User blog:Hydrozen/The Issue With Games

When I say "games", I refer to mostly thread games, but the same logic applies to map games so don't accuse me of being hypocritical just yet (you know exactly what or who I'm talking about here). A dump of low quality map games would warrant a similar call-out post from me.

Thread games can be very fun and engaging, take MITW as an example, or some of the classics that remain very simple, such as Borders. However, recent issues have risen that I feel need to be pointed out.

First of all, the standard for thread games has plummeted. New threads like Languages and Words, which are in my opinion, not only unoriginal, but repetitive and arbitrary, are primary examples. Sure, one may argue that Borders and Cities have practically the same rules, but that draws from knowledge related to mapping and geography, particularly Borders. You have to know which country borders what, and for cities you have to know a particular city beginning with that one letter. Perhaps the argument works better for Borders than Cities, but like I said, Cities is not a thread game based on completely arbitrary parameters like Words.

Secondly, the way thread games are played has suffered degeneration. What used to be creative and interesting turns in thread games like Corrupt A Wish or Future of the World have been reduced to things like:

Person A: I wish for apple Person B: You get a pear

Or turns like:

Person A: I wish for butts/😩/EEEEEEEEEEEEE This is comparable to spam or edit farming. The Counting Game is blatantly a ploy for edits but sure, we'll overlook that. I could literally start a thread game named "Alphabets" and the whole gist of it is to do a chain of letters in alphabetical order.

The whole thing boils down to one thing: quality. Most newer thread games lack this attribute, sure they contribute to activity, but at the cost of allowing spam? I understand that most people who play these thread games have none of their precious time to devote to developing anything of substance to this wiki, and they have no obligation to. There is absolutely nothing wrong in being here only for thread games, of which carbon copies exist elsewhere on sites like the Polandball Wiki or the Hypothetical Hurricanes Wiki, an endless repetition of arbitrary values with no sum contribution to anything other than activity.

To put it bluntly, it's become a mindless regurgitation of arbitrary values, crude comedy, random unrelated symbol-vomits and a painfully obvious lack of any consideration for creating value on this wiki.

In conclusion, this is just an opinion. I have no intention of removing any such thread games at this time nor in the future. Ignorance towards these low quality thread games will be my bliss. Hydrozen out.