Welp, this is weird and I totally never saw it coming. I recommend everyone to head to Reddit. The ME community there is probably the biggest after BSN. It's pretty cool there, and similar in many ways (Both in good and bad ways) to BSN. They are usually among the first to post new leaks, information and theories.
Only downside to Reddit - no Twitter thread.
The way Reddit works also makes it essentially impossible to have the same kinds of discussions that you can on a message board like this.
The way Reddit works also makes it essentially impossible to have the same kinds of discussions that you can on a message board like this.
What do you mean?
This thread was the only place I could get info.
Thanks to all contributors for making my morning coffee, lunch and evening tea an enjoyable experience.
Keelah Se'lai.
One more *ryncol* post, for the road? I'll really miss that. 
'member this gif? I totally got a warning point for it and it was removed... 
So I'm posting it again! heh.
+10 Renegade
What do you mean?
How would you for example go about successfully recreating massive threads like the Twitter threads or the character threads or some long thread debating lore if you were to do it on Reddit? Threads that could go on for months, years even? The very way it's laid out and the upvote/downvote system is counterproductive to fostering the types of discussions you can have on a more traditional style of message board. Reddit works better for shorter discussions and things like "OP posts link -> everybody posts their own reaction/response to OP and then move on" while a board like this allows for more ongoing, evolving discussion as the threads progress, not to mention how neatly organized everything is.
If the DA/ME Reddit pages end up being the new main gathering places, maybe missing out on 50 page threads discussing the ins and outs of Quarian buttholes isn't that great of a loss, but there's a ton of other things that simply won't be the same and probably wouldn't work at all on Reddit.
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One more *ryncol* post, for the road? I'll really miss that.
'member this gif? I totally got a warning point for it and it was removed...
+10 Renegade
One more *ryncol* post, for the road? I'll really miss that.
'member this gif? I totally got a warning point for it and it was removed...
+10 Renegade
Hell yeah! What they can do? ban you?...lol 
*Pours you a martini glass with a resigned face and downs a Ryncol*
You should probably say something for after I'm gone.
*Cocks shotgun and charges off into a Thresher Maw nest*
Other than "please don't race to your death!!"?
*clears throat*
Zip wasn't just a krogan. He was, is, the Krogan.
He turned drinking Ryncol into an art and was never shy about his many lovers, most of which were asari. The ones without eyebrows.
He knew what it was to be true Krogan.
Most of all, he will be missed...
argh... I'm not good at this stuff... 
Hell yeah! What they can do? ban you?...lol
haha, well, it was technically a "spam" post because no words... 
Other than "please don't race to your death!!"?
*clears throat*
Zip wasn't just a krogan. He was, is, the Krogan.
He turned drinking Ryncol into an art and was never shy about his many lovers, most of which were asari. The ones without eyebrows.
He knew what it was to be true Krogan.
Most of all, he will be missed...
argh... I'm not good at this stuff...
What do you mean?
Well, there's a few things - no long, enduring threads that aren't stickied, no image embeds, a general focus on short-form posts - but the most significant is probably downvotes. Why engage with someone when you can just click a little arrow next to their post?
Reddit stymies discussion by design, since controversial points of view - for a given subreddit - are pretty much guaranteed to be downvoted into oblivion rather than discussed and considered. If your opinion doesn't line-up with the majority, well, there's no point even trying to express it on most subreddits--even if you go to great pains to sound reasonable and open-to-discussion, people'll still just click, click, click away on that downvote arrow.
It's not something that happens to me often, but that doesn't make it any less crippling for discussion; I just deliberately avoid saying anything that's gonna get obliterated by downvotes. It's probably the biggest reason why I don't engage with Reddit nearly as much as I do other discussion forums. And that's speaking as someone who, generally speaking, tries to stick to the non-controversial discussions - cabin decor, for example - anyway! Well, unless something really annoys me.
Don't go dying yet. The forums my be ending but there is still one game coming 
MESSAGE POPULAIRE !
Hey gang...
Just wanted to quickly pop my head in here, completely flaunt the forum rules, and say thank you for all your PMs, support and ideas for keeping this great community alive. 
Unfortunately, this all dropped in my lap the first day of my vacation, so it's going to be 3 - 4 days before I can really get my head around this. I've spent a couple of hours just trying to catch up. I (to the surprise of no one...) have a lot of feelings on this and will definitely chime in the main thread when I get back home.
Hey gang...
Just wanted to quickly pop my head in here, completely flaunt the forum rules, and say thank you for all your PMs, support and ideas for keeping this great community alive.
