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[JamesX]

Because Bioware want to focus all the discussion of the game on this site.

[Darpaek]

Ugh! This sucks. I don't know about the rest of you, but I despise the average user of this Social site. It's totally the violence trailer crowd. That, and, you make a new thread and it usually disappears off the front page within a minute. Contrast that to the old daforums, I could post a question/comment and have a useful response within minutes - sometimes even from a dev!



daforums was nice for a couple weeks. Hopefully IGN or someone starts up a new forum for DA.

[Tristera]

Darpaek wrote...

 ...you make a new thread and it usually disappears off the front page within a minute. Contrast that to the old daforums, I could post a question/comment and have a useful response within minutes - sometimes even from a dev!

daforums was nice for a couple weeks. Hopefully IGN or someone starts up a new forum for DA.

I agree.

[Tristera]

Darpaek wrote...

...you make a new thread and it usually disappears off the front page within a minute. Contrast that to the old daforums, I could post a question/comment and have a useful response within minutes - sometimes even from a dev!

daforums was nice for a couple weeks. Hopefully IGN or someone starts up a new forum for DA.

I agree.

[VanDraegon]

I am sure they plan on optimizing these forums fairly soon. They sure need it anyways. I imagine they were a bit overwhelmed at launch. Give it some time, the site will speed up, search will work and they will get some more mods for the forums.

[aries1001]

I liked the old forums, too. I'm beginning to like these new forums as well. I'm a bit annoyed, though, by the (small) size of the font used, but I can find a way around that.



As for responses from a Bioware dev. -if you check the spoiler forums, they're plenty of help provided by the Bioware devs. - even on this site.



I think it would be beneficial if and when we could get the chance to ask for how many responses we'd like to see, like 10 or 20. Or how many threads we'd like to see...



A bioware tech dev. said something about that the other forums were going on 5 year old code? And that is was necessary to do this update for the forums...



Another resason could be that Bioware wants to reach out to a different audience than its trusty PC fans; they need to make sure that the have fans in the future...

[Tristera]

aries1001 wrote...

I liked the old forums, too. I'm beginning to like these new forums as well. I'm a bit annoyed, though, by the (small) size of the font used, but I can find a way around that.

Yes, I also think the font here is tiiiiny without any modification. I'll probably end up enlarging it too.
(that's what she said)

[Tristera]

Is anyone else unable to post replies in the Spoilers forum?

Edit: A-ha! I have to register my copy of the game! Excellent obvious detection there, self.

Modifié par Tristera, 18 novembre 2009 - 02:35 .

[Mt.Seleya]

So, did anyone find the promised archives by now?

Or someone you can pester with it?



I am driving myself mad because I need some info BADLY and can't find it *rips out hair* and I'd much rather play the game. Before I am so mad, I throw it ou the window.

[Tristera]

No one's found anything yet, sorry. But perhaps one of us here can try to help?

[Mt.Seleya]

Thanks for the offer, but it's a bit tricky: in one of the topics on the old forum there was a link to another forum with a detailed descrition on how to edit your character with the toolset and morphing without messing the pc up.
I just remember that the site it was on had light background, not dark. And I accidentally closed the tab before I bookmarked the site.

Modifié par Mt.Seleya, 18 novembre 2009 - 03:48 .

[Imryll]

aries1001 wrote...
Another resason could be that Bioware wants to reach out to a different audience than its trusty PC fans; they need to make sure that the have fans in the future...

Fans who don't mind wrestling with broken functionality?  What demographic would that be?

It's not that I'm opposed to change, but between the fragmentation of the community into interest groups, and things just not reliably working, it's a lot harder to find information than it was on the old forums. I much preferred more centralized discussion of things like class mechanics.

[Foxhound_71]

I have to agree that these forums are pretty bad compared to the old ones. Actually, this whole site seems like a mess to me. It's not user friendly at all and many features aren't working properly.

And what is up with all these useless facebook-like features such as recent activity? I mean why oh why would I care if a certain user, that I'm not even tracking or anything like that, joined the 'Bearded Men' group?? That's just bad design IMO.
At least give me a choice to hide that kind of stuff. I just want a simple and clean home page without all that useless clutter.

EDIT: I just found out that I can disable the recent activity feed (should have been able to completely remove it from the home page however). The filters link sure is easy to miss. I still think the site is badly designed though.

Modifié par Foxhound_71, 18 novembre 2009 - 07:00 .

[Gorath Alpha]

Riddley313 wrote...

Er, sorry if that has been mentioned,
but why exactly were the original forums shut down for this game and
the other ones for different bioware games remain?

AFAIK, Bioware always closes its old forums when the release dates arrive, and starts new forums at the same time.  This social thing had a three week lead on the release date.  But all forums eventually will move, just that choosing DA:O instead of something less popular seems illogical somehow, to me!

Mt.Seleya wrote...

So, did anyone find the promised archives by now?

The first of the four is back, but in a garish neon blue at this URL:  forums.bioware.com/viewforum.html

Happy?

It did trick me into a silly mistake, though.  Six hours AFTER the forums there had been moved away out of access reach by ordinary members, a moderator had added a reply to an idiot messager about really overstepping the user agreement here.   The current layout still includes both a "Post Reply" and a "New Topic" at the bottom. 

I forgot it was an archive, seeing that, and tried to add a comment.  I got a very generic error message about what I can do or cannot do, not a reminder that I was in the Archives. 

Gorath

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Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 18 novembre 2009 - 07:18 .

[Tristera]

Oh god my eyes. Thanks for updating us, anyway.

[Mt.Seleya]

Gorath Alpha wrote...
The first of the four is back, but in a garish neon blue at this URL:  forums.bioware.com/viewforum.html

Happy?

Thanks for the link.
But I am too blinded for now to find a button where to change the theme... *squint* did they put it in the same stupid forum as this? Well, better than nothing, I guess *sigh*. But how can one find an old posting, if one can't use the search??

But what did you mean by "first of four"?


Dammit, I'm still searching for the preview button - I can't work like that!



Edit: Nevermind, I got the meaning of FOUR. ;-)

Modifié par Mt.Seleya, 18 novembre 2009 - 08:59 .

[Gorath Alpha]

Way back when NWN2 was "upgraded" from pre-release, to post-release, that one became practically unusable for me due to the terrible color choices.  NWN-1 had become bad enough already in its color scheme, which is what I think that the NWN2 pre-release forums used. 

If you want to see something ridiculous, visit NWN2's forums. 

Be that as it may, there is no option anywhere to select a larger font, outside of your own browser (the Opera default is better than the FireFox or Sea Monkey defaults), or over-ride the color scheme, and you can choose your own colors, but they will be applied browser-wide, to everything. 

Gorath
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[Adthesus]

Search function is working for me now. Dont use the one at the top right. Go to forums then use that one. It does give results now.

Modifié par Adthesus, 18 novembre 2009 - 10:09 .

[Jesse van Herk]

These forums are indeed a work-in-progress, and BioWare is actively working on improving them.



By shutting down the old DA forums, our moderators now have half as many sites to worry about, and therefore have twice as much time to make *these* forums better.