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[TheRealJayDee]

[Lotion Soronarr]

Goodbye BSN.

You were good once, but those times are gone.

Your hollow corpse still moves in a perverse mockery of life, but the light in the eyes is gone.

May someone grant you the Emperors Mercy and release you from your suffering.

[Cassandra Saturn]

Hello Conal Pierse. i hope this will address your views on the subject of Off-Topic and how Off-Topic forum truly means to the Community as whole.

Why Off-Topic means to us:
Off-Topic is home where all players and visiting members, new Bioware fans come together to discuss video games and discuss other topics. (they actually do discuss video games outside of said game forums)

it is also where the friendship, family are formed here. we laugh, cry, talk like a family here. they are part of our everyday life.

we talk very actively here in Off-Topic because it's most active forum out of all Bioware forums. you should know that from the numbers in Off-Topic and how it compares to every other gaming forums out here. here's fact you don't even know: Off-Topic Forum is most number One forum and an favorite in the world with over thousand users from all corners of world discussing here.

Why how Off-Topic does:
Off-Topic actually does help bring in over million users per year even those who Purchase Bioware products. and helps promote Bioware Products simply by discussing about them here in Off-Topic. it also does help grow the userbase for Bioware.

Closing the Off-Topic means:
closing it can actually kill off your userbase quickly over few days. you have over 600% of Userbase. since the closing, it has dropped down to 85% of userbase now. (i'd know from the number of users who left the forums for good over this)

it also can kill your chances to have Bioware product being played by players who never heard of Bioware or its games. even by former Bioware players. when you release a product, it will never get sold faster than any companies could without the userbase buying and supporting the said brand.

Why Off-Topic needs:
Off-Topic Forum actually needs active Volunteer Moderators who can close Threads and give warnings and speak with Official Moderators to discuss on a user's Violations and his/her behavior. it will help keep the forum completely fun and free of trolls for users. it will also improve the relations between the Bioware Developers and the Community. despite what you may think of Community being toxic in the Off-Topic, it is actually other way completely. only just in your game forums, not the Off-Topic.

The Conclusion:
in nutshell, Off-Topic is great place for users to discuss and have fun, making pranks on each other for laughs. even Bioware Developers and Official Moderators can join in on the fun here!

you should try it out, i know you're the Community Manager. but you also should know the perks of being Community Manager.

1. you actually get to boss Developers around for fun and laughs
2. ask the Community what they want to see the changes made to the Forums.
3. you actually can make poll votes on what features should be added first.
4. ask the developers if they could spare something like a teaser for the community.

many more as well.

My Experiences:
i was the Community Manager for five years on a game fan forums.
even active as a Poster for ten years to present day.
i spent seven years on old Batman fan forum that doesn't exist anymore as Moderator.
three years as Chat Moderator for a game forum.

believe me, Off-Topic is fun place to go to and have good time here.

[Voxr]

Conal probably doesn't even play AoE2.

[Degenerate Rakia Time]

Conal probably doesn't even play AoE2.

He wants you to get of his lawn too

[Fidite Nemini]

 

Which is admittedly a lot less than some of OT's best threads(Skyrim, RWBY, Our Faces, Music, etc etc).

 

Not mentioning the Anime&Manga Discussion thread despite it being the #1 largest thread by far. Shame on you LP!

[LPPrince]

Not mentioning the Anime&Manga Discussion thread despite it being the #1 largest thread by far. Shame on you LP!

 

etc etc

[Fidite Nemini]

etc etc

 

Should've been the first on your list, we worked hard!

[Zeroth Angel]

Fidite is correct.

 

All those blood and tears should mean something!

[N7M]

[LPPrince]

Should've been the first on your list, we worked hard!

 

Fidite is correct.

 

All those blood and tears should mean something!

 

 

True. But given the RWBY thread was originally created as a response to people going "keep this outta the anime thread!" I must have some deep-seated pain I didn't know about that continues to affect my actions in small ways. 

[bEVEsthda]

Hope junkies.

 

Have some grey.

