With the recent announcement that
Mythic would be bringing the
Warhammer Online forums in-house, the topic of the pros and cons of official and unofficial forums have been brought out again.
Ryan Shwayder argued very eloquently that developer interaction, ownership, and support for integrated features, and
we've now heard from some of the forum managers who will be affected by Mythic's decision to put out their own forums. There are great points across the board, but this morning we thought we'd ask you - in specific relation to
Warhammer Online - do you think that Mythic should (or should not) be opening forums at this (post-launch) stage? Perhaps you think they should limit them to only customer service and developer interaction and leave the more free-form discussions elsewhere? Or do you think that the fully-featured forums they're planning is absolutely the way to go - if only to (hopefully) have a moderated forum to discuss all things
WAR on? How about those indie forums; what could they do to keep readers coming there? What balance of official and unofficial forums would you like to see for
Warhammer Online?
Tags: customer-service, developer-interaction, forums, official-forums, paid-staff, tdg, the-daily-grind, trolls, unofficial-forums, volunteer
