Joking around aside, I'm still sad about the lack of logic in and the flawed reasoning given for the closure, and that they still have not taken note of any of the many legitimate practical concerns that multiple users have brought to their attention more than once (bar one), much less provided any concrete tangible solutions or guidance on the matter.
This is not the BioWare I've zealously loved and passionately supported and defended for over six years. That defense btw has been across not all, but still many fronts, ranging from the people who decry BW for "pandering to SJWs" to the extreme SJWs who think every little thing BW do is something-phobic..
It's a recurring joke amongst my friend group irl that over the years I've single-handedly generated BioWare's merchandise profits and turned more people onto playing their games than their own marketing department. The joking statements are ridiculous super-hyperbole to be sure but the amount of money I've happily spent on clothing and posters and extended universe comics and books etc, the amount of people I infected with my passion for the games (I count at least ten friends off the top of my head who bought ME or DA games on my recommendation / as a result of my constant enthusiasm beating them over the head until they submitted [lol]).. That is without even going into the people I reached on my blog, where I sometimes get messages saying I converted them to loving x character or generated their hype for z character or soothed their worries over y upcoming game such that they will still buy it or that they followed me for news updated on one franchise but as a result of following me got into the other.. My n7 hoodie gets called my "turtle shell" or "the MJ uniform" because I'm hardly seen without it (I might as well be a parody of myself). Me and my ten friends and my blog followers/readers are a drop in the ocean of game purchases and a speck of dust compared to your social media reach of course, but still. I might as well be a walking talking billboard for the company. A FREE billboard. A billboard that continually /gives them its own money/. There's another recurring joke as well, that if BW packaged a turd in a box as their next game I'd still play it and enjoy it and give it a high rating. I acknowledge there's a grain of truth in that.. I wasn't blind to the flaws of DA2 but I still absolutely adored and enjoyed the game. I had a few small issues with the ME3 endings but was overall okay with them and again freaking loved that game. And so forth
I'm no financial analyst and I don't know any figures, and I'm sure the people you reach on social media/the 'casual gamer' market (like I see people saying are the reason why BW does x and y at the expense of their hardcore old fans, to reach more casual gamers and new customers) vastly outnumber and as a group outspend/create more profit than fans like me, but I wonder. If there are nine other fans like me we turned one hundred people onto your games. And that grows from there? If a casual gamer buys the game once, in comparison as an individual I (we really, because the people that frequent BSN are not usually the casual type) generate much more profit (two copies of both Me3 and Dai [dont ask why], 2 n7 hoodies [old and new kind], all the comics and books except for mage killer at present [on my to buy list], at least 6 posters in which one specific character is featured or at least appears in around my place [that's just one character btw], getting the CEs and all the dlcs, preordering in good faith, bioware merchandise friends get FOR me for birthday presents and the like, that's still money going to you that originates from me, because believe me I get a lot of those as well..) I don't mean that I should be catered to over anyone else or that I'm more important, I'm not. I am just expressing a worry about the future of the company if the revenue and other support from that sort of fan is lost? And really its the fans like this that carry the spirit of a company also :/ they carry it with them and nurture it like its a little flame.
Three things BioWare: I would not have become such a passionate hard line fan without a community of fellow fans to discuss my passions with; a community of that nature will not be found in the future on Twitter or Instagram; and this is the kind of fan that the forum closure seems to be turning away. :| this is not meant as a threat or a "pre-order" cancelled moment or even as an impassioned don't close the BSN plea, by the way but as a genuine expression of disappointment and dismay. I'll still get Andromeda because I'm so invested in the universe, but how long til that is eroded away even in people like me? Evidently it's been eroded away for many others already as a result of other actions in the past. Maybe now that I've experienced what for me is my first "blow" I understand those people a bit better. For them things like da2, ME3 ending, offtopic closure and so on has been blow after blow. There's only so much people can take or ignore, you know?
I'm sure it's entertaining to some of the folk who turned away from BW years ago (you know the kind.. Genuinely toxic trolls that stayed around only to criticize and make trouble, who slammed on BW for every fault real and perceived, who spent time personally targeting devs) that a 'BioDrone' is finally feeling kicked in the nads by the company that they should up d have 'seen the light' over years ago ("told you so!"), or that there are some reading who are frustrated shaking their heads like 'you stupid sheep it's your continued patronage that allowed them to continue making games and creative decisions that were bad or poor quality, the BW you loved hasn't existed for several years you brought this on yourself', or people who think my level of interest/love for the games is pathetic or unhealthy but I don't really care.
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I did sort of point that out to them (by asking for clarification) in a PM, but they don't respond or even usually read PMs. Because that will certainly help people follow the rules 
