Back in the good old days of gaming of 2011, back when BioWare was blowing people’s minds with the Mass Effect trilogy, they had community forums. A place where fans of Dragon Age and Mass Effect could gather and speculate about what happens next. Or, pester the developers for whatever romance they believed should be in the next game.
And then, after the release of Mass Effect 3, they promptly erased their forums and moved all discussions to Twitter. This effectively silenced many discussions, because by nature, Twitter is an algorithmic beast that prioritizes only certain things.
With the collapse of web2, Twitter especially, I wonder if they might bring those forums back.
BioWare, if you’re reading this, bring back the forums!
Probably more focused on regretting making Anthem and Andromeda, haha.
In all honesty though, no, the company they are now is a far cry from the one they were then. Newly sold to EA only a few years before that, still had a lot of the “old guard” who made the great games great and hadn’t undergone enshittification at the hands of their capital overlords searching for dollars from fomo and GaaS.