Close the Official Forum

The original Guild Wars did not have an official forum. Communication between ArenaNet and the players happened through multiple fansite forums, each with their own community.

When GW2 was released, the official forum felt like one more thing done just because other MMORPGs did it too.

Now, when we have so many kinds of social media and Reddit, this place is simply not necessary. Considering ArenaNet's situation, this forum is a waste of resources that would be better used elsewhere.

Close it. We have other ways to communicate with ArenaNet. Maintaining the game is far more important than keeping this forum.

Maybe they’re contractually bound to having an official forum as part of their services or terms of business? I can see how such a thing might be necessary.

Hysteria much now? Just don’t come here than problem solved.

@"Balsa.3951" said:Hysteria much now? Just don’t come here than problem solved.

Yes, because a player not coming here means ArenaNet won't be wasting the limited resources they have in an unneeded forum ;)

I suggest finding out what "hysteria" means before you accuse others of it.

@Erasculio.2914 said:

@"Balsa.3951" said:Hysteria much now? Just don’t come here than problem solved.

Genius u figured it all out how it was the forum who drained all that needed money out ! I should use another word instead of hysteria but I would get infracted so I move along now with a face palm....

Only being here a short while...No, these Forums should never be shut down.These OFFICIAL Forums are tremendously helpful towards the Game.And inherently valuable towards the Product.But then, perhaps your trolling.

@Balsa.3951 said:

@Erasculio.2914 said:

@Balsa.3951 said:Hysteria much now? Just don’t come here than problem solved.

I'm amazed at how you believe keeping this forum and moderating it is free. Then again, thank you for proving my point about how wasteful this forum is.

@Erasculio.2914 said:

@"Balsa.3951" said:Hysteria much now? Just don’t come here than problem solved.

"The limited resources"? They had an overblown roster, half of which seems not even were working on GW2, but on some "unnamed projects". Now those projects are canceled, and hopefully they will have enough manpower to handle GW2, at last.

@Erasculio.2914 said:

@Balsa.3951 said:

@Erasculio.2914 said:

@Balsa.3951 said:Hysteria much now? Just don’t come here than problem solved.

@Erasculio.2914 said:

@Balsa.3951 said:Hysteria much now? Just don’t come here than problem solved.

I think @Balsa.3951 pretty much nailed it actually

Please don't close the forum. It's the first place many visit for news, not Reddit

It will likely be rolled into NCsofts main portal, along with the website.

Don't think that because we have less moderators that you monkeys can go bananas ??

I personally find the forums to be a much superior way of communicating and discussing than Reddit, and would be very saddened if they were to ever shut down.

@Erasculio.2914 said:Now, when we have so many kinds of social media and Reddit, this place is simply not necessary.

Close it. We have other ways to communicate with ArenaNet. Maintaining the game is far more important than keeping this forum.It necessary for those players that don't use the other methods needed to contact Anet that you do. Maintaining the forums is handled by a different set of resources than the game.

what and rely on on the cesspool that is reddit?

Part of the cost of doing business imo is providing and supporting a method to communicate with your player base. Reddit isn't ANet, and I find it ridiculous that so much of the initial announcements and communication runs through a NON-official forum before the official forum.

@"Kaiser.9873" said:Part of the cost of doing business imo is providing and supporting a method to communicate with your player base. Reddit isn't ANet, and I find it ridiculous that so much of the initial announcements and communication runs through a NON-official forum before the official forum.

If the point is to share information, then you do so where the most people will see it. Most "official" forums aren't used as much as the reddit/social media counterparts by the player base, and as such, it makes sense the developers/publishers would use them less too. If people want developers/publishers to use their "official" forums more, then they should get more people to use it, and less to use the alternatives.

Um ... I use these forums FAR more than the social media places, where I do not have (and never will have if I have any say in the matter) any accounts. These are clear, easy to follow, easy to search (finally, yay), linear, and all in one place.

And somehow I doubt that paying for forum maintenance and some people to moderate them is more than a drop in the bucket of what goes into running and growing an MMO. They're bigger scale than most guild forums, but very similar in concept as to the thread posting, and every Tom, Richard, and Harry seems to set up custom guild websites on platforms such as Enjin for a negligible cost per year, with more features.