GT5 DLC on retail-voucher cards - spot the error

[MSTER232]

It's not too much to ask that threads have reasonably descriptive titles, especially in our busiest and most frequented subforum. It's better for everyone, and it ultimately saves time. Thanks for the suggestion, Amar 👍

+1 👍 .

 

[twitcher]

Yeah, non descriptive thread titles should be against AUP, they are in a lot of forums. Banning words like ''epic'' and ''fail''? As bad as Hitler? No, but very bad idea. People who like sensorship only like their own KIND of sensorship.

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It's not too much to ask that threads have reasonably descriptive titles, especially in our busiest and most frequented subforum. It's better for everyone, and it ultimately saves time. Thanks for the suggestion, Amar 👍

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I reread my first post, and felt I should clarify. I'm all for more descriptive thread titles, but I am opposed to censorship of any kind. That's where my beef with Amar's post comes from.

 

[SnakeEyes427]

Opps

 

[amar212]

I reread my first post, and felt I should clarify. I'm all for more descriptive thread titles, but I am opposed to censorship of any kind. That's where my beef with Amar's post comes from.

Okay, I maybe went to harsh with the "ban the word" bit, but the "fail this, fail that" threads have really become annoying.

I just used a simple search and discovered dozens of topics only in this section that have "fail" or "epic" in their titles, and guess what - none of them really informs about anything nor id adds anything to the community-knowledge.

Take a look at this:

Big fail for PD!
updating when returning to 24hr race= fail
Update fail wipes previous updates
Car classification FAIL
PD Chat Censor Fail List
Epic Slow Loading
24Hr Nurburgring fail!
GT5 A.I. Fail Videos
PD new seasonal event FAIL!!
Send fail = Trade limit for the day?
Air and epic fails!
Nurburgring and Drag Racing = Fail.
Dfgt vs real car pedals epic fail..
Epic fail
Remote race driver upload fail

...and that is just from the very first and partially second page of the "search". I went to see the real content of those threads, and guess what - results are unbelievable.

Here is the content of those threads listed above:

- Mercedes SLS does not backfire
- Some unexplainable issue guy have with Spoon CRV in Auto transmission
- 1.04 issue where guy had a problem with restoring update files
- Guy can't understand why "Tuner Cars" are not seen as "Road Cars" by game categorisation
- Issues with text-censorship and overall wording by profanity-filter
- Clogged HDD and non-cache-cleared game is slow, surprise
- Guy races with no HUD; pushes wrong button and exits endurance race and blames game
- Usual "AI is stupid because it makes mistakes" ranting
- Some typo-mistake in labelling the race in Seasonals
- guess what, game fails because it imposed limits for sending items
- Guy rants because some hosts of Open Lobbies are mislabelling races
- Guy realises that is not the same to drive real cars and video game
- Guys data on HDD gets wiped, blames GT5
- Logical problems with NAT3 or UPnP settings, blames GT5

Etc.

What is stopping people to call their threads with actual content of their question/observation/comment? Of course, some of the "epic fail" threads are talking about mistakes done by players (where "fail" describes his own fail) but majority of them just labels "something" as "fail" and leaves us to enter, see what the "fail" is all about and then realise it is either something subjective or totally irrelevant.

Hence my irritation with the "epic fail", nothing more.

 

[BWX]

^ ''Update fail wipes previous updates'' is a correct use of the word ''fail''.

I fail to see why you put that particular ''fail'' in your 'fail'' list.

 

[WakeStriker]

The price for the Gear pack is also messed up, though in the customer's favor.

(This is assuming it had a different price than the paint pack in the EU, since it did here in the US.)

 

[Morgoth_666]

Several of those "fail" titles appear to be perfectly descriptive to me, and if the actual content is different it's only because of a lousy title, not the word "fail." There are easily another hundred(it seems) thread titles in the top 3 or 4 pages of the GT5 and Q&A subforums that are completely nonsensical and give no indication whatsoever of the actual discussion which do not contain the words "epic" or "fail."

As someone said, it's just a current fad word, no different than "cool," "awesome," "radical," or "solid" or "the bees knees" for that matter. It's just something for people who really want to get offended by nothing to get themselves offended about.

Not that I don't agree that the words are pointless and unhelpful, but it's nothing to get upset about. And undescriptive thread titles(whatever the words used) are the real "fail" here.

Personally, I found the ridiculous and unacceptable mistake on the product packaging to be more interesting than the products themselves.


EDIT: I just noticed I wasted my 1,000th post on this. Apologies to you and to me.

 

[Griffith500]

Several of those "fail" titles appear to be perfectly descriptive to me, and if the actual content is different it's only because of a lousy title, not the word "fail." There are easily another hundred(it seems) thread titles in the top 3 or 4 pages of the GT5 and Q&A subforums that are completely nonsensical and give no indication whatsoever of the actual discussion which do not contain the words "epic" or "fail."

As someone said, it's just a current fad word, no different than "cool," "awesome," "radical," or "solid" or "the bees knees" for that matter. It's just something for people who really want to get offended by nothing to get themselves offended about.

Not that I don't agree that the words are pointless and unhelpful, but it's nothing to get upset about. And undescriptive thread titles(whatever the words used) are the real "fail" here.

Personally, I found the ridiculous and unacceptable mistake on the product packaging to be more interesting than the products themselves.


EDIT: I just noticed I wasted my 1,000th post on this. Apologies to you and to me.

That's actually exactly the point; the thread titles are vague, misleading or deliberately inciting some sort of emotional reaction, and the use of a fad word only adds to that. The word is irrelevant, it's the overall effect that's the problem; and that's what Amar just clarified.

 

[tribolik]

Nonetheless it is a big fail... I wouldnt call it epic though but certainly a big fail...

 

[Feralshooter]

I think it's great. I would buy the "gear pack" (that describes the race car pack as its contents) at its low price. Under Australian consumer law I would then be entitled to the car pack as described on the packaging, worth around 10 times the cost of the gear pack. Sweet