Question about the new Forums

"Wed_Santa;c-2461565" wrote:
I don’t know, @Lumiya but this feels like the wrong question. I’d be more interested to know if there will continue to be a discrete community support function from CG - or will that be wrapped up into EA? What’s the future for the studio in relation to the game? Not to read too much into it but I notice they’re still not hiring - and the website is getting very out of date (eg it still offers a broken download link for HOME). What are the plans for the game?

All of this occurred to me as well. I don't want to come off as "game is dying" because I certainly don't believe that, but if CG is turning over their autonomy over the forums to be fully handled by EA, that smacks of a re-org, which is rarely good for the game in question - or the players that enjoy it. Needless to say this is concerning - I may be in the minority here, but I trust CG to have the best interests of the game at heart - I can't say that I feel the same about EA proper.

I don't mean to be all doomy-gloomy - the game seems like it's in a good place and I'm not pessimistic about it - but it would be really great to have a bit more insight into what's going on. Handing over the forums to EA feels weird and surely has larger implications.