One of the most notable is in the ways players interface with various platforms, communicate with each other and with game publishers or studios. Community managers denied any connection to cost cutting measures, instead quoting a 'general state of decline with regards to the level of engagement they receive and the number of people who interact with them.'įor a long time now we’ve been following different behavioral trends in our game community and the games industry in general. Many players feel that Discord cannot replace a structured forum with already several years worth of content.Īs of now, this only affects World of Warships, Wargaming's other popular titles like World of Tanks have not announced any plans to close their forums. The forums not only serve as a hub for community discussion, but also contain a large number of other resources like technical discussions, new player guides, as well as community reviews of premium content in the f2p game like premium ships.įorums also have been the place of many heated discussion and controversies regarding in-game events and holiday sales, among the 'Makarov gate' controversy about allegedly false advertising on holiday loot boxes and a large scale walk-out of community contributors.Īpart from the closure of the forums, the decision to chose Discord as the main community platform to replace the forums has been a highly contentious point. This was negatively received by an what appears to be a majority of the active forum users, many stating they do not intend to join the Discord server. Posting new content will be disabled on the 28th of July, only three days after the first announcement, with the forums intended to stay in read-only mode until October when they will finally be shut down. Wargaming announced that it will shutdown its World of Warships Forums in all regions (NA, EU, SEA RU unclear as it was split off several months ago) on the WOWS website, intending to move the community over to Discord.

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