If EA doesn’t want to “KICK” people

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@UP_Hawxxeye wrote:

@ForumUser
As long as feedback is given properly and in a civil manner, there is always hope that it will reach someone. We can always keep upvoting it and repeating it.

Kindness and politeness can be disarming

Meanwhile any misdemeanor will give your detractors grounds to ignore you or even to retaliate against you.

So it is better to either give polite feedback or none at all (apathy can be more powerful than hate in entertainment)

@ragnarok013 I wish the game teams would finally realize that the social media are an awful place to hang out and that they should instead return to the relative safety of these official forums like during the good old days

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@UP_Hawxxeye social media is indeed a double edged sword but I believe that the benefits outweigh the negatives. It allows the devs to interact with the community and even form bonds with them which leads to a more complete and healthy exchange of perspectives and feedback which allows players to see that the devs are humans and are often sympathetic to our requests even if they can't implement our requests for business reasons.  It also allows the devs to get to know the community and see that we're not all a bunch of toxic bomb throwers sending them death threats in their DMs and doxxing them online which probably helps them continue on in their job.

Old DICE's forum and social media presence on Battlelog and on Twitter lead to some very awesome interactions and really build the modern "Best Community in the World" as well as friendships, and directly lead to community events like FridayNightBattlefield that has been going on since 2012 when EA_Rick and I founded it after we started playing together for mutual protection against DICE Hunters and our friends started joining us.