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[LliiraAnna]

Since these forums are closing soon, I figured I'd take this last opportunity to write something "from my heart".

I remember, back when I was a kid, my father bought a game. This game was Baldur's Gate 2. I barely understood what was going on, but something in it caught my attention. And I tried to play it! It was hard. Or seemed to be hard. But getting things done, even if it was just making it past one difficult fight, made me happy.

Baldur's Gate was *the* game that got me into RPGs. If not for it, I'd probably never play all the games I've played by now. It was the game that introduced me to the world of video games, with their awesome stories and characters and music. As funny as it sounds, it shaped me in a way.

And for that, I'm grateful. So I want to say "thank you" for all the games you created. For all those awesome stories and characters and more. They were - and still are - a part of my life. They inspire me. They are one of the reasons I started drawing, one of the reasons I want to be able to create a story of my own one day.

If not for those games, I wouldn't even be able to speak English today. They were what made me learn this language properly.

I don't know the real reason behind the decision to close this forum, so I won't judge. However, it does make me sad. It makes certain kinds of feedback if not impossible, then at least highly unlikely. It scatters the community. It destroys thousands of pages of character analysis and lore discussions, as well as threads that help with bug solving, discuss builds and strategies, and more. It makes me wonder if there wasn't any other - better - way out.

But if that's the final decision, I can only hope that it was worth it.

Destruction can be justified if you intend to build something better instead. I want to remain an optimist and hope that while this forum might be gone, another will take its place in due time. Because games *need* a community. Game developers need a community. There are tons of wonderful people here; some of them have been supporting you and your games from the very beginning. Scattering them like this seems like a big loss.

Good luck - and, I guess, farewell.

P.S. I also want to say "thank you" to all the people here on the BSN - I might not have been posting much, but a lot of things were interesting to read. I hope everyone will find a new "home", and that no friends will get lost. All the best to you, guys! Stand strong.

[Conal Pierse]

Since a number of people have asked for and tried starting similar threads, we will make this one the sole thread for saying goodbye to the boards and your fellow posters

[Hammerstorm]

I haven't been very active on this forum but I have lurked A LOT and want to thank Bioware and all the fans for all the help and all the laughs I have got from this place. 

it is sad that it is being closed but everything has an ending.   

So long and thanks for the fish.   

[LliiraAnna]

Since a number of people have asked for and tried starting similar threads, we will make this one the sole thread for saying goodbye to the boards and your fellow posters

Thank you.

And good luck and all the best to you, too - hope you are alright, since dealing with all this must be quite stressful

P.S.: to future posters: let's keep this thread nice, yes? To be an example of how the community ~isn't~ all toxic at all

[ModernAcademic]

I wrote this farewell message in my profile and have come to share it with the BSN:

 

 

So...August 26 is the day, huh?

 

 

 

Well, even if August 26 is the last day we're allowed to post, I'm not rebelling against the Admins or deleting my account.

 

I want people to be able to come here, read my posts and have a good experience with them, just as I had reading yours. 

 

There was a legacy I built here, a small one, with the few contributions I made to the forum. This experience, the experience the BSN forumites proportioned me, with their fun remarks, their insightful arguments and enlightening analyses is something to be treasured and remembered fondly.

 

 

 I'll come here and keep posting until the deadline. This place gave me far better memories than bad ones. This is where I first came in touch with people from all over the world. Over the years, the interaction with you granted me the necessary confidence to express myself and talk to others in a foreign language.

 

In my country, it's not everyone who has access to a good education. Learning English properly is still impossible to many. Practising it, even more so. So my time spent here was an investment that turned out to be a fulfilling personal experience in ways I couldn't even imagine when I first posted here.

 

This was also the only place I had to discuss some of my favourite metaphysical and philosophical notions that happened to be present in the games. You know, things that we learn at University, stuff that we read in books, but have nowhere or no one to talk to/about? This was the place to do it.

 

Never mind if the thread was about the Chantry, mages and templars, or Loghain and the Wardens, each topic could have so many ramifications that it went far beyond discussing merely in-game content, such as if Loghain should live or die or if Gaspard or Celene should rule. Those topics raised questions that were discussed in-depth. Some people elaborated such well constructed arguments that I was genuinely surprised with the quality of the debates. And I learned so much and shared so much in these past few years.

 

I regret that the decision was made to shut this place down. It's difficult to say goodbye to a place where I come everyday, no matter the time, just to have that sense of fulfillment that more mundane activities don't provide. I'll miss the debates, the light conversations, the sense of humor, even the occasional berseck troll. I still can't believe this is happening. It feels just like the Inquisition is being disbanded and the soldiers are being sent home against their will.

