Hey everyone,
Really sorry about this and while I understand your worries this is not a sustainable model. First because as we are divided by regions we currently can't have a unified forum. Also, as Open beta will bring more and more people, we wanted to be able to respond to everyone and have devs go to one place instead of 3 different forums. That being said, we are looking into solutions for this.
To answer some comments I've seen which I actually can explain why we took that decision despite what you think are proofs we shouldn't:
- Actually out of these 41k members most are inactive. In truth our metrics show that the level of activity here is very low.
- Regarding having all information in one place, we already do. We have a website for this: www.totalwararena.com All The other channels are here to ensure people don't miss it.
- If you manage to do a fan site-foruml, we're more than happy to promote it to help you build an even bigger community - that is not an issue.
- Having a poll only on forums asking if we should or not take forums down would not have a surprising result. About maximum a 100 maybe 200 replies, with 20-30% not sure/ok with it and 50-60% minimum saying no. Go to a specific area and tell them they all need to move to another area and ask them what they think about it. Obviously, most of them would want to stay.
- FYI - On reddit you have the option to sort out by new, so you can read the latest answer at the top and so go from bottom to top to follow the discussion as it happened.
- Going into Open Beta we want to be sure that the information and the dialogue with the devs works best. Obviously devs can't go to 3 forums, and as atm we can't have a unified forum that would suit our needs it made sense for us to go where we see more activity.
I know this won't satisfy some of you but I hope that it will at least help you all have a better understanding of our intentions. And no we're not planning the downfall of the world with the illuminatis (that would be cool on my CV thought...)
Thanks for sharing your concerns and you have been read.
Akriom