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!
The forums I frequented were mostly based on phpBB. I remember the vBulletin name, but can’t say I remember Invision. There were so many great forums out there back in the day. Sad to see most of them seem to be gone now. Although I like services like Lemmy, things just seemed easier back then. Maybe I’m romanticizing the “old” days😅