 

With that said, I hope we'll see each other again in another forum. If not, know that I'll remember each of you BSNers fondly, even the people with whom I happened to disagree once or twice. And that I'm sorry we can't interact here any longer.

 

To my fellow forumites, I wish you all the best. 

 

[Element Zero]

As I begin typing, I'm not really sure what I'm going to say. I guess we will see where this goes.

As much as I dislike it, I can understand the long series of events that brought us to this ending. My modest post count is, in part, due to the fact that I simply never could handle this place in very great doses. I'd come when games were pending or freshly played, and we'd discuss the hell out of them. I'd come when new info was released during development, and we'd speculate for weeks. Then other interests, duties and necessities would call, and I'd disappear for a many months.

There were dark times, too, that drove me away for long periods. I'd somehow forgotten how I'd left the boards after the Dragon Age 2 complaints got too wearisome. I came after Mass Effect 3, completely let down, and found a community full of similarly confused and disappointed souls. I, though, couldn't let a video game pull me down for months on end, and so I again stayed away for a long time. I can only imagine how soul-crushing a time it would've been for a developer. I can completely understand why they abandoned the forum. I wish it weren't so, but it is. I wish EA or BioWare (I really don't know who is making the decision) weren't pulling the plug on us, but they are.

So, here we are. I'm really going to miss this place, because those dark days aren't the whole story.

I originally joined in 2004. I can't even recall my original sign-on. (It was a Chinese pseudonym, in homage to my love for Chinese classical literature and my recent completion of Jade Empire.) I eventually (re)created a new account in 2010, and the rest is a well known tale, I guess. My life circumstances had recently changed in such a way that I'd thought I'd be able to spend a bit more time around here (for better or worse! ) The place seemed to be mellowing with age, and I hoped the useless troll threads would dissipate once real Andromeda info was revealed. No such luck, it would seem. We were never to reach N7 Day.

I've had a lot of fun, over the years, coming here to discuss BioWare's games-- my favorite games. Having this forum full of other passionate fans with whom to share these journeys made the experiences so much more than they would've been alone. I knew I could come here at any time, any day of the year, and find hundreds of people actively, energetically debating the active IPs. Even the Legacy forums are active. That is pretty incredible, and that's what we are losing. It will be hard to replicate that in our new online homes, though I really hope we succeed.

So, my heartfelt thanks to you fellow fans who share my passion for these games and shared your journeys with me. I hope I was able to enrich your experiences as you've enriched mine. I hope to see many of you in our new online homes. To those whom I won't meet again, may life treat you well, and may you find many, many more wonderful gaming journeys in your future. It has been an honor sharing this quirky little corner of the intrawebs with you.

-- Element Zero, aka tallrickruush

[Unfair]

Used to be a member here, but I left because time's no longer my luxury. Now, everything here is going to disappear.

 

Thank you BioWare, for your amazing games and for giving me hundreds of hours of entertainment. Thank you for giving me Javik, Merrill and Miranda.

 

Thank you BSN, for being such amazing fans to hang around with. Nothing on any other website has ever matched this place for me. So many users here were fun, intelligent, unique, amusing, insightful, interesting in their own amazing ways. Sure, there were a bunch of trolls, bullies and outright jackasses... spending time around on BSN after the DA2 and ME3 release may have been unhealthy, but I'll always remember the great laughs I gained from many of you.

 

 

Well...

 

Goodbye.

 

I wish you all the very best.

 

[LPPrince]

I don't think I'll leave a proper send off post to the BSN, I think I'll just resume posting as normal until closure. But if anyone at Bioware has it in them, feel free to hop in here too.

[vertigomez]

I don't have much to say that I haven't said elsewhere. I've loved these games and I've loved reading about and discussing them since I first got my hands on NWN... that must've been back in the early oughts. I can't stress how rewarding it's been to be able to have an in-depth conversation about something I love with other fans who are equally passionate about it. Even when I disagreed with people, the fact that we were all here and that we all cared enough to discuss a game or character or quest for hours or days really meant something (and no, I don't think it meant we should've been doing something more productive. I don't regret any of the time I've spent here).

I've made lifelong friends through this forum. Even the people I don't know very well, their usernames and avatars and posting styles are all recognizable, comfortable, familiar. I'm going to miss that sense of community. Kudos to everyone out there trying to save as much content as possible, and those who're trying to build offshoot communities to keep this whacky little village together. Yer doin gud & u should feel gud.

