He's right. Look at WoW.. the only useful information that comes from the official WoW forums are Blue posts, which in the case of Warhammer, would probably be posted on the Herald anyway. People don't go to the official WoW forums looking for good information anymore, they go to third-party sites like Elitist Jerks or WoW Insider.

After seeing what the official WoW forums have become, as well as the old DAoC forums, I don't blame him one bit for not wanting to put himself or his people through that ever.

And the money argument is completely ridiculous. As another commenter noted, the cost of hosting a forum compared to the cost of the actual game infrastructure is a drop in the bucket.