Pretty ironic to see people here talking about the atmosphere at NG.com. It's more similar to this place than to any other gaming forum that I can think of.
Not really. Similar, due to being about a niche console, but NG is a lot more vile. Way way larger, way way more inflated egos involved. There is a great tech support setup there, but outside of that the drama is a lot worse. Back stabbing admins/mods, lots of shill bidders, flippers, high dollar scammers constantly appearing, drug dealers, Neotropolis, supposed framed murderers, etc. All this shit over a system that had what, maybe 160 games to its name, most of which can be beaten in under 40 mins?
This forum is smaller and more maintained, and we don't have people bickering about prior drug deals, $30k scams, or murder trials. We have our problems here, but in no way do they compare to those of the Neo forums.
Also, and this will always be a stickler for me. When Dean was having issues prior there and I called him out for it, I remember taking a lot of flak for it there, even though I was in the right. Dean was having major customer service issues, the writing was on the wall. The same people then turned on Dean themselves eventually when it became self serving. When he went back there to try to make things right they tore him apart, again. I believe one of them, the stone throwers, Tonk, was then themselves involved in the 30k scam.
For all of Dean's f*ck ups, his was more of a issue about taking on too much work, not knowing when to just f*cking say no. He never went out of his way to scam anyone with fake carts and other shit. He didn't deserve the treatment he got when he went back to make things right, so that one rubbed me a bit wrong. He isn't the only one I have known to have issues there, none there own fault (quoth09 comes to mind). Wasabi and others seemed to have a hard on for starting shit and being an all around ass with moderator abuse or jacking up post counts with hard core trolling being their daily goal.
If Neo-Geo.com was an actual building with all those characters residing in it, and they had a fire..... Well, I cant think of too many people outside of actual members there who would oppose of dousing the place with a lot of gas to make sure it burned down proper..... Then, like when they fire a mini nuke at Louisville, Kentucky in ROTLD, I'd not be surprised if we did the same. It's the only way to be sure. A place with so low a moral compass as Neo-Geo.com shouldn't exist. The NeoGeo was a good system that can stand on its own and has a fan base on about any game system forum. It doesn't need a wanna be version of the Secret Society of Super-Villains to champion it.
