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[Solas]

Oops iakus beat me too it. Didnt see that post before I posted

[Vigilant111]

I had one warning point, that simply would not go away, to my eternal and lasting shame on my original account. Then I lost access, created a new account and have no warning points. I have no friends, no likes and no record of posts, but I do not have any warning points. Yay?

 

Oh well, in a few weeks none of this is gonna matter.

 

Right now what I need to be concerned about is whether I should extract and archive my posts bashing synthesis, yep, still quite proud of them even if they were not well written

[DaemionMoadrin]

Warning points were supposed to go away after a year or so but they never did. Yet another example of this forum not working properly.

 

I guess fixing things was too much work, so they nuke the entire thing from orbit. Once the dust clears and the "toxic" community has dispersed, they'll probably make a new forum. Unless they are actually happy with reddit's mess. I don't know about other people but I have problems following conversations in the threads there, if there even are any. While posts in actual forums can easily reach essay length, I've never seen that on reddit. About 90% of all posts there are less than 3 lines. Reddit also lacks most tools of a proper forum.

 

I don't know if I even care anymore. I guess my final opinion about all this will be "meh".

[En Es Ef Dubyu]

I had one warning point, that simply would not go away, to my eternal and lasting shame on my original account. Then I lost access, created a new account and have no warning points. I have no friends, no likes and no record of posts, but I do not have any warning points. Yay?

Same^.  2 warning points for fighting with David (for being a crazy feminist) and Auld wulf (for being a traitorous sexist to other women in order to earn brownie points with other men, cuz I thought turians were ugly). School email expired and lost password, lost account. New account. I do have some likes and I did get a warning point again. It was sexually motivated, cuz krogan are sexy 

[LPPrince]

I totally forgot about the Bazaar! What a time to be alive that was. You couldn't have made it up, nor the PR disasters to follow.

 

 

Aye, when the whole forum united with "I used to be part of the community but now I'm just from X"

[Rifneno]

Oh well, in a few weeks none of this is gonna matter.
 
Right now what I need to be concerned about is whether I should extract and archive my posts bashing synthesis, yep, still quite proud of them even if they were not well written

All things anti-synthesis are something to be proud of.

[Rifneno]

Gotten a few for this thread too. It's cute, the forum is shutting down forever and they're still giving meaningless warnings.

"You must acknowledge this warning before you can continue."

[Bryan Johnson]

Believe BroJo too. He was extremely active around here during the days of ME3MP and was always willing to discuss stuff.

Replying to an old post but w/e.

 

So I had posted earlier that I would get stressed etc. but ill provide more context into why I am less active here (Stress was probably the least factor, although things like the Gen3 discuss for DAI made me a bit so) but thats beside the point.

 

Yes ME3MP was my "glory time", the reason, I was largely involved in the live efforts for ME3, which mainly meant MP. I also loved (and still do) ME3MP, so as a result I was passionate about talking about it and I could bring something more to the conversation. Thus my activity at the time. Then when I moved to Dragon Age, I was not as passionate about DA as a whole when compared to ME (possibly related to being a first project, who knows). I had less to contribute, as I didnt know the lore, and I didnt have anything to add as I was on the technical side (you cant really tell people about tech before it launches). Then after it did launch I was involved in some of the technical aspects (although most of that was on Answers HQ).

 

This was also the time I went primarily over to reddit. Then I found I preferred reddit not because of the people but because of the format. Being notified when someone responded to something I said directly or being able to be 'paged' without having to go about it through a PM. Furthermore I very rarily upvoted/downvoted anything, I was completely removed from the moderation, so I couldnt be accused of censorship. Since I was doing some overnight work for the launch of DAI, information is critical to get quickly and I found again that reddit just allowed for that information quicker. If I replied to them in a reddit thread, they were likely going to get a notification nearly immediately and respond nearly immediately. I was then put on DLC for DAI, which again doesnt allow for much interaction/bringing things to the table when I cant really talk about the technology (the primary thing I work on).

 

Now I am on a project that I wont be able to talk about for a while so again, I have nothing to bring to the table.

 

tl;dr: I feel as though I have nothing to bring to the table

[Iakus]

I totally forgot about the Bazaar! What a time to be alive that was. You couldn't have made it up, nor the PR disasters to follow.

Sort of makes shutting down the forums a continuation of that bad PR trend...

[LPPrince]

Replying to an old post but w/e.

 

So I had posted earlier that I would get stressed etc. but ill provide more context into why I am less active here (Stress was probably the least factor, although things like the Gen3 discuss for DAI made me a bit so) but thats beside the point.

