I have to agree with that. I liked Warhammer a lot personally, but therer was (and may still be, I've given up) a long-running issue where the game was completely unplayable on mid-range to high-end equipment. You'd get horrible stuttering and pausing problems, regardless as to whether or not you had settings set max or high. As much as I liked the game, doing anything was near to impossible because of this. My first instinct upon joining was to search out online to see if anyone else was having a problem and I found the WHA forums. I had little interest there beyond the threads talking about solutions for this issue, but even still I saw moderators locking threads about it, saying it wasn't real, even while fifty/sixty people were complaining about it.

My personal last straw was when their swear word filter edited my post for containing "crap"-- in the context of, "I replaced my good graphics card with a crap one and the game works fine now"-- and I edited the post with a comment to the effect of "Wow, that word gets moderated here? That's better than you'll hear on prime time television." I got a nasty warning from a moderator for that, and I haven't gone back to the forum since.

I agree whole heartedly about Warhammer Alliance, when the Combat and Careers patch notes, the big one that Mythic had been telling everyone was going to fix everything came out and indicated Mythic didn't know what the state of the game was, carpet bans happened.

Not 1 day, or 3 day bans. But 30 day bans, not for profanity, not for harrassment, but for what goes on everyday on other forums: Passionate discussion of a game people are paying to play and care about.

If Warhammer Alliance cared about the fact they were used as forums since Mythic did not have it's own, they shouldn't have just started mass 30 day bannings as a reaction then should they?

Mythic was cheap to not have it's own forums, this is the post-WOW era and MMO's can't opperate like pre-WOW days. EQ2 had forums, why didn't Warhammer??

If Mythic had made forums from the start, their patch notes would not have confused and depressed as many as they did because they would have had a clue what was going on with their game. But since they did not, they were unaware of the issue threads on different class forums, sticky'd for months but they knew nothing about it.

Mythic should have had forums from day 1, hopefully every MMO company from here on out that has a ounce of brains will see what happened with Mythic and not try to cut corners and peddle support of their game to others.

I bought the CE, I played in Beta, I had high hopes for Warhammer. The lack of forums had a greater effect on the games after launch success then I think many think.

I'd love to see a example of how having no official forums has brought long term success and better customer support as a result. I hope Bioware does not follow in Mythic's footsteps on the forum issue.