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[Loony BoB]

*removes the completely unnecessary bold and underline tags*

Okay.

Originally Posted by Dignified Pauper

Note, i never said anything about their graphical change being bad, nor did I imply it, please don't imply that I did. I never said it wasn't a turning point, it is obvious in fact, however, we're never going to have another drastic turning point such as this, it will be continually gradual from now on, so once we get to FFXIX or XX, assuming they get that far and that it doesn't matter that we won't be here, we'd be in the same boat as we are now. Also, there is a HUGE graphical lunge between III to IV, not by dimension, but rather by sheer color and detail.

Not as huge as the difference between VI and VII, though. And you do realise that FFXIX won't be released for about 5-10 years, right? We can deal with that problem when the need arises.

Well, my system wasn't to list them by consoles individually, but rather the generation of systems (that is the time period) of which the game would be released. I thought that was obvious, thus I avoided things being released by console and rather just slumped the group of systems released at the same time under the same generation, which they are. Also, what is wrong with having 3 games per category?

It's really messy.

Is that really a problem?

Yes.

We have the reference section with 3 forums and the staff section with 1 forum.

The staff category actually contains a lot more than three forums. The reference category is completely different to the other categories, too, because the stuff there simply doesn't fit into any other category. The split of the Square category, if it goes ahead, wouldn't be to tidy up the forums while keeping the category system as simple as possible at the same time.

What is it going to hurt to help the future of EoFF out in order so they don't have to go through the hassle of re-arranging the forum once again. I'm not understanding the logic that the future simply doesn't matter.

The future doesn't matter because the future isn't the present. The present is our priority. The future will matter in however many years down the line. I mean, you don't see us creating the FFXIII forum just now, do you? There's a good reason for that. It's not the future yet. When the time comes, we will create that forum. Until the time comes, there is no need for it. When the time comes, we may further split the categories. Until the time comes, there is no need for it. This isn't a "look to the future" thing. This is a "Tidy up the forums" thing. Reorganising isn't exactly something we're entirely limited to and we can simply adjust whenever we see the need to do so. It's not hard, man. Don't freak out that we might have to readjust in a year or in five years or whatever - we can handle that. We'll keep deaths at a minimum.

Square isn't really going that slowly at all. Especially in the way American standards are going. From FFII to FFIV, we had to skip FFIII, and the same with FFIV to FFVI. We had to wait for FFV's creation. Also, these were all spaced out by relatively a year to a year and a half which is the release dates now per FF game. Just because Square took time from the number system to add in X-2, chronicles, tactics advance, doesn't mean they are going slower, it means they are adding games in the same amount of time. Also, Square has been doing is remakes of games, which are being released in the same amount of time as all their other games. This doesn't mean Square is going slower, it just means they've taken a break from the numbering in the series. It is bound to pick back up after the release of III enhanced version.

Either way, it'll be a long time before we see any huge need to change the proposed three-category system. It's taken, at a guess, 11-12 new forums before we even considered splitting the Square category (ie, now). That's six years, man. Six years. That's a long time. Also, as I said, it doesn't matter if we reorganise the forums every year, so long as it's best layout given the forums that are actually there.

I don't mean to seem like a jerk and try to be difficult, but I just think it'd be in everyone's best interest if we sorted it up by gaming generation.

I don't mean to be a jerk or to appear difficult either, but I totally disagree. With such things that can be changed in seconds, like this, and that do not cause a single problem outside aesthetics, there is no drama when it comes to "planning for the future" because we can simply deal with the future problems when they come up, but they won't be problems for some time so... well... there's no problem.

You really should avoid using bold underline all up and down your post like that, btw. It doesn't look good at all, especially from someone with a journalism background of some sort. It makes it difficult to read.

Regardless, we're discussing all of this in Staff now so I'm sure you guys will see the end result when we get there.

[Miriel]

What's the big deal? Just mix it up and put FFXI at the top of the list.

[Dignified Pauper]

Originally Posted by Loony BoB

You really should avoid using bold underline all up and down your post like that, btw. It doesn't look good at all, especially from someone with a journalism background of some sort. It makes it difficult to read.

Actually, it's more common than you might think, but it's more involved within scholarly essays in the emphasis of the overall points since most of what they say is drivel, which I won't lie, a lot of what I say tends to be drivel

[Loony BoB]

I just assume that everything that I say is drivel, thus making any emphasis on any of my words utterly pointless.

[Raistlin]

We all assume that everything you say is drivel too, BooB, thus making actually reading anything you post utterly pointless.

oh snap

[Loony BoB]

Originally Posted by Raistlin

We all assume that everything you say is drivel too, BooB, thus making actually reading anything you post utterly pointless.

oh snap

And yet you keep on reading them.

[Raistlin]

[Del Murder]

Of course he reads them, or else he'd have nothing to complain about.