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Blackrayn
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This Saturday, Dec. 10th, the Forums will become unavailable as we make preparations for launch. When they become available again, you'll notice many exciting changes!
First of all, we'll have many new forums available where you can discuss all aspects of the game, from Crew Skills to PvP. The Guild Hall forums will be expanded significantly and will include new "Looking for Guild" forums, class forums will contain sub-forums for each Advanced Class, and we'll introduce a new Story and Lore forum for discussion of the game's setting and story. To encourage constructive community building, you'll also notice a "New Player Help" forum and a Community section that includes areas for regional check-ins and meetups, all kinds of fan creations and role-playing, and forums for server event organization. These are just some of the new forums we'll be introducing. We're looking forward to all the great discussion!
Another new feature we're implementing is our Community blog, which will appear at the top of www.SWTOR.com/community. We'll use this blog for important community announcements, updates, and to post articles of interest to our community members, so make sure to check it out frequently!
The launch Forums will be a fresh start: all threads, posts, and private messages will be removed and warnings and infractions on your account will be deleted. If you have any special posts or private messages that you would like to save, please do so now! When Early Game Access begins, only those who have redeemed their Pre-Order Code will be able to post on the forums, though everyone will be able to view them. Then, when the game officially launches, only those who have active game time will be permitted to post.
As we move forward, we will continue to improve our community forums. You can expect to see new features that make it easier to find developer posts and several updates to our skin to make everyday use of the forums easier for everyone.
We're very excited about the changes that are coming, and we can't wait to work with you to make the Star Wars™: The Old Republic™ community a great experience for everyone!
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nice.
And those with guilds that have used the guild tool forums, don't forget to retrieve any data you want to save, because those will be wiped too.
"Don't corpse-camp that idea. Its never gonna rez"
Bladezz (The Guild)
As long as they don't wipe mmorpg.com V_V
My brand new bloggity blog.
Hm. Would that mean (seems so) that only active accounts will be able to post? That will be interesting going forward. Sounds good to me.
I very much like that idea on forums, no reason for people that don't actually subscribe to the game to troll around official game forums, not as if you won't have decent people with quality questions, but the trolls always far outway them.
Absolutely love it
So instead of ´hater´ vs ´fanboy´ you will get the ´hardcore´ vs ´casual´ flames, in my opinion not much of an improvement...
You must pay to have an opinion!
Well I'm from Denmark where we practice freedom of speech. Which sometime give us problem, if you ever heard about the Muhammed drawing...
I disagree with this, pay to say. But then again on the net its so cool to be haters, make blogs to just hate things. Strange kind of kids this world is fostering atm..
Anyways i gonna pay so i can use it so guess i shouldn't care, with all the trolls it might even be better to restrict freedom of speech.
This is going to backfire so hard....
Just be careful about EA forums. I've read about people getting called swear words, and the person being targetted by the offender, gets banned from the forum and all their games banned/deleted.
No I'm not kidding.
Why should people who have NO vested interest in the game be able to post on the official game forums? Let them post their opinions elsewhere, while those who subscribe and are directly affected by the discussions and announcements on the forums can go about their business. There's other companies that do this, I hope I won't need to name them...
Or, have a public section of the forums, and a subscriber section.
PROBLEM SOLVED.
Why should it backfire? And excellent marketing move. Only those who pay for the game post on forums, therefore opinions are generally positive, otherwise they'll not pay, right? Those who find the game boring/bad/lacking cancel their subscriptions, therefore they can't post on forums anymore, therefore all the epic whining, dramaquits and donkeyhurt will be absent.
Where average, normal people go when they want to know how good a game is? To the official forums. What they will see there? Generally positive atmosphere. Wise marketing strategy adopted by many game publishers/producers, especially in, say, Russia where moderators delete any negative posts from game forums, even by paying customers. There is actually no way how it can backfire, since your average person won't be even aware, reading the forum, that it's censored; he will just see that players opinions on the game are generally positive.
EA/Bioware to non-subscribers: "We don't serve your kind here. Get out of our establishment."
Thanks, but coincidentally im already watching 1984 just now, no need to summarize the plot for me.
Absolutely the right thing to do for so many reasons. For non-subscribers, that's what other sites such as mmorpg exist for anyway!
But why should they have a public section? With the public section, a new potential customer can stumble on the public section and actually read negative opinions of the game, thus preventing him from buying; and existing customers will likely also visit public forums and, instead of being positively reinforced, will be subjected to soul-destroying negativity which will hamper their gaming experience and prevent from getting full joy from the game.
People feel themselves the most content and happy when they are succumbed in echo-chamber; as an American, you should know it - just look at the Fox News. And it's a goal of the gaming company to make their customers happy and content, isn't it? Thus, they are absolutely right in removing the gaping hole in the echo-chamber which is public forum.
"Just be careful about EA forums. I've read about people getting called swear words, and the person being targetted by the offender, gets banned from the forum and all their games banned/deleted.
No I'm not kidding." -Kaydeperson
This has happened before but that's because someone quoted the guy who swore at him. If someone uses abuse in reply to a post you make DON'T QUOTE HIM and you'll be fine.
Edited: Forgot to quote lol. Oops.
Are people serious? Really? Just because its SWTOR you just hate on it.
Hey, WoW has the same deal with their forums. And have had för 7 years. Do you say something about that? Noooooooo, it's WoW. How could we say something like that.
Sigh. These forums. Such a joke.. such a joke..
We all are living in 1984 since long before 1984. The secret of successfull propaganda is not telling people what government wants them to hear; it's telling people what they want to hear.
At least they have a forum unlike Dark Age of Camelot that bumped off the old Vault Boards whilst charging us a sub. Official forums should be for those of us who pay the others have other places to go. People who have no subs are not invested in the game .
May be one of the reasons why WoW is so successfull. And nobody is hatin'. I'm all totally for it. It actually will improve people's experience from visiting forums, not being forced to cope with 1) spammers 2) stupid questions from people who don't know donkey balls about the game 3) people who don't play the game but, nevertheless, for some reason, have an opinion about it.
Thanks again, but I have basic highschool education, I'm just more cynical about it.
Welcome to the age of "entitlement"
Soon you will see Occupy EA/Bioware movement ROFL
Sounds good to me. Sites like this are the place for people who have no interest in playing a game and feel the great need to tell everyone about it over and over and over again.
Currently Playing: World of Warcraft
:shrug: There is issue here. It's pretty much standard forum policy throughout the industry at this point.
Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more we dwell on it, the smaller we are and the larger the problem seems to grow.