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[crazyrabbits]

Yah, that's true, too.  They could be shutting down the forums because they've had so many leaks in the past.  As soon as it enters "beta" phase (which none of us ever see), someone invariably posts links to the script.  Then they have to go in and rewrite, tweak it, and just overall do all of the facial animations over again.

The ME3 story leak came from a beta of the demo that was leaked on XBox Live. Enterprising dataminers got in and found everything. It circulated through tons of sites - NeoGAF was probably the biggest offender until EA stepped in and levied a C&D order at them.

[Wolven_Soul]

No! Not my precious 24.5K posts and all my likes! DON'T TAKE AWAY MY LIKES!

 

Is it silly that the likes going away is one of the things that bugs me the most about this?  Lol, I was happy that I had a little more than at least 1 like for every two posts I made.  *sighs*  I need to get out more.......I'm not gonna though. 

[goishen]

The ME3 story leak came from a beta of the demo that was leaked on XBox Live. Enterprising dataminers got in and found everything. It circulated through tons of sites - NeoGAF was probably the biggest offender until EA stepped in and levied a C&D order at them.

 

Huh. 

 

Didn't know that, as I didn't really "read" these forums until well after ME3 released.  But good to know.

[lynroy]

Is it silly that the likes going away is one of the things that bugs me the most about this?  Lol, I was happy that I had a little more than at least 1 like for every two posts I made.  *sighs*  I need to get out more.......I'm not gonna though. 

Eh, getting out is overrated. 

[Wolven_Soul]

Reddit is the internet equivalent to Walter White.

 

Just as bad as 4chan at times (if not worse), but people don't notice because it lives in a fancy house in the suburbs.

 

Yeah but....I liked Walter White.....

[QueenPurpleScrap]

They probably blocked you.

*snip*

The're probably not used to getting so many tweets from one user at a time so it'll probably take some time for them to answer.....and then they probaby block you for spamming (because 18 tweets).

 

I'm sure you're both right, but it really doesn't matter if they block me now. How will I know if they blocked me? If I try to tweet them again (unlikely) do I get a message or does my tweet go into that great cyberspace void?

 

I'm not a twitterer? or is it tweeter? Whatever. Like I said, this brought my total up to a whopping 24 tweets. I am so untwitterfied. I think I'll keep it that way.

[Novos]

What we are witnessing is probably the final stages of Bioware's long term business strategy under EA which is shifting the focus completely on mainstream audience.

 

The community represented on this forum is irrelevant. You might even call it a liability. Because, as long term fans of various franchises we would probably not  going to be happy of what is about to come and would want to raise our concerns like we have done before. The depth, the maturity and the constructivity of those possible concerns are also irrelevant because we are not the target audience. Therefore, why would you want to run and maintain a community which would only be a center of resistance and a source of negativity on your desired path ? In fact, you won't even be targeting them in the first place.

 

The target audience they are shifting is different. They follow the next big thing, they follow the trend. They are not after substance. They are not looking for in-depth analysis, lore discussion, strategy, theorycrafting or even giving feedback and such. They probably will move to the next big thing before even consuming the current one. All the things this community offers are not needed by them. Strangely; as the products from now on will probably cater much more to this audience, we will also not be needing any of it because there won' t be much material for us to discuss anyways. See ? Nothing to be upset about  Any platform able to adress a couple of technical issues and deal with an odd non sensical question, suggestion or a joke  from time to time is enough.

 

On my part; it was and it still is sad to see a genre defining studio transforming into its current state. But what can we do about it ? It is their call after all. Wish them the best of luck on their new path...

[Han Shot First]

I'm sure you're both right, but it really doesn't matter if they block me now. How will I know if they blocked me? If I try to tweet them again (unlikely) do I get a message or does my tweet go into that great cyberspace void?

I'm not a twitterer? or is it tweeter? Whatever. Like I said, this brought my total up to a whopping 24 tweets. I am so untwitterfied. I think I'll keep it that way.

If I'm not mistaken, the correct term for a Twitter user is tw@t.

[Subarashi81]

So the EA corporate overlords are striking again, by killing another company, because shutting down the forums is the 1st step in shutting Bioware down.  Sooo...DA4....still happening?  All original creators of the franchise have already left Bioware...

 

[Han Shot First]

This thread's soundtrack...

[JobacNoor]

Reddit is the internet equivalent to Walter White.

 

Just as bad as 4chan at times (if not worse), but people don't notice because it lives in a fancy house in the suburbs.

 

Reddit likes chemicals so much that it's basically Walter White!

 

[Wolven_Soul]

Eh, getting out is overrated. 

 

Especially when you live in a town like mine....

[CHRrOME]

The strangest complaint is from someone who has an issue with them speaking a combo of English and Polish so they feel left out. And I have to wonder, why move to Poland to work without learning how to speak the language? This person been there for three years. Plenty of time to learn unless Polish is massively difficult to learn.

 

Well, english is considered in many cases the "universal language" (and that's coming from someone whose english is not his 1st language). So probably many people think if they speak english, they don't really need to learn any other language (which is selfish, I agree).

On the matter of how difficult is polish to learn as a language, I remember reading somewhere that is one of the most difficult languages to learn actually.

[Han Shot First]

So the EA corporate overlords are striking again, by killing another company, because shutting down the forums is the 1st step in shutting Bioware down.  Sooo...DA4....still happening?  All original creators of the franchise have already left Bioware...
 
https://www.youtube....h?v=Z2pGngvL6Ro

This one is entirely on Bioware.

