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Old 01-07-2013, 02:12 AM
WTE_Galway WTE_Galway is offline
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Originally Posted by Skoshi Tiger View Post
No one minds constructive criticism, it's the way improvements are made and it's a way feedback is given to the developers of a product.

The problem with CoD is that some of its critics acted in a vexatious manner. People went out of their way to heap crap on the sim for a more than year before its release. They were destructive in their criticism and went out of their way to disrupt the forum by making controversial posts. They were the classic internet trolls and some of them are still popping back to this forum to cause trouble. This is unacceptable by any standards.

These trolls may or may not have killed CoD but they sure made the forum unpleasant. Thankfully a lot of them have new places to devote their attention to. Good luck to them!
The pre-release troll-fest was hilarious.

If someone brought up genuine issues like the wrong type of instruments fitted to aircraft they were ignored while meanwhile people argued for 150 pages about what the "correct" color of the flax fields in 1930s Britain was