Unfortunately, this all dropped in my lap the first day of my vacation, so it's going to be 3 - 4 days before I can really get my head around this. I've spent a couple of hours just trying to catch up. I (to the surprise of no one...) have a lot of feelings on this and will definitely chime in the main thread when I get back home.
Hey gang...
Just wanted to quickly pop my head in here, completely flaunt the forum rules, and say thank you for all your PMs, support and ideas for keeping this great community alive.
Unfortunately, this all dropped in my lap the first day of my vacation, so it's going to be 3 - 4 days before I can really get my head around this. I've spent a couple of hours just trying to catch up. I (to the surprise of no one...) have a lot of feelings on this and will definitely chime in the main thread when I get back home.
Hey gang...
Just wanted to quickly pop my head in here, completely flaunt the forum rules, and say thank you for all your PMs, support and ideas for keeping this great community alive.
Unfortunately, this all dropped in my lap the first day of my vacation, so it's going to be 3 - 4 days before I can really get my head around this. I've spent a couple of hours just trying to catch up. I (to the surprise of no one...) have a lot of feelings on this and will definitely chime in the main thread when I get back home.
Enjoy your vacation. Don't think about it, relax, take time off, you've more than earned it!
I agree with ZipZap. If you an EP wanna formulate something to move forward/onward, we'll follow. I'll help out anyway I can, help bring in masses, etc.
i may not have been as active this couple of weeks but i'll miss checking on this thread and all the familiar faces here! i loved talking and dicussing mass effect with you guys and hopefully we'll do in other platforms 
i respect bioware's choice even if i did not like it... oh well..
Reddit is not a replacement for the BSN. It is not a sufficient place to take up the mantle either.
No need to be snarky. Of course I can monitor every BW dev on Twitter but this thread was good because it was the best way to see newsworthy tweets in a curated fashion.
Nope, apparently, having all the information scouted by fans and brought into one central location is not considered a good thing. Instead, they'd rather we monitor six+ different social media sites to learn any new info. Or consult the eye-bleed, holy crap is it 1998 again, screw chronological order and logical long-post discussions and let's have one-liners and upvote/downvote stuff in a confusing manner Reddit.
Which I did sign up for and tried to use tonight. It is awful. I actually got a headache from the formatting after five minutes of use and I will never darken its doors again. THAT is the alternative we are given for forum discussion? No. Just no. I will excommunicate myself from the community entirely before trying to make sense of that site again.
For those who can use it and/or like it, you are saints and 1,000 times superior to me in every conceivable way. I wish you love and good fortune.
Hey gang...
Just wanted to quickly pop my head in here, completely flaunt the forum rules, and say thank you for all your PMs, support and ideas for keeping this great community alive.
Unfortunately, this all dropped in my lap the first day of my vacation, so it's going to be 3 - 4 days before I can really get my head around this. I've spent a couple of hours just trying to catch up. I (to the surprise of no one...) have a lot of feelings on this and will definitely chime in the main thread when I get back home.
Bless your heart. The forums moved over to this site on a day I woke up deathly sick from the flu, and I spent my sick day off work frantically trying to fix the Resource Library because the forum format change had broken all the links. So, I fully feel you on having terrible BioWare forum news pound you at the worst time possible.
Thank you for everything you've done. If you and EP figure something out before the big close, do let me know if I can be of any assistance.
And trust me, I'm not on vacation and it's STILL gonna take me 3-4 days before I can really wrap my head around this either. For the moment, I'm drowning my sorrows in a flow of Southern Comfort. It's only helping minimally.
All the people like yourself Hrungr, biofan, dragon racer and many others that went well out of their way to inform and keep info flowing in the LONG wait between games just got the middle finger. I'd be surprised if any of the key people on these sites ever got nod from bioEAare at all.
If I were you I'd just kick back, relax and enjoy the thanks of the people on this forum, f u c kay any more twitter updates,
For the first time, I do feel like I've got a knife wedged between my shoulder blades. It's not a fun feeling.
Got a reddit account....Damn the way their forums works is really bad. No way we can have a discussion thread(like this one) there... 
I'm just gonna drop this in here from Autumn Witch's 'I need ME Fans!' thread:
AutumnWitch, on 29 Jul 2016 - 8:03 PM, said:
Hi!I am posting this due to Bioware closing this site.
I own and operate a Dragon Age and Social fansite for over two years now. (At my own cost, that is how much I love DA)
Anyway, I have a ME section and I have not played the games too much myself but I know they are hugely meaningful to so many of you. I am inviting you to please visit my site and join.
