Bethesda retiring their discussion forums

[maflynn]

I just noticed this on their discussion forums
BETHESDA.NET FORUMS TO BE SUNSET

After many years of fostering a thoughtful and passionate community on the official Bethesda forums, we have made the decision to sunset the forums on Bethesda.net.
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To continue our direct relationships with our communities, we will be moving our conversations from the Bethesda.net forums to our official Discord Servers.

I have to say, I'm really bummed out. I'm not a fan of discord - seems like a glorified chat application. I'd rather interact with the other players via a forum. I'll probably just transition over to the fallout 76 reddit page.

 

[MysticCow]

Because IT IS a glorified chat application. IRC on steroids, more or less.

It also allows scammers in Warcraft (and others to be fair) to bypass any form of action by a GM, since the chat occurred outside of a Blizzard-ran chat.

 

[pmiles]

Because IT IS a glorified chat application. IRC on steroids, more or less.

It also allows scammers in Warcraft (and others to be fair) to bypass any form of action by a GM, since the chat occurred outside of a Blizzard-ran chat.

Bethesda has nothing to do with Blizzard. Wrong company.

 

[MysticCow]

Bethesda has nothing to do with Blizzard. Wrong company.

Just using as an example. Sorry for not clarifying that.

 

[Tsubame]

I have no idea of the numbers, but I would speculate that more and more people populate non-official venues for games these days, especially things like Reddit or Discord. You probably don't lose a lot by not maintaining official forums. I know some [smaller] studios actually just support Reddit as their official channel as well.

I never use Discord myself either for chat functionality (only for voice when playing with friends, sometimes) but I do use reddit pretty extensively. If I am interested enough in a game to discuss it, Reddit is the first place I look.

I pretty much only end up on official channels when a tech support search lands me there.

 

[maflynn]

By and large, people over on the Bethesda forum (specifically the fallout 76 discussion) are just gutted, there's been a sense of community there for some time - heck there's some active people there who stopped playing the game but continue to be connected to the forum

Here's what I see right now on the fallout-76 channel on discord, just a confusing stream of unrelated posts. No organization, no topics to have a dialog with, just people chatting (all at once)

 

[Huntn]

I just noticed this on their discussion forums
BETHESDA.NET FORUMS TO BE SUNSET



I have to say, I'm really bummed out. I'm not a fan of discord - seems like a glorified chat application. I'd rather interact with the other players via a forum. I'll probably just transition over to the fallout 76 reddit page.

Discord servers?? That sucks. Community interaction will be better on Steam. Discord is great for in-game coms but much too perishable to keep track of coherent threads with subject titles. In fact there are no coherent threads, just a continuous stream of chat/blather. What a cop out.

 

[decafjava]

Same thing happened with the Epic forums. I don't care anymore as the only mobile game I would put at the same level as my desktop games, the Infinity Blade series, were removed from the App store and while one could keep them on the device they have stopped even working with iOS 14.5 so I just said "sayonara" and thanks for the memories. There are Discord servers for Epic games even for Infinity Blade but I dislike the format compared to the forum and since I no longer play well...