Anyway, I'm pretty solidly in the acceptance stage of this little grieving process, and the work that dedicated folks are doing to keep us together? That's a big part of that. So, uh. So long and thanks for all the fandom?

P.S. I'm sorry if I was ever a Meaniepants McDouche to you. Unless you deserved it. But you probably didn't, so I'm just gonna go ahead and apologize anyway.

ilu bsn. bye bye.

[phagus]

Thank you and farewell my fellow forum posters and lurkers, and to you Bioware(whats left)/EA I simply blow a raspberry....and fart in your general direction...

[SlottsMachine]

A lot of the magic for me died when social.bioware met its end, and even moreso when off-topic was closed but I've had a lot of fun here over these last 6 or 7 years. Other than that I don't quite know what to say...

 

 

Haha. Anyway, hopefully I'll be seeing everyone elsewhere. Peace. 

[Duelist]

To this site and the cool people I met on here, peace.
To everyone else...

[Spirit Vanguard]

copy/paste:

 

I don't do goodbyes and I haven't been active here long enough to feel the full weight of this closing but I'm truly sad for those that have spent many years here, made lasting memories, connections and personal triumphs with the help of this place. I like to loaf about and will continue to do so on the lifeboats for however long I feel; ride out the storm and see where everything lands. Some will mark their end here, others will carry on.

 

So for me it's not goodbye, just "See you later, cowboy..."

 

[Fexelea]

I am sad these forums are closing, but there's no need to say goodbye, so I will not.

 

All the posts will be saved to this subforum. Mass Effect Andromeda, ME1, DA:I and DA:0 are all up already.

 

And members who wish to post in these threads can continue doing so - just sign up and post away.

 

Also for those wanting to claim an account, there is the few hours here left to do it here, or go to answers.ea.com and send me a private message (you can log in with your bioware credentials)

[Element Zero]

I am sad these forums are closing, but there's no need to say goodbye, so I will not.
 
All the posts will be saved to this subforum. Mass Effect Andromeda, ME1, DA:I and DA:0 are all up already.
 
And members who wish to post in these threads can continue doing so - just sign up and post away.
 
Also for those wanting to claim an account, there is the few hours here left to do it here, or go to answers.ea.com and send me a private message (you can log in with your bioware credentials)

I feel like a special thanks is due you, Fexelea. Your work has been extraordinary. Fextralife.com and BSN.boards.net have made this bitter pill easier to swallow. Knowing that you've saved so much of our collective history, and that our community is not completely scattered and lost, is a huge thing. Thanks.

[laudable11]

Bye guys. Just bye..

[Fexelea]

Thank you Element Zero!

 

Now post around so the forums don't get dusty

[Draining Dragon]

RIP BSN. Press F to pay respects.

 

F

[Cyberstrike nTo]

Everything that has a beginning has an end. So it is with BSN. I could be upset, but I'm not. Because I've joined a couple new BioWare message boards and I've even became an admin at one of them. I look at it as the end of one era and the beginning of a new era. Maybe these new communities will last longer than here or maybe they won't. I will say for the rep of this place being incredible toxic it's actually not, or not as toxic as other gaming sites are, this one is actually pretty laid back all things considered. I'm sad to see it go, but other places are now running and while I will miss this place, I know where I can find most of the people I want to talk to, I will miss having one site to go to talk to them, but that is the way of life. Maybe I need to get out and explore more sites maybe I have gotten to comfortable in the same places and should be looking for new places and experiences.

 

I'll see most of you around uBSN, cBSN, therefuge.net, and other sites.    

[Orian Tabris]

There's really nothing that I can say, that hasn't already been said here, and in the "Concerning Our Forums" thread, so here's some Friends goodbye/leaving gifs, instead:

Spoiler

 

There's one more I'll hopefully be able to post tomorrow. My time zone is way ahead of the forums, so it shouldn't be a problem.

[Zjarcal]

I'll just keep on playing the games and talking to the same people on steam and like 5 different places, whoop dee doo.

[Hagspawn]

Had fun lurking since 2009, will just have to lurk in other places now  bye forums 

[Lenimph]

I'll just keep on playing the games and talking to the same people on steam and like 5 different places, whoop dee doo.

 

I'm really happy that I met you here. We had fun 

It was fun everyone, now I have my dumb discourses on tumblr but.... there was something about here that was really nice before the switch to this new forum but yeah.

[Obadiah]

Farewell to a helluva community!

[rossler]

It's been a slice.