. I feel like if we allow individual SW game threads it will set a precedent where people may start asking for individual SW TV show threads, book threads, comic threads, etc. The mods were flexible enough to give us our one thread and I don't think it needs to go beyond that.

Now if this were to go through, I would imagine some Community members wouldn't be exactly thrilled since it's already a pain to have to navigate through all the dozens of Marvel or "spam" threads that they don't care about so adding in video game threads would just cause more clutter in their minds. With that being said I would suggest moving over only the most active/recent threads (say the first two pages) with everything else getting archived, similar to Community Archives, and if someone wants an old thread un-archived, the mods can do so.

Finally, perhaps this should be moved to Comms? Like I said a lot of JCC regulars don't view this forum and have no idea this is being discussed. But they're much more likely to see a Comms discussion.

 

Merging as a sub forum in JCC makes sense to me, especially with the JCC gamers thread being way more active than this little awesome corner.

Definitely agree that dividing SW games and non-SW games sounds weird, id move them all to JCC together. If you guys do split them though, i would stick the SW ones in Lit since TOR already has a sort of active thread there and most SW games are legends now, with only their stories being discussed ( sans BF2).

My 3.14 cents

 

For my own two cents, I'd prefer the games threads to stay in their own forum. You know as well as I do that there will be some threads in here that could very well be lost in the great beyond in the JCC forum because members there just love to create multiple threads dealing with the same topic (for example, there's two active 2019 Oscar threads right now).

 

Of course there's a new thread for every Marvel and or DC character getting their own feature film; even though there's a general DC Universe and Marvel films threads.

 

I'm happy with how it's setup right now. I see no need to change anything.

 

Maybe it's just me, but I've come across at least a handful of fairly obnoxious members in the JCC that I haven't had to deal with in any of the other forums (at least not in several years since Ahsoka wasn't such a big fixture). And yes, I know I could say something to the mod of the day within those forums; but odds are they're already friends with that member so they might just relay the message to them with a chuckle a the end.

 

some mod favourite etc etc

 

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He’s agreeing with your last statement.

 

Wasn't really agreeing or disagreeing to be honest. It just reminded me of the old "some mod favourite" post.

 

I think if you're going to move the Games Forum to the JCC that it should be all or nothing and Star Wars related games shouldn't be put some place else.

As a suggestion, maybe you'd want to think about creating a tag in the JCC called "Entertainment" and get rid of Amphitheatre. This tag could be used for Games & Gaming (the topics of this forum), as well as the many Movie and TV related threads.

I'd also suggest renaming the JCC's yellow "Games" to "Interactive" or "Fun & Games" or "Fun" to avoid confusion if and when this Games Forum is moved to the JCC.

While you're at it, I wouldn't mind if "Arena" was renamed to "Sports".

 

So what's the latest on this?