Folks,<\/p>\n
No, no, no, a million times, no.<\/p>\n
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><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I’ll just say that not having official boards nowadays is rather stupid.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
And you would be very blind to not see the important role that WoW’s forums had for the community.<\/p>\n
It’s incredible how the signal to noise ratio of a community of 2 millions of players just in NA can be low.<\/p>\n
(btw: higher signal to noise is better, the signal is ‘cleaner’)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-1516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-warhammer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}