Well actually I feel it is important to mention why I hate quests. Two main reasons. One, because no one told me it was going to happen so I could spam my way to gold king. Now I can't get those quests. And I'm butthurt. Really butthurt.
Two, the quests erroneously display the ranks as silver, not iron. This makes me really angry.
First I saw Xzeno's mentioning of the, albeit slight, boost in community activity as a paraphrased "trifling". Then I saw this. I have to admit I chuckled.
So it's not because of the elements of the quests, how they are presented, the classes of quests, hell, even the blunt fact that it's inspired from Kongregate, but because of how a difficulty of quest is named and you couldn't break a fundamental gear grinder in Internet policy to grab threshold quests? It hilariously conveys the imagery of a Civil War veteran in the 21-first century ranting about the upgrade from horse-and-buggy to automobile with headlights and about how the Good ol' Days were better (psychologically, the Good ol' Days seem better to those who reminisce about it, though they forget most parts of said eras that they either didn't witness or force upon themselves to stamp it out of their minds).
That's another problem with quests I feel. They make me feel a bit violated. Like, I didn't want one, the game just sprung it on me and stuck it to my profile while I wasn't looking.
Just like other features!
As a follow-up to my previous comment, I've pretty much decided to not run any sort of prose contest in AMW. I can't think of a good follow-up to the twiction contest that would actually involve merit prizes.
You don't have to lead, but you can always follow. Stimulate forum activity--Participate in an AMW thread today! Man, I'm good with propaganda slogans.
...or any other thread for that matter.
SINCE WHEN HAS VOIDY BEEN BACK?
You must have forgotten that Voidy is a less-romantic Patrick Swayze and drifts along in the twilight to fight spam in a ghostly fashion.
The issue is that the ranks were iron. They were at no point silver. The ranks were iron and the quests do not accurately reflect that. It's arbitrary, but it was one way and not the other. Why change it? No one has ever answered that. The administration failed utterly to address the question when I raised it, despite posting a few times on the thread. I just asked a question and it became like pulling teeth, and I still don't have an answer.
I hear in the cybernetic world of ArmorGames, the names of Iron and Silver on badges users receive when passing through a threshold held such controversial stances (even in the faces of moderators who placed such opinions of their own on their profile wall) that the administration has taken a major foot forward in their system updates, since 2007, the names magically has no discernible effects on anything users obtain :O
People wonder why the community is in such a sorry state, but with that level of incompetence and anti-consumer activity in the area of support, how could you expect it to be otherwise?
Because names and obscure trifles have an instrumental impact on the apathy and ability of several hundred community members, right?
