Yup It's for the best. InArt still takes feedback but only from valid comments with actual reference rather then everyone saying one thing altogether. In my opinion as long as they follow real film photo references it's fine.
And Nanjin.
That's why I left a few facebook groups and only lurk and check for news/updates in the ones I'm still in. It just takes one missunderstanding for a fight to break out and often the "innocent" get punished/banned.
This is honestly why I won't sign up as a supporter here despite the messages asking me to do so. When I first joined here 7 years ago there were a handful of companies that still interacted with their customers. Now, it's just a few, and basically none here. It's frustrating. I don't know why the mods haven't done more to shut down the people who are just jerks to the companies that took the time to chat with us.
Because that isn't something exclusive to this forum. There's a huge gaming forum, ResetEra that used to be called NeoGAF. A huge gaming forum that housed a ton of members from various big gaming companies. They would interact and talk with members there, which was quite rare and not done on other forums.
It's not surprising. The internet gets more toxic and entitled year over year. People just fire from the hip when staring at screen as opposed to talking to another human.
I can totally understand... With all the respect I'd say to just ignore that mob. I know this advice sounds basic as hell,but that's what you need to do. We love you very much and we are grateful for all the hard work you and Limtoys do. Main reason I was back to this forum is you and Arthur. Take your time,heal and keep going! I'll be always happy to see you there or anywhere else, can't wait to the new Limtoys projects!
Won’t pretend like I fully understand the technicalities or that I’m innocent of contributing towards negativity for certain products myself, but unfortunately I think there’s an overarching consumer culture right now which combines modern internet rage/entitlement with a sharp distrust towards companies that is often grossly misdirected towards groups and individuals truly trying their best.
As I said earlier there is a big difference between expressing your disagreement in a polite way/demand things and act like a savage. We are all adults here,collecting dolls... we need to respect each other and have fun,unfortunately lot of people crossed the line many times, so I can totally understand how R_R_X or other ppl feel. I'm an artist myself and stopped posting my art on social media for a same reason. I have seen lot of hurtful comments here especially recently.
Off topic but that's not what happened to NeoGAF. lol Everyone left GAF in 2017 when it was discovered the owner had sexually assaulted someone when they were a staunch supporter of the MeToo movement and all that. The majority of the of the community including devs left and severed ties with the forum leading to a "reset" and thus a new forum was started - ResetEra.
Part of that is due to the way this forum makes money. It's a completely different animal to Dave's Sideshow Freaks, because it only exists to make money, and only exists because it can make money.
Rather than extracting money from members to allow them to sell, as Dave did, they extract it from businesses instead. That creates a whole different dynamic, because all businesses have to pay for the privilege to talk to customers and potential customers.
That applies to all representatives of businesses. It was handy that some of them had quite anonymous sounding usernames, and happened to slip under the radar.
Asmus is a weird one. The rules under the forum's new ownership blocked them from advertising and communicating. They said they had so much to say but weren't allowed to say it, and eventually became a sponsor so they could say it. Once they were legally able to post, they decided not to.
He had a hissy fit and announced his departure, because the forum membership wouldn't stroke his ego and show him absolute positivity.
The forum also didn't offer him a free platform to advertise and communicate unless he became a sponsor. Since he hates this place sponsorship would be unlikely. With all his sock accounts banned he had no voice, so retreated to the echo chamber of his Facebook page. I read he sends an employee in every Monday to screencap all the negativity.
