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BioWare official forums shutting down! END OF RINE!

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https://forum.bioware.com/topic/574907-concerning-our-forums/

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.
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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.
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Wow. This is the most surprising. I mean it takes practically nothing to keep a read only forum online. But they'll just nuke it in a few months? Huh.

Not that I'm complaining (I have never been there myself), but it just seems pretty extreme.


EDIT: It'd be even more interesting if they robots.txt this.
 
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Next to strictly moderating that place, I'd say this is the next best course of action for Bioware, as that place has long been a major embarrassment and detriment to it's brand name with all those romance creeps and weirdos that act like they're fighting for real life social issues in their games against a surrogate klan(the templars from DA).
 
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Mustawd said:
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.
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Wow. This is the most surprising. I mean it takes practically nothing to keep a read only forum online. But they'll just nuke it in a few months? Huh.

Not that I'm complaining (I have never been there myself), but it just seems pretty extreme.


EDIT: It'd be even more interesting if they robots.txt this.
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IIRC they tried doing that with their old (pre-BSN/pre-EA) forums, and then they got hacked. Not sure if there's a connection, but...it's one more thing to worry about for them. Perhaps somebody will step up and archive the forums.
 
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I don't give a shit about BSN, but this thread did make me wonder where I would go if (when?) the Codex closes down.
 
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Unlike when original forums moved to BSN now there is truly nothing of value being lost.
 
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