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[Kaldor Silverwand]

[Copied from the Bioware forums announcement]

 

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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.

[Kaldor Silverwand]

I'm not sure if there is any way for someone to suck the NWN2 topics out and make them accessible elsewhere, but otherwise I think it is going to be very hard for NWN2 modding to continue.  This is sad.

 

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[GCoyote]

Certainly makes the investment we've made in the new vault look prescient. 

I still haven't played everything we have stored there.

[Kaldor Silverwand]

I guess I will start up nwn2mac.freeforums.org and nwn2mod.freeforums.org.

 

Regards

[kamal_]

Better make your vault accounts now. And someone should post about it in vault forums so they can get to work on scraping the forums.

[kamal_]

I guess I will start up nwn2mac.freeforums.org and nwn2mod.freeforums.org.
 
Regards

Not needed, vault 2.0 is community owned and the server fees are already paid for several years

[rjshae]

Well this sucks. I suppose it was inevitable.

 

I'm not sure if there is any way for someone to suck the NWN2 topics out and make them accessible elsewhere, but otherwise I think it is going to be very hard for NWN2 modding to continue.  This is sad.

 

Yes, it'd be good if we could somehow get an archive copy.

[Kaldor Silverwand]

Better make your vault accounts now. And someone should post about it in vault forums so they can get to work on scraping the forums.

 

I've posted it to neverwintervault.org.

[Tchos]

But with the rise of social media and geek culture, there have never been more ways for us to connect.

 
And now there will be one less.  What nonsense.

[kamal_]

And now there will be one less.  What nonsense.

Forums are the place where the playerbase can talk to each other. Social media... not so much.

[Tchos]

As I mentioned elsewhere, don't forget about the dedicated NWN1 and NWN2 forums on the Nexus, complete with specific subforums similar to what we had here (General discussion, tech support, mod talk, mod tech support, and mod requests), running IP Board with all its usual amenities, like proper message quoting and colour-coded scripting formats.

[kamal_]

"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."

That makes my head spin..

'We will increase our disservice those who come to us looking to talk about our games.'

[Kaldor Silverwand]

With each of these transitions we lose both critical content and community members.

 

At this point I think what might be best would be to capture as much content as possible, format it into a searchable document and upload it to Google. If there was a script that could walk the site and compile the content that would be great, but I lack the skills to write such a thing.

 

Regards

[kamal_]

With each of these transitions we lose both critical content and community members.
 
At this point I think what might be best would be to capture as much content as possible, format it into a searchable document and upload it to Google. If there was a script that could walk the site and compile the content that would be great, but I lack the skills to write such a thing.
 
Regards

We scraped all the content from old vault. Since I saw henesua post in the nwn1 version of this thread I'd guess something like that is already being worked on.

[rjshae]

As I mentioned elsewhere, don't forget about the dedicated NWN1 and NWN2 forums on the Nexus, complete with specific subforums similar to what we had here (General discussion, tech support, mod talk, mod tech support, and mod requests), running IP Board with all its usual amenities, like proper message quoting and colour-coded scripting formats.

 

Yes it seems like a reasonable site, but the traffic is virtually nil.

[Tchos]

Yes it seems like a reasonable site, but the traffic is virtually nil.

 

I know.  I suggest people change that.