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[AlleluiaElizabeth]

EDIT: Conal kindly informed me to post this thread in this board instead. Consider this thread moved I guess: https://forum.biowar...bioware-forums/

 

Guys, they're gonna close the forums down!

 

http://blog.bioware....ing-our-forums/

 

Concerning Our Forums

 

Spoiler

July 29, 2016  by Conal Pierse

This message is also available in French, German, and Polish.

After great consideration, we are closing down the BioWare forums, effective August 26, 2016. The Star Wars: The Old Republic forums will continue to operate; however, our public boards for Dragon Age, Mass Effect, and legacy BioWare titles will no longer be available.

 

This wasn’t an easy decision.

 

Our players are important to us. Your feedback, stories, and love for our games drive and inspire us.

 

In the past, our forums were the only way we could speak to you directly. They allowed our developers to talk with fans, and gave our players the opportunity to talk with each other about our games. But with the rise of social media and geek culture, there have never been more ways for us to connect.

 

Now we can travel around the world, meeting with you face-to-face at events like PAX, SDCC, and even shows in our own backyard. We can share stories with you on the go, giving you a look behind the scenes on sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram.

 

In turn, you’ve built your own fantastic communities in places like Tumblr and Reddit. You’ve created comprehensive Wikis and countless pieces of fantastic art, fiction, and cosplay.

 

With so many great things so widely available, our developers today find themselves spending more time on other sites, and less time in our own forums. And to our fans and players who came to those boards looking to talk to us, it was a great disservice.

 

So it is with a heavy heart that we will close our public forums on August 26, 2016. We will maintain some private boards, and may use these in future for beta feedback or other special projects.

 

Because we know there is a lot of information on there you may want to keep, the public boards will remain in a read-only state until October 25, 2016. After that date, they will be taken down.

 

While we are saying goodbye to this venue, we remain committed to our community and will always be here to listen, share, and support you. Online and in person, we will continue to seek out opportunities to interact and share in our combined love of games.

 

Filed Under: BioWare, BioWare Social Network

 

So, the basic logic here is that the developers don't come to these forums to interact anymore and don't get feedback from them, so they're closing the forums down. If we care at all about these boards, we need to speak out now. 

 

1) DON'T BOTHER COMPLAINING HERE. Take to social media. Respond to Bioware's tweet. Link: https://twitter.com/...058847088508930  Go on their facebook. Take to reddit if you know how to reddit.

 

2) BE POLITE. Express a desire to keep the forums open, but don't call them names or attack them. Focus on what the forums mean to you and why you want them open and not how utterly stupid their reasoning is, honestly. 

 

If there was ever a time to create a social media account or interact with them elsewhere, I guess its now. Let's make ourselves heard, BSN!

[BioFan (Official)]

They are responding to folks who comment on the tweet. Make your voices heard, but please do so respectfully and constructively. 

[AlleluiaElizabeth]

They are responding to folks who comment on the tweet. Make your voices heard, but please do so respectfully and constructively. 

What he said.

[BioFan (Official)]

There's an official thread as well

 

https://forum.biowar...r-forums/page-1

[The Ascendant]

All good things come to an end. Oh well.

[Catilina]

It is not enough money to maintain ... Completely understandable if they closed, non-profit, not worth it. 

[AlleluiaElizabeth]

Conal kindly informed me I could post this thread here: https://forum.biowar...bioware-forums/  and have it be considered on-topic, so please go there instead if you want to comment on this specific topic. Thanks.

[raging_monkey]

Well with the general negatively I'm suprised we have been still open

[Andromelek]

Please tell me if they change their mind, my plan was simply to go crazy across the BSN and be banned prematurely

[BioFan (Official)]

I had a lot really wanted to say, because this place has given me so much over the years. 

