About official forums

It looks like official boards were the prevalent discussion these days. Because of what happened on the SWG boards and Lum’s and Raph’s replies.

I’ll contribute by pointing out a post from Mark Jacobs (about having or not official forums):

Folks,

No, no, no, a million times, no.

And, our excuse was not that we didn’t have the resouces (that was true pre-DAoC) but rather, our reason is that official forums quickly become ugly, hate-filled places (the most successful US-based MMO of all time, WoW has worse problems than some really bad games’ forums) with a huge signal->noise raitio after the games release. I’ve seen what happens with every MMO released and I am going to spare Mythic the headache that is associated with those type of forums.

I’ll just say that not having official boards nowadays is rather stupid.

Oblivion has official forums, Company of Heroes has official forums, Dwarf Fortress has official forums. It seems quite odd that official forums are a standard and become very useful for single-player, offline games, but they are considered as useless headaches if they are about online games that are all about community building.

And you would be very blind to not see the important role that WoW’s forums had for the community.

It’s incredible how the signal to noise ratio of a community of 2 millions of players just in NA can be low.

(btw: higher signal to noise is better, the signal is ‘cleaner’)

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