Kickstarter Update #85 - Release approaches / New Playable

Yeah. At these forums we definitely put a lot of work into ensuring everyone can have a nice, chill time, and I'd say we've done a pretty good job of that while also allowing space for complaints and criticism. Kickstarter, on the other hand...one of the problems with it is that it's quite difficult to moderate comments effectively, or even add people to the discussion--I backed for 500 dollars, but since I did so on Paypal, I've never been able to participate in them.

I decided to stay away from looking at the comments on the kickstarter site after reading some of the comments. So I'm sticking to only reading comments here as they aren't as toxic.

We always have been thus, with only very rare spikes otherwise that come with sudden surges of activity. 2-3 ever maybe?

To be fair though, "being disruptive" is a hard thing to moderate for when we want to and have tried our best to not silence voices whether they're positive or negative. No sensible criticism will be shot down here, and we permit anger and general discontent too, but only to a point. That "point" is a rough thing to define, and generally until now we haven't much had to define it either though.

It's funny, because at baseline all the while before, we were accused of being a positivity echo chamber for the game while the above has always been our policy. That perception was only because it was so unusual that we had someone post negative things, and at times Mike and myself had nearly encouraged it to avoid looking like "shill forum" as it seemed to be at first glance ;p

This place is official and has been for years, but it's still fan-run, and in the best interest of the game's grassroots nature and all fans having their voice, we intend to keep it this way - I still trust that we as a community and as a whole can talk freely about how we feel without policing negativity. It's just the right thing, imo, but we always keep a watchful eye on conduct and intent.

purifyweirdshard The way some forums and subreddits do it is that when a particular subject starts getting spammed too much in multiple threads, they create a stickied megathread and restrict conversation about said topic to that thread alone.  It allows conversation to continue for those who want to participate without degrading the signal-to-noise ratio for everyone else.  I think that in some cases, these update threads should be exempt from that as long as the update itself is relevant to the topic(and no, not getting new information that you wanted to see in the update doesn't constitute relevancy), but I do think that such an action is warranted here in some cases. 

I don't need this place to be a hug box or anything; we've had disagreements on this forum in the past.  But when some people keep spamming the same comments about the same topic in every thread - especially when they are doing so for the explicitly stated purpose of provoking a response - it brings down the community for the rest of us.  It is my opinion that we are well past the point of something needing to be done about it.  Suggestions and light warnings have both been given to individuals, but the problem could more cleanly be solved by simply implementing and enforcing rules common to other forums without targeting any one poster.  Just a quick "hey, we've noticed this subject coming up a lot, and in order to keep things more on topic, we're creating a thread for that.  Please move all conversation of that nature over there for now." and keep it stickied while it's still relevant and being discussed.  

I understand the desire not to be seen as censoring, and to let all opinions have an equal place in the community, but if no moderation or organization is performed at all, you risk having the opposite problem, where the people just wanting to discuss the game in a casual environment leave or go to lurk mode because the place is perceived to be one giant gripe fest.  You've already seen some posts to that effect in this very thread.  It's not too far from there until the place is basically little different than the KS comment section, just with the most venomous elements blunted a bit.

The more important question should be: On how many platforms am I going to play this game? 

The big day.. errr night is almost there... 

Would anyone here give me any (serious) advice on how to get my questions answered? Thanks in advance.

The Japanese physical copies are tied in with Japanese publishing efforts. So regardless of where you live, the Japanese physical version will be delayed getting to you.