I really would love to find some real fans of ME who can sort of manage and lead that section of the site and give it more presence.
I am also so heart broken that BW is kicking all if you wonder fans to the curb and want to offer you a place to go.
So please come by and take a look. We are safe, fun with no advertising and no limit on likes!
https://realdragonagefans.forums.net/
I've made an account, and I've already seen some of the regulars from around here on there doing the same. It seems like a super welcoming site, and certainly much closer to the existing BSN than, say, Reddit could possibly be.
Reddit is not a replacement for the BSN. It is not a sufficient place to take up the mantle either.
It is, and then again it isn't. It all depends on who's modding the subreddit, and how much of a jerk they wanna be. Again, I have a reddit account, I just don't hit that site very often, because of the thousands upon thousands of subreddits.
*shrug* I'd rather hit 4chan than that site.
It is, and then again it isn't. It all depends on who's modding the subreddit, and how much of a jerk they wanna be. Again, I have a reddit account, I just don't hit that site very often, because of the thousands upon thousands of subreddits.
*shrug* I'd rather hit 4chan than that site.
I don't think it can be. It can't be. Literally. Not with the way its built and how its run.
Nope, apparently, having all the information scouted by fans and brought into one central location is not considered a good thing. Instead, they'd rather we monitor six+ different social media sites to learn any new info. Or consult the eye-bleed, holy crap is it 1998 again, screw chronological order and logical long-post discussions and let's have one-liners and upvote/downvote stuff in a confusing manner Reddit.
Which I did sign up for and tried to use tonight. It is awful. I actually got a headache from the formatting after five minutes of use and I will never darken its doors again. THAT is the alternative we are given for forum discussion? No. Just no. I will excommunicate myself from the community entirely before trying to make sense of that site again.
Love your description of Reddit, I felt the exact same way when I attempted to view a handful of discussions a couple years ago, trying to check-out 'that Reddit thing' the kids are always talking about. And you summed up my reaction beautifully... it's like an alt-reality 1997 with even WORSE formatting. I don't get the love for it.
Also... left that image/quote in because I've felt BW has been pushing us away ever since the ME3 ending reaction... they've behaved like petulant children ever since they turned away those charity cupcakes that forum members sent them. I wasn't involved in any way with that little mission, but I watched, interested in BW's reaction... and what a pathetic reaction it was. More petty behavior followed, but I've already lost interest while typing. Sad state of affairs for BW.
Love your description of Reddit, I felt the exact same way when I attempted to view a handful of discussions a couple years ago, trying to check-out 'that Reddit thing' the kids are always talking about. And you summed up my reaction beautifully... it's like an alt-reality 1997 with even WORSE formatting. I don't get the love for it.
Also... left that image/quote in because I've felt BW has been pushing us away ever since the ME3 ending reaction... they've behaved like petulant children ever since they turned away those charity cupcakes forum members sent them.
And maybe you should realize that stupid comments like "they've behaved like petulant children" and the assorted accusations, name-calling, vitriol, etc. from the less well-behaved forum users are exactly the kinds of things that contributed to these forums being shut down.
Since the forums are shutting down, I feel like I can be perfectly honest about what I think of this whole mess. I pretty firmly believe that it's thanks to people like you who think that accusing the devs of behaving like petulant children after they've had to deal with years of outright abuse after the ME3 endings that these forums are being shut down. You and anyone else who ever wrote something similar and/or those who have written much, much nastier things (I have seen extremely vicious and crazy posts in here, including death threats/threats of violence, etc.) are the ones to thank for all of this.
Per what I said in the official thread about the forums being shut down, BW could have (and should have) taken control of the situation after things got worse in the forums, with better moderating and a zero-tolerance policy on toxic behavior. If they'd taken a much firmer stance early on, then maybe things wouldn't have ended up like this. I remember a time when people could at least manage to be mostly civil and when there were productive threads with good critiques, etc., but that mostly died out a while back.
I'll tell you one thing: I'm glad that I will no longer be subjected to a post like yours ever again after these forums are finally closed. I guess there's always a silver lining, even in situations like this one!
Oh, and a special note to all the people who couldn't write a single mature post if their lives depended on it: You can all give yourselves a giant pat on your backs for dragging those of us who could (and mostly did) act like adults into this situation - congratulations! I hope it was really worth it to all of you to be able to insult the devs practically nonstop, etc.! Look where that got all of us.
*sarcasm to the infinite power + massive eyerolling*
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