Concerning Our Forums (BioWare)

Off-topic
#1

After great consideration, we are closing down the BioWare forums, effective August 26, 2016. The Star Wars: The Old Republic forums will continue to operate; however, our public boards for Dragon Age, Mass Effect, and legacy BioWare titles will no longer be available.
This wasn’t an easy decision. Our players are important to us. Your feedback, stories, and love for our games drive and inspire us. In the past, our forums were the only way we could speak to you directly. They allowed our developers to talk with fans, and gave our players the opportunity to talk with each other about our games. But with the rise of social media and geek culture, there have never been more ways for us to connect.
Now we can travel around the world, meeting with you face-to-face at events like PAX, SDCC, and even shows in our own backyard. We can share stories with you on the go, giving you a look behind the scenes on sites
like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram.
In turn, you’ve built your own fantastic communities in places like Tumblr and Reddit. You’ve created comprehensive Wikis and countless pieces of fantastic art, fiction, and cosplay. With so many great things so widely available, our developers today find themselves spending more time on other sites, and less time in our own forums. And to our fans and players who came to those boards looking to talk to us, it was a great disservice.
So it is with a heavy heart that we will close our public forums on
August 26, 2016. We will maintain some private boards, and may use these in future for beta feedback or other special projects. Because we know there is a lot of information on there you may want to keep, the public boards will remain in a read-only state until October 25, 2016. After that date, they will be taken down.
While we are saying goodbye to this venue, we remain committed to our community and will always be here to listen, share, and support you. Online and in person, we will continue to seek out opportunities to
interact and share in our combined love of games.

What the hell is this?
Is this the future? Without forums?
I hope not!

#2

Hi, I was scared too but I guess yes; this is the future for AAA Developer & Publisher. Since most of them are waisting resources on widespread networks because they are able to access much more people. Watch Ubisoft and his attempts to create interactive and good sites with content. Most of them like the “Accouncil” are deadborn, other were shot down like “acinitiates”. Most of the big houses spend most of their resources (menpower & money) in social media platforms. From one site it makes sense but on the other hand you wont be able to maintain a hardcore fanbase (classic speaking) through a website. The hardcore fanbase are nowadays the cosplayer, the Youtuber and the social media stars that work as Opinion leader. The work of the comdev has changed also. So once again, yes welcome to the future. :scream:

#3

Great. Silence all who are not willing to use this commercial networks like facebook.

#4

Not especially sad about the Bioware forums, as their last game I bought was DA:O, but the trend is quite worrying. A forum simply allows a completely different form of communication, both between developer and players, but also amongst players. There is simply no way to have a meaningful conversation on websites like Facebook or Twitter. Those are one-way communication channels that are good for marketing only, but hardly able to foster a healthy community around a game.

I’m always perplexed if game devs do not offer forums in the first place or neglect them in favour of “social media”. I guess I’m growing old …

#5

On the other hand when I was actively using Riots boards (for League of Legends) I still missed a lot of announcements and infos from devs because they were mostly using Reddit.

So I am not really that surprised that they decided to close the forum, because only small group of core fans stays there. And the rest is on riddeit and other global soc. media

But ye, for those people from the forum community it must really suck.

#6

Once I had a facebook account and only because a friend suggested to do so. Didn’t used it much and as I got aware what they possible do with the data, I deleted it after a little research how to delete a facebook account in the proper way.
I don’t like how it will change the world. Where people will think your person is suspicious, because you don’t use a social network. When they expect you to be always online and be as transparent as glas.
Where only like buttons could be used and than only those clicks were counted and used as a base for a decision.
I once readed in a magazine where a journalist had written that something must be great, because it got over 100.000 like clicks. And I asked myself compared to how many visitors of this webside?

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