Question about the new Forums

"Ultra;c-2461605" wrote:

"herd_nerfer;c-2461577" wrote:

"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 Not to read too much into it but I notice they’re still not hiring - and the website is getting very out of date (eg it still offers a broken download link for HOME).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.

Eh

it seems the traffic gained on forums is not worth the server cost to maintain it

Which isn't a big deal since forums are a dying medium with discord and other more active and real time messaging platforms being the new trend (we have game companies that use discord servers as an official means of communication instead of owning a dedicated forum)

easier to reduce the message board load costs on to EA who already have the platform