I want to address a few things that I've seen spark a bit of a discussion. Hopefully I can clear up a thing or two.
The quote you are responding to in this post was in direct response to someone specifically asking me what it's like to deal with people being rude on the forums. It's kind of silly to call that out without context and then tell people that it's just me whining about it, as if I made my own thread to say it. I wasn't calling our community rude; I was saying that rudeness does occasionally occur. We wouldn't need an infraction system and a team of moderators if that wasn't true!
As for closing threads on the 2K Forums: We are always exploring ways to make the forums a more useful place for people to discuss whatever they want to discuss. We invite all feedback, negative or otherwise. The threads that we were closing a lot last week were the countless "My personal review" threads we were seeing come up several times an hour. The problem is most of these threads were something saying mostly the same things that every other personal review was saying, and it was making it difficult for anyone to find threads that weren't the same thing as most of the others.
It's no different than you find here: When there were countless threads popping up about why this or that civilization is not included in the game, the moderators made the decision to create a single thread for this discussion and closed any new ones that were created. Edit: My mistake; it looks like these types of threads were forbidden completely for a period. It was Steam discussion that was asked to remain in a few main threads.
Our developers and producers use our forums to get feedback either directly or by our community team (for Civ, it's me mainly) giving them overviews of what the community is talking about. When the forums become disorganized and impossible to navigate, it is much more difficult and time consuming (and sometimes impossible, depending on the volume of posts) to get that constructive information.
And finally, regarding not posting here on CFC: Having more of a presence here is something I would like to do eventually. However, I am only one man and right now just monitoring and getting info from the 2K Forums is more than a full time job. I quite simply don't have enough time to monitor multiple forums right now, and since the 2K Forums are our primary point of communication with the community, that's where my attention must lie. If you want to reach me directly, I always invite you to email me at
2KGreg@2KGames.com.