 

[GoldenGail3]

Please tell me if they change their mind, my plan was simply to go crazy across the BSN and be banned prematurely

I'm gonna follow your plan 

[Tishina]

In the official thread, Conal said the decision wasn't due to money, which makes it much more puzzling to me as to why they're doing it. The social media they list aren't places for discussion, and frankly, Twitter in particular makes me feel like I'm shouting into a void (especially if you don't have 100s of people retweeting what you tweet.) Even though devs had Twitter accounts, it never felt like most of us were welcome to say anything (and how much can you really discuss in, what, a 20 word limit for tweets?) Nothing on the FB page had anything to do with discussing DA:I, just lots of "who's your favorite..." type things and contests. Cute, but discussion?

[thesuperdarkone2]

I'm gonna follow your plan

Me 2 lol

[ZipZap2000]

The lack of a central point from which all information can be filtered through to third party sites.

Sucks.

A lot of youtube vids are just repeating what they see here for example. The same for twitter and other places. Without that there is no msg, just Chinese whispers.

What we will now get is one message for twitter, another for facebook etc.

Which means we don't all have the same information. We all have bits and pieces of information, gathered as best we could from various sources.

Discussion will die.

The ability to socialise with other fans in a way that is productive and informative is greatly limited.

And more importantly Bio is going to lose the what little control they have over the conversation.

It's do and say what ever you want out there in most cases.

Nothing you can do about it though guys. Just roll with it till its done with.

[Obsidian Gryphon]

In the official thread, Conal said the decision wasn't due to money, which makes it much more puzzling to me as to why they're doing it. The social media they list aren't places for discussion, and frankly, Twitter in particular makes me feel like I'm shouting into a void (especially if you don't have 100s of people retweeting what you tweet.) Even though devs had Twitter accounts, it never felt like most of us were welcome to say anything (and how much can you really discuss in, what, a 20 word limit for tweets?) Nothing on the FB page had anything to do with discussing DA:I, just lots of "who's your favorite..." type things and contests. Cute, but discussion?

 

I think they've had enough of "discussions". Now they just want to dispense the pills. How we take it is our own business. Don't like it? We can just slap a bad line over at Twitter, etc and it gets scrub off / vanish quickly. Like it? Slap a line of praise which they'll likely let shine.

[bunnynoldo]

I really hope they would reconsider. The forums are the best place to read about / discuss the lore and to get help and guidance. To shut it all down and delete all the contents fans have been creating for years seems totally counterintuitive. Also as many of you I hate using twitter and reddit. I'm affraid that this decision will backfire on Bioware as angry fans will be more critical and less civil with the games

[Colonelkillabee]

Honestly, without the community here to discuss the games, I gotta say my desire to play their games is greatly diminished, ESPECIALLY now that I'm on a PC and not xbox live anymore. All the fanfiction and stuff, reading fan theories and being able to respond and throw in your own, etc, all that made me want to play Inquisition and favor Inquisition a lot. I played the hell out of DAO because it was easier to. More actual content, less fetchy tasks.

 

Inquisition being so fun for me had a lot to do with you guys as I'd only decided to play it so thoroughly because I wanted to discover more about the lore with the rest of you, again because I wasn't on xbox live and was seeking people to interact with concerning the games. Honestly, without that, I'd have been a lot less driven to play this game. I guess there's the steam forums but meh. This community despite the many annoyances was more entertaining.

[Colonelkillabee]

I really think they're greatly underestimating how valuable it is for fans to see that Bioware has a place like this for fans to discuss their games. It impressed me back when I was just a lurker, same for Bethesda's forums. They nuked their old one too and made this ramshackle crap to replace the previous one but only for the more current titles, and it's not very user friendly. And now Bioware's doing this.

 

I used to greatly enjoy just lurking the forums back when the old one was still around, reading all the posts from fellow fans and what they had to say about the game. It was what helped me decide to actually start playing my first bioware titles. For people to be so passionate about their games, it must've been good I thought. And they were, Mass Effect especially will always be a favorite series of mine.

 

They're making a very big mistake, but alas.

[BioWareMod06]

This thread has been locked.

 

Please refer to this thread when discussing 3^rd party forums migration: https://forum.biowar...ommunityforums/

 

Please refer to this thread when discussing the forum closure: https://forum.biowar...forums/page-146

 

Thank you.