 

Yes ME3MP was my "glory time", the reason, I was largely involved in the live efforts for ME3, which mainly meant MP. I also loved (and still do) ME3MP, so as a result I was passionate about talking about it and I could bring something more to the conversation. Thus my activity at the time. Then when I moved to Dragon Age, I was not as passionate about DA as a whole when compared to ME (possibly related to being a first project, who knows). I had less to contribute, as I didnt know the lore, and I didnt have anything to add as I was on the technical side (you cant really tell people about tech before it launches). Then after it did launch I was involved in some of the technical aspects (although most of that was on Answers HQ).

 

This was also the time I went primarily over to reddit. Then I found I preferred reddit not because of the people but because of the format. Being notified when someone responded to something I said directly or being able to be 'paged' without having to go about it through a PM. Furthermore I very rarily upvoted/downvoted anything, I was completely removed from the moderation, so I couldnt be accused of censorship. Since I was doing some overnight work for the launch of DAI, information is critical to get quickly and I found again that reddit just allowed for that information quicker. If I replied to them in a reddit thread, they were likely going to get a notification nearly immediately and respond nearly immediately. I was then put on DLC for DAI, which again doesnt allow for much interaction/bringing things to the table when I cant really talk about the technology (the primary thing I work on).

 

Now I am on a project that I wont be able to talk about for a while so again, I have nothing to bring to the table.

 

tl;dr: I feel as though I have nothing to bring to the table

 

 

Brojo, I don't know how to tell you this, but you are the table.

 

What with this thing going down in flames anyway.

[Shard of Truth]

Everyone is talking about the " toxicity" caused by DA2 and the ending of ME3 but what about the angry outbursts that followed the ME1 PC port announcement? It sure was a sight to behold.

https://youtu.be/2uwg3GjvIzY

 

I was never a very frequent visitor here, mostly I came for guides, lore discussions and walk-arounds for bugs, which are still often necessary because we all know how much care Bioware puts in their post-release support. For this reason alone these forums should be kept open.

[AngryFrozenWater]

I had one warning point, that simply would not go away, to my eternal and lasting shame on my original account. Then I lost access, created a new account and have no warning points. I have no friends, no likes and no record of posts, but I do not have any warning points. Yay?

You have one friend now. I've just added you to my FL. You were there before. Never knew that you had another account.

 

Welcome back.

[AlanC9]

I never saw the point of it being where they landed, but rather the point being that a fan got to them and got to take the game home early.
 
And with that not happening more than once, it defeated the purpose.

Ah, gotcha. Yeah, grant that premise and the conclusion follows. I just don't think the premise is right.

[LPPrince]

mostly I came for guides, lore discussions and walk-arounds for bugs, which are still often necessary because we all know how much care Bioware puts in their post-release support. For this reason alone these forums should be kept open.

 

 

Well yeah. But then this place is being closed so if anything it reaffirms it.

[Iakus]

Well I've taken a look at reddit and...

 

By the Enkindlers, how does anyone find anything in that mess!?

[The RPGenius]

I had one warning point, that simply would not go away, to my eternal and lasting shame on my original account. Then I lost access, created a new account and have no warning points. I have no friends, no likes and no record of posts, but I do not have any warning points. Yay?

Look at the bright side.  A couple months from now, we'll all have no warning points, no likes, no friends, and no record that we ever said anything at all.  You're a trendsetter!

[Jeremiah12LGeek]

tl;dr: I feel as though I have nothing to bring to the table

 

We've always very much appreciated what you do bring to the table.

 

The ME 3 MP forum was a very chaotic, but highly productive place. Having technical insight from you in that process was a huge boon to the community's efforts to index the information.

 

Edit: Oh, and the fact that you were very cool with us. That was even better.

[LPPrince]

Is the forum closing trending on Facebook for anyone else?

[TobiTobsen]

I brought something cheerful; http://www.cracked.c...used-to-report/

[Shard of Truth]

Well I've taken a look at reddit and...

 

By the Ennkindlers, how does anyone find anything in that mess!?

You don't, that's the beauty of it, and since nobody really finds anything every discussion is either: a)a bunch of **** posts, b)the same as a week before, c)interesting but completely overlooked and therefore discontinued prematurely or d)completely ignored because nobody is willing to give an answer to the 1000th post of the same question the poor op can't find an answer for.

 

Welcome to reddit.

[Reznore57]

Now I am on a project that I wont be able to talk about for a while so again, I have nothing to bring to the table.

