So after all of this, what have we learned fellow fans?
Simple. Bioware intentionally let this place go to **** via unproductive and alienating mod and admin teams, completely inappropriate handling of multiple boards such as the off topic and group sections, and an utter refusal to incorporate any sort of feedback system for the fourms, or any dialouge between us and any human being who wasn't just temping a numbered account anonymously.
Why? Simple. They didn't need us. They don't need people who would go out of their way to come here, to post about their games and comics and properties. Not when they had twitter and reddit to feed them endless praise, and with tools to easily block out dissent to create a complete insulated enviroment free of criticism.
After all, bioware doesn't need to answer if the layout in a reddit page or tumblr post is bad. Nor do they have to answer for anyone badmouthing the fans and banning people left and right on such sites. Additionally, places like twitter don't require you to give any reason to block and mute dissenting opinions with extreme ease. Nobodies gonna make a post about why you banned someone via twitter, and you never have to see it. A win, win, for a company who doesn't want to hear anything but positives, and nothing about negatives.
They had a social media platform they intentionally crashed into the ground in favor of ones that offered them more filtering ability and less feedback options.
In other words, they attained a George Lucas level of circlejerking and pandering, making entire films in nothing but massive soundstages and tons of monitors, where they could just drink their coffee, sit and watch their monitors, and hear everyone tell them how awesome and visonary they still are.
I actually still engage on places like Twitter. I actually find it easier to have conversations in some capacity due to Twitter's nature of not showing posts unless you follow the person and at least one of the people tagged in the message. So it's unlikely a random person will interject to derail something.
That said I also like Twitter because it's a bit easier to talk with people as friends rather than explicitly as dev-fan. Sometimes that latter relationship is fine and even desired, but sometimes I don't want to be talking with any sort of symbol of authority and whatnot.
I also felt it easier to mute/block because, as the forums are a BioWare thing, I felt a stronger degree of responsibility and that I shouldn't make anyone's posts invisible to me lest they be doing Terribad™ things on the forum.
From the mods own keyboard.






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