Here\'s one theory...
People download Planeshift thinking they\'re getting a game. Too lazy to read anything about it, instead just looking at the pretty screenshots, they download it and expect it to be self explainatory.
Those not dumb enough to get stumped by the .part files compiling system actually manage to install the game. Some even get past character creation. But then they realise it doesn\'t work. \"linkdead\"? \"database error\"? Why doesn\'t the game fix it itself? Wtf??//1
By dev-shortsightedness, the error briefly tells these people to seek the forums for help. Thus they arrive in their thousands, leaving threads everywhere, and leave before their eyes even adjust to the colours of the forum.
Sticky threads? Archives? What they? Me go eat stuff and wait for babysitters to answer problem.
(Sorry, I\'m not having a go at you personally, squirrel, just everyone who wastes our time

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