Official forums are bad, so as fan made ones...for the simple fact that both censure what players say, even the fan made ones. If the critiques are to extreme they simply delete your post or ban you, leaving only the sheep's voice to be heard. Constructive criticism is a good thing but most of the time the moderators or the company's that monitors the forums have big egos and don't like to be criticized. Game forums are the closest thing to a communism experience one can get in a democratic country...China, Russia anyone !

Fan made forums are partly if not totally runned by the company's that puts pressure on the fan that run the forums or simply the fan takes upon himself to run the forum with an iron-clad fist in hopes of impressing the company and lending a job over there ($$$).

I rarely sign up in those forums because I don't blend in very well will all the sheep's in there. I say things the way I see them..If it looks like shit & smells like shit, well it must be shit ! A lot of the people on forums cock suck the moderator or admins , or simply act like ones in hopes of becoming ones.

Of course I am generalizing and not all forums are like what I describe, except for the people sucking to moderators that is a universal rules :-)