 

tl;dr: I feel as though I have nothing to bring to the table

 

In a new certain forum you can just post pics of cute bunnies and you won't get banned.

Or talk about the books you've just read in the Off Topic section.

[Skelly]

I'm not sure what to make of this news.  I'm not much for posting, but I did meet a lot of people through the old BSN, and I still come to this site for news and updates even though I don't typically log in to do it (since I'm just lurking ).  I like having BioWare news centralized; I don't want to have to glean bits and pieces one at a time from FB, Twitter, Reddit, etc.  Personally, I find Twitter and Reddit hard to follow conversations on.

 

And I'm concerned about how just plain bad this makes BioWare look to a lot of people.  I'm not sure what they think the ultimate upside is to closing this forum.  And...while there's still nothing out there quite like Mass Effect, we live in a time where there is an overabundance of good games/new releases people are hyped about.  Between now and Andromeda there will be new releases for Deus Ex, Final Fantasy, Destiny, and XCOM, as well as highly anticipated titles like ReCore and Scalebound.  In other words, if people become disillusioned with BioWare over this, they have lots of other options. :\  I remember when you were lucky to get one good new game a year...the market is saturated now.  My husband regularly bemoans how selective he has to be now about which games he plays, because there are too many good/appealing ones and not enough time.  And I worry that closing the forums is a move that ignores how much competition there is out there for gamers time and money. 

 

I support BioWare, and will continue to do so, but I find this decision very bizarre.  Does not compute.  All this being said, I'm just a lurker, to take my opinion for whatever that's worth.

[LPPrince]

You don't, that's the beauty of it, and since nobody really finds anything every discussion is either: a)a bunch of **** posts, b)the same as a week before, c)interesting but completely overlooked and therefore discontinued prematurely or d)completely ignored because nobody is willing to give an answer to the 1000th post of the same question the poor op can't find an answer for.

 

Welcome to reddit.

 

 

Worse than that is down votes. If you have an unpopular opinion good luck getting it thru to devs.

 

Lets look back at this forum after DA2.

 

I remember posting a very long essay worth post on why I thought the playersexual romances in the game sucked and that characters should have their own likes and dislikes along with preferences for what kind of character they'd go for romantically.

 

David Gaider showed up and basically rinsed me in front of everyone for having my opinion. Made me look bad in front of a lot of people for feeling the way I did. Naturally he got supported a lot by people because he's a developer so people will naturally support him for his position and there were a lot of people that were happy they could romance whoever they wanted with reckless abandon.

 

Yet many people continued to push that playersexual romances were dumb. A lot of people felt this way. And what happened in Inquisition? Playersexual romances were a thing of the past and we got characters with their own preferences.

 

Well 1. Don't trash on my opinion so much if you agree with it and 2. Had that been on Reddit back in the day my opinion along with many others would've been down voted to hell and no Biodev would've ever seen it. You'd continue to get terrible romances in games where the player could have a field day doing whatever in the most artificially feeling way imaginable.

 

Again, Reddit isn't fit for this.

[Abedsbrother]

I'm fearful for its present, too, really. I have all the games via Origin, since I don't own any modern consoles. If this is indeed the beginning of a controlled crash-and-burn (which, again, I think is possibly where they expect things to do with Andromeda), then I may just end up completely losing the games I bought in the first place.

The Origin client is currently undergoing a redesign. Not sure if the new one is going to be more "social" (I expect so), but I doubt the games you purchased are in danger of disappearing.

 

As far as the forums closing, I was more of a single-player kind of gamer when I started playing Mass Effect. Mass Effect 3's multiplayer taught me so much about multiplayer games - it gave a good base of experience and was the first multiplayer game where I can with confidence say I "got good." My "getting good" didn't happen without reading hundreds of threads, asking for advice, and - more importantly - receiving it. Regardless of what games I go on to play, my travails against hordes of Reaper slaves was made better by these forums.

 

Based on BioWare's statement from their blog, the closure of these forums is contradictory to their stated desire of listening to fan feedback. At this point, I'm resigned to the fact that I'll never understand the decision - at least, not in a way that leaves great expectations for the future of BioWare. I'm not saying this to pile on. I want nothing more than for BioWare to continue making great games for years to come. But closing off a primary avenue of discussion while saying they value fan discussion is not the action of a company with a clear purpose.

 

And now, some music to calm everyone.

https://youtu.be/sUKiOcV1SSc

[Nefla]

Is the forum closing trending on Facebook for anyone else?

Yeah it's the second from the top for me