No other EA game is losing its official forums. In fact Bioware Austin is keeping SWTOR's forums on line, so the decision to nuke the BSN seems to have come from the studio (Edmonton?) responsible for running it.

[Cassandra Saturn]

my first promotional video for uBSN

[AlanC9]

I'm sure there are people around from the old Baldur's Gate and NWN days too.

*raises hand*

Yeah, there are a few of us left. FWIW, the Bio boards were always pretty toxic. When I joined up, NWN was getting an awful reception, between people who hated it because it wasn't BG3, people who hated it because it was a terrible interpretation of D&D 3rd ed., people who thought it was an appeal to casual gamers with the respawning and so forth, and people who believed all three.

[mousestalker1]

*raises hand*

Yeah, there are a few of us left. FWIW, the Bio boards were always pretty toxic. When I joined up, NWN was getting an awful reception, between people who hated it because it wasn't BG3, people who hated it because it was a terrible interpretation of D&D 3rd ed., people who thought it was an appeal to casual gamers with the respawning and so forth, and people who believed all three.

This.

 

In any open forum there is always a group of people who want to pee in the pool. A certain percentage of people with poor bladder control is the price of having things open to the public. If you need further proof, look at the comments section of any popular YouTube video.

[AlanC9]

The ME3 story leak came from a beta of the demo that was leaked on XBox Live. Enterprising dataminers got in and found everything. It circulated through tons of sites - NeoGAF was probably the biggest offender until EA stepped in and levied a C&D order at them.

Right. This board -- or rather, its predecessor -- is a terrible place to research reactions to that leak because any discussion of the specific facts of the leak was immediately purged by the mods. Free discussion was only permitted in a special spoilers group.

[Draining Dragon]

Daily reminder about Cyonan's efforts to rebuild BSN:

The New BSN

And here are three other forums to consider moving to.

Top Shelf Gaming

Vroom Social Network

Real Dragon Age Fans

Feel free to join more than one.

[mrs_anomaly]

Yes. You did that... and in your anger you killed the gaming industry.

My anger? I do not think you know me, I didn't send Biower cupcakes, I disliked the ending and I'm positive that my response to the ending was "wow I did not like that because________" and NOT railing against Biower, nor did I ever beg for romance options except maybe once or twice expressing that I would really like Thane to survive Kepler's disease. 

 

*My* anger- uh I've not had any anger towards Bioware. You may be referring to a certain specific segment of the gaming population, perhaps Biower fans, but that would not be me chief. 

 

[Uirebhiril]

The OC for NWN1 was maybe not the greatest, but it wasn't the worst thing in the world either. And I don't know anyone who didn't get countless hours of play from the massive number of player-made modules after that was said and done. That created a community all its own and I suppose that is what kept me around all these years later. Playing the new games as they come out is awesome, but it's the part where I get to go talk to others about them on the forums that really kept my attention and excitement.

 

I'm not one to roll around in paranoia and tin foil, but this news really is making me feel nervous about future games and the future of the company. It just seems so bizarre to completely destroy the official forums to the point they aren't even going to be archived.

[Cassandra Saturn]

Feel free to join more than one.

you know, the community is so divided that lot of community members are arguing and fighting over which community forum is better. that's one thing i do not like. everybody in the BSN Prime is practically like my big family. we laugh, cry, argue, fight. i'm mostly trying to keep the community together in one place. not fighting against one other. all of this is caused by Bioware higher ups. if they didn't want to run a forum, they could have just picked someone to take control and run it independent on their own instead of running it. but that's just the moot point. i'm very committed to my community. i don't want them be gone just because of that decision by Bioware.

[AlanC9]

Well, english is considered in many cases the "universal language" (and that's coming from someone whose english is not his 1st language). So probably many people think if they speak english, they don't really need to learn any other language (which is selfish, I agree).
On the matter of how difficult is polish to learn as a language, I remember reading somewhere that is one of the most difficult languages to learn actually.

Americans are somewhat handicapped when trying to learn foreign languages, too. We don't typically teach too much formal grammar anymore; noun cases, verb conjugations, and so forth. It's workable since English is such a sloppy mess anyway that you might as well just learn how stuff sounds rather than think about the rules, but it means that you don't have the intellectual structure for a foreign language.

And a Slavic language is relatively hard since there isn't much that's familiar about it. English is fundamentally Germanic but with a ton of vocabulary from the Romance languages, and we don't hear much Polish unless you're enough of a film geek to have watched The Decalogue or Man of Marble.

[BatarianBob]

I've been pretty harshly critical of some of their more harebrained decisions before, but this one? Eh.

I've been to a lot of gaming forums over the years. They're all one flavor of trash or another (and we wonder why normal people hate gamers), and even by that standard, this one is a cesspit. How long can you reasonably expect any business to tolerate a community like this existing on its own property? Most would boot you out within minutes.

[syllogi]

*raises hand*

Yeah, there are a few of us left. FWIW, the Bio boards were always pretty toxic. When I joined up, NWN was getting an awful reception, between people who hated it because it wasn't BG3, people who hated it because it was a terrible interpretation of D&D 3rd ed., people who thought it was an appeal to casual gamers with the respawning and so forth, and people who believed all three.

 

The initial reception was pretty brutal, especially as I remember that there were a lot of complaints about the high scores NWN was getting from reviewers, but by the time SoU and HotU came out, the regulars were mostly mellow and constructive, and the devs were pretty active, as I recall.  Or maybe I'm just nostalgic for Neverwinter Wednesdays.

 

You'll find a certain percentage of angry posters on any gaming forum, but with attentive moderation, it usually doesn't get as bad as it can be here.