"Official" threads

[Killerkebab]

It seems to be a tradition that whenever anything big/interesting is coming up someone will create an 'official' thread, put some stars on it and a bit of info. As of that point, anyone talking about the subject matter in a different thread or asking any questions will be immediately shot down/ignored unless they go to a 2k post thread and find out there.

Now I understand some people don't want page 1 of the forum view to be 13 different BF3 threads or 11 different threads asking which augs to buy in DX3 but is it too much to ask that whoever creates the 'official' thread at least takes the time to update it with information?

Take the BF3 thread, for instance. It was created almost two years ago and still has OcUK preorder information (with a price you can no longer order the game for), has no beta information, etc. It was updated at some point in the past month at least so I guess this is better than nothing.

My point basically is: if we're going to go for this 'one thread' route then can we please make sure the OP in the thread is up to date? Is there a way to make wiki-style pages on these forums where we could all update the OP with relevant information?

 

[Killerkebab]

To be honest having a maintained "Official" thread with most game talk kept in there is fine, with all the important relevant information kept up to date in the first post, it's the ones that are then abandoned that I don't like very much.

I honestly can't say this thread is very original, haven't we had a thread like this rather recently, yet again having a moan about something which frankly shouldn't really be brought up? Three cheers for the internet I suppose...

It's not the presence of official threads which bothers me, it's the "go away and search in the huge thread" stock response you get because to find out why you can't bind new keys in the BF3 beta I have to scroll to post #728 and I need to go to post #1829 to get a password to a server and so on.

Wheras if there was a possibility for a wiki system then anyone could update the OP with all sorts of relevant information then not only would you not get annoyed at the presence of millions of threads for one game, but then guys like me won't be annoyed at having to trawl through 2000 posts just to find some useful information