 

[Little Princess Peach]

Come on you have to admit that all the "I'm leaving" threads may have played a part in the place getting locked down.

I thought those had stopped I saw a ton in the old fourm but I never saw anything here

[Little Princess Peach]

*still waiting for BioWare response*

you wont get one they do not care if a bunch of you are angry or not about this they are doing there jobs and thats it

 

Bioware if you really want to make your fans angry kill off all the Li's in game via dlc

[SlottsMachine]

I thought those had stopped I saw a ton in the old fourm but I never saw anything here

 

Nah. We had a run of them in the last month or so. You'd have to figure that BioWare had been planning to shut down Off-Topic for a while now, so I don't think it was much of a factor. 

[Barbarossa2010]

Bethesda Softworks has a very active Off Topic section on their forums. Hmmm. Must still be important to them. How interesting. Lot's of discussion about the things folks used to like to talk about in the Off-Topic forums that once existed here. Lots of talk about games that aren't actually developed by Bethesda, like The Witcher 3, Dark Souls, and many more. Plenty of open discussion about Introducing Yourself, Posting your Desktop, iPhone vs Android, My Little Pony, Mad Max, and Sci-Fi, just to name a very few.
 
Maybe, the folks that used to like to hang out here (like I did) might find a more welcoming community over there. Just saying. In fact, the funny thing is, they actually seem to like their community, understanding intuitively the anonymous environment of internet feedback and discussion, with an even better understanding that no matter the unbridled passions of anonymity, the best ideas always percolate to the top. Not much whimpering about "toxicity," and they seem to be adequately moderated.
 
Hope to see some of you over there. But, of course, to each their own. Just thought I shared an alter-perspective with my final post here. The best way to fight a change you dislike from a given entity, once they've shown themselves rigid and unmovable, is to find an acceptable alternative. If that alternative happens to be embracing the services of a competitor of said entity...well, that's sort of the point, and nothing but a notch in the win column.

http://forums.bethso...ity-discussion/
 
Best regards to all.
 
 
Oh, and to stay close to some of the friends that some of you might have made here, make sure to stop by Vroom Social Network and register, many of us are up and still chatting there.

http://vroomvroom.freeforums.net/

 

Take care.

[Commander Rpg]

and they seem to be adequately moderated.

This alone makes 95% of the difference. The best moderation I've seen here is locking - with at least days and days of delay - threads that were blatantly used to mindlessly spam. That's the best. The worst consist in things like letting individuals (TROLLS) like Carcassandra Chatter to continue his quest, and especially allocating warning points to people that didn't deserve those. To be more specific the only warning point I have right now was given to me for saying the equivalent of "jews are men, they have rights and cannot be harmed" in a neo-Nazi forum.

[Liamv2]

Still nothing huh? I know i'm supposed to be polite but this is seriously pathetic. The only word we've had from bioware is by someone who wasn't even involved in this mess.

[Zeroth Angel]

Not like there's anything to gain since chances that they'll bring off topic back are very low.

[LightningPoodle]

People are still hoping for Off-Topic to come back, huh?

[Commander Rpg]

People are still hoping for Off-Topic to come back, huh?

I don't, you can't reason with multimillionaire corporations. Usually. Except when miracles happen.

[LPPrince]

People are still hoping for Off-Topic to come back, huh?

 

Some of us, yes.

[Dio Demon]

I've given up. It's obvious that BioWare thinks goodwill is like Santa or the Easter bunny and that it's total and complete utter bullshit. I know I sound like I'm having  raging fit. I'm not I just lost all patience and I feel like the deserve my two cents at the very least.

 

 

Now watch as I get a warning point for swearing.

 

 

Also FYI fix your goddamn ****** piece of **** filters before giving out warning points. I heard that might help

 

 

Edit: Well... ironic... the intended swearing was filtered but the real swearing was not.

[SwobyJ]

I don't believe Bioware does actual community management anymore.

 

And I can be very kind to them. But I still think this.

 

Its all about dem clicks now.

[Liamv2]

Not like there's anything to gain since chances that they'll bring off topic back are very low.

 

True.