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AxeManiac
Nov 13, 2000

Always Drinking

Welcome to the Games Forum! Here are some rules:

1. All Forum rules apply here

2. Warez: Don’t talk about how you got things. Don’t ask for help with anything warez related. Don’t post links to sites that host cracks/torrents. This includes talking about certain sites that sell foreign Steam keys that require circumventing security via VPN et al to make use of.

2a. MMORPG Server Emulation is warez for the most part. Goon only and no donations requested/posted/accepted only. Nothing new. Ask a mod before posting your server.

2b. CD-Keys and international laws: If you are dealing with a site that sells you CD-KEYS from other regions than the one you live in, don't talk about. Don't ask how to get around copy right protection or try to debate the legal grey issue with these sites. If you need to VPN to download/activate a title, or even download the game itself, then it is not legal and shady and we could get in trouble. Gifting games to goons in other countries isn't the same thing and will still be allowed.

2c. What about Roms/Abandonware We also allow anything that isn’t commercially available or easily purchased, within reason. Check with a mod before hand. However we do not allow rom sets or random torrents and anyone REQUESTING files will be punished. This is not a file forum.

3. Poor Content: Will not be tolerated. Games is probably the best gaming forum on the planet because of this. We do not tolerate tired, lame, poor, low, no effort posting in all forms. We do not tolerate trolls or console warriors, crusaders or anarchists. We are here to talk about our love and hate of games.

4. Reporting: Report people who break the forum rules. Report people who are being giant dicks. Don’t report people for things like "They disagree with me" or "Has wrong opinion about video game". If your report reason isn't clear, we can't help you. Snitching is a crime, but only tolerated when removing giant dicks.

5. Console Warriors: We hate fanboys. Nobody cares about what system is better, we just like games here. We will put a stop to all cross console bickering and bullshit. You want that, go to gamefaqs

6. Privilege If you mainly post about how disgusted you are with gamers and gamer culture and how everything is wrong and horrible, you are probably not in the right forum. We do not allow people to be racist/homophobic/sexist poo poo heads and will punish anyone who crosses any lines, however we can't make sure this is a trigger free safe place for everyone and still actually talk about anything. We know gamers for the most part of horrible, but so are people, which is why we try to filter out all the assholes and encourage you to report people and not get into pointless derailing topics.

Sub Forums:

Games is a general discussion forum, but sometimes we need secret places to talk about stuff. Check out all the sub forums and Guild forums for dedicated gaming talks.

Private Games for servers and private game information. Passwords, plans for MMO things and other stuff you don't want viewable to the public. NO WAREZ GOD DAMNIT! This is not the hide stuff in it forum.

Traditional Games For Dungeons and Dragons and little plastic statue wars and card games and lonely virgin tears.

HMO MMO Talk about your time wasting online games here

Blizzard Forum For all your diablos and starcrafts and wows

Let's Play is now a forum for your let's playing needs. Post your Let's Play threads in there from now on.

Skyrim and Saint's Row Forum I don't know, go post about stuff man

Contests!

That's right, check the top of the page for any official contests. We work with a lot of cool game companies and host contests whenever possible. You can also check out the Steam Gifting thread in Private Game Servers to enter goon run contests for free games. We are all goons here, we all love free games. If you are a game company/guy making iphone/facebook/indie/real games looking to run a contest, please contact me at axemaniac@somethingawful.com

Need help? Contact any mod!
Feel free to PM any mod with questions or minor requests like fixing tags or titles. But do us a favor and link your thread so we don't have to search for it!

HELP US HELP YOU! - Let's keep the games forum running smooth! You guys rock and gaming is fun, so relax and let's do some posting bout games!

AxeManiac fucked around with this message at Sep 10, 2012 around 22:02

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AxeManiac
Nov 13, 2000

Always Drinking

elpintogrande posted:

There's no denying Kickstarter is becoming a theoretical force in gaming and we all can appreciate the benefits for gamers and developers of cutting out the middleman. If you have a Kickstarter that you want to post please feel free to use The Kickstarter Gaming Thread to introduce your Kickstarter to the forums.

If you feel that you have a really really special game you want to talk about, you can post a thread just for that game, but if it is an active Kickstarter (ongoing fundraising) you MUST get mod approval from now on. Please PM any games mod with the relevant information.

SA is glad to support indie games and indie developers, but we do not want the games forum to be overrun with people trying to raise money. Again, you can seek mod permission via PM to post a thread or you can post about your game in The Kickstarter Gaming Thread.

Once a Kickstarter funded game has finished fundraising it will be treated like any other game. Anyone can post a thread, no permission required.

Thanks for understanding. This is essentially the same policy for fundraising/donations that apply to every other forum on SA.


AxeManiac
Nov 13, 2000

Always Drinking

Amazing Amazon Deals! These are some goon deals!

http://forums.somethingawful.com/sh...hreadid=3523213

Yes, Amazon reached out to us about helping us organize deals for goons. Amazon Tony is here to alert you about deals and answer any questions you have about Amazon. Check out this thread and please stop reporting him for spam, he has permission and is doing a cool thing for us!

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