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According to a post on the Bioware Blog I missed earlier they have launched a new forum site. The site will be used for all past, and future games. Here are the details.

Announcing “the BioWare Forum”

One of my favorite moments at a convention is one that you guys never see– it’s the moment right before we open the doors. After months of planning — and shortly after inhaling coffee that’s just a bit too hot –we’re ready to let you in and see what we’ve been up to.

Today, we’re sharing another one of those moments with you. We’re launching the BioWare Forum, which I believe will be an exciting addition to our online space.

Before we get into details, this is not the discussed community destination site currently still in development. That site—which builds on fan and employee surveys, interviews, and other feedback—is still to come, and we can’t wait to share details as we continue working towards this. However, this reveal is part of the roadmap to get us there, and brings us one step closer to the promise to both ourselves and fans to continue rebuilding a positive, constructive community.

The BioWare Forum replaces the old discussion forums, adding new features designed to foster an entertaining, educational, and safe space for developers and players to engage one another. Among the improvements is updated technology that allows for much more robust moderation, along with a new set of guidelines with more clearly enforceable rules. A new design lightens the look and feel of the site while keeping the tone of the modern BioWare brand. Other notable features and changes include:

  • Mobile skinning and functionality for the first time ever
  • Converting posts from the (now “legacy”) BioWare Social Network over to conserve pre-existing threads
  • Rebranding social.bioware.com as a new landing page to guide players to our key online spaces including Dragon Age Keep, the BioWare Forum, N7HQ, and EA Answer HQ
  • Curating Legacy BSN as a Read-Only web portal available as a link at the bottom right-hand corner of the new social.bioware.com
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The old forum was a disaster. Even the one before it.
Dunno how does the new one look and frankly, I'm not sure when will I visit it at all. I've used their forum only to register bloody Origin games and Bioware points fraud.
 
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I use it quite a bit for "legacy" games. At least they were successful in transferring the old threads, and semi-successful in moving accounts over. But there have been some complaints about the amount of white background used.
 
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White space is the curse of modern software. Did you see MS Office 2013? They've installed it on our PCs… It makes eyes to bleed and is impossible to turn down the brightness of useless white space.

Who is to blame? Noone in particular. It's lousy smartphones that did this. And everyone just has to apply yucky phonelooks onto their software. Hello Bioware, some of us use forums on PC, not on some overexpensive phonecrap!
 
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rjshae said:
But there have been some complaints about the amount of white background used.
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Even the devs are complaining about it.
 
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joxer said:
Who is to blame? Noone in particular. It's lousy smartphones that did this. And everyone just has to apply yucky phonelooks onto their software. Hello Bioware, some of us use forums on PC, not on some overexpensive phonecrap!
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Just this once I will agree with you Joxer.;)

White background and squares. All I know I'm tired of websites becoming mobile friendly.Something always feels wrong when they do.:disappointed:
 
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Last time I was on a bioware forum was 09 I think, I don't see that changing. Buncha crybabies and downright creepy folks there, as I recall, and those things I can do without.
 
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Surely the haters will be shaken off by this move, and the new forums will be filled with positivity and good humor!
 
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Last time I was on a bioware forum was 09 I think, I don't see that changing. Buncha crybabies and downright creepy folks there, as I recall, and those things I can do without.
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Heh, well I haven't experienced that but I suppose it depends on which forums you visit. Every gamers board has its haters, it seems.
 
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The SWTOR forums appear to still remain the same.
 
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Alrik, this is Bioware forum. Not a forum dedicated to some MMO game. :p

It does contain some interesting things, like this:
http://forum.bioware.com/forum/29-bioware-points-help/

Once you check recent stuff on that link, it's highly probable you'll never return to that forum. As it's - useless.
 
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Wow those forums look absolutely awful. Way too much wasted screen space, and that pure white background...
 
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I hate the white backround. Not easy on the eyes at all. Who made the decision? Can it be changed?

So I quess i won't be visiting there much.
 
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