Gearbox Closing Forums, Moving To Discord
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Gearbox simply introduced that the corporate will quickly be closing down its dialogue boards, and inspiring all customers to as an alternative migrate to utilizing particular person recreation Discords for his or her neighborhood wants. I’m as soon as once more right here to say this can be a very silly thought.
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A discover on the boards—which have existed of their present kind since 2015, and for lots longer earlier than that—explains that they’ve already been locked all the way down to read-only and can quickly be wiped solely, with customers having 30 days to “save any content you want to keep”:
We’ve had many good years of conversations on the Gearbox Forums. This has been an incredible place to attach with all of you and a haven for wonderful discussions, builds, and help. During the previous yr, we seen a lot of our neighborhood members desire to have interaction on our different social platforms—and that’s nice. We love speaking to y’all and protecting the neighborhood going there.
Looking at the place the conversations are happening and suggestions is expressed, we need to proceed that dialog on our social channels the place a lot of the neighborhood is getting their data. Our Support group will proceed to obtain your suggestions and considerations via help.gearbox.com.
As of July 19, 2022, we are going to flip classes to Read-Only. This means members will now not be capable to create posts on the boards, however people will be capable to learn earlier posts. This will present 30 days to save lots of any content material you need to preserve earlier than it’s closed. Later this summer season, you’ll discover a brand new Gearbox web site and the boards will disappear solely.
Thank you for years of chats, guides, help, and for making this an incredible neighborhood. We look ahead to persevering with the dialog with you.
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This was, is and can ceaselessly be the dumbest fucking pattern in online game neighborhood administration. I perceive boards have gotten much less widespread, and that their glacial tendencies current plenty of challenges. The want to shut boards down when confronted with declining use and perceived advances in expertise is pure and completely comprehensible.
But shifting that performance to Discord isn’t the reply! Discord and boards are, as I’ve defined in depth beforehand on this web site, solely completely different websites with solely completely different functionalities!
Discord is nice for speaking within the second. It’s a spot for real-time conversations (or at lease these a number of hours previous in the event that they’re not as busy), a elaborate approach to handle a number of chat rooms and voice comms, and if that’s what you need—and hundreds of thousands of individuals world wide do, for a great deal of wants and desires—then nice!
Forums aren’t the identical although. They’re nothing prefer it. Forums are extra deliberate, extra thought of, and whereas they’re removed from excellent—I’m certain you may submit a billion examples of individuals being neither deliberate nor thought of on boards—the purpose is that they’re extra everlasting.
Forums create a document, an archive we are able to search via, in order that each time we need to revisit points, or discover assist with an issue, or see what was taking place throughout a sure time, we are able to do this. There’s a paper path, and whereas generally that results in embarrassing takes on television exhibits and recreation reveals, different occasions it’s offering an unlimited assist with technical points or elements of a recreation you’re caught on.
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Video recreation publishers and studios, I’m begging you, should you actually should discover a approach to migrate your communities and their legacy to a brand new platform or service, please discover (or make!) one that’s extra appropriate to the duty.