No, I'd say they're both equally dead.

The main forums are a ghost town since the new forum roll out.  The fact that it took a good portion of the forum crowd weeks to even be able to login is a big part of it.  Many have gotten out of the habit of going there.  I know I have. 

officially, I can tell that seen from Europe, there's there's more activity ( between Azog, Tere and me ) during our work hour than on the official DDO forums.

Hell, I spend more time rummaging through the night ( for me ) posts on the Vault than on the official forums... before they feather_of_sun'ed the forums I was spending more time on the official forums than on the Vault.

Dickbutt wrote on Jun 5^th, 2013 at 11:59am:



Too true.   Though the last time Feather posted here it lead to the greatest Epoch post ever.

painkiller wrote on Jun 5^th, 2013 at 2:18pm:

Solar Dawning

0% f keys used

I've been to the DDO forums twice in the last 30 days, both times referred from the vault and not out of just going there on my own.

Of course I only look at the vault like once a day now during the work week give or take.

I gave the new official forums a shot, but gave up on em pretty fast. Turbine's track record on listening to their public is bad enough to be a punchline... and the new WB logo on the tabs displaying the new forum pages instead of DDO logos makes me think this change was inflicted from way above Cordo and Tolero's paygrade. No chance it'll ever be more then just fractionally better then it is now.


It's no secret that I used to hold the other forums in high regard. Well, the people - not the Mods. Jerry can choke on a sloppy dick as far as I'm concerned. But, I enjoyed the community and had a lot of fun with most everybody over there. But the new forums are just horrible enough that I cannot even browse over there anymore.


And sadly, the community was pretty much my last tether to the game itself. I haven't spent more then 45 consecutive minutes in DDO for weeks now... and the times a week I even bother to log in at all is in sharp decline.  I put up with fucking aweful game design for years, swallowed every questionable design choice since Unlimited was put forth, tried to put a polish on every Turbine turd-based expansion. Turbine finding a way to fuck the forums up the ass was just the last straw.


I should  thank them for that, at least. It was beyond time to move on from this cluster-fuck of a game. At least they helped me find the impetus to do so at long last.


Fuck Turbine. They deserve themselves.

I've noticed a sizable increase in registrations since the new format came out. I really doubt there's more activity here than there, though.

Turbine managed to do with their new forums what all of their mule-account bannings failed to do.  The people they want off the forums have finally left.  Unfortunately, a bunch of the people Turbine wants ON the forums also went at the same time.

Stanley Nicholas wrote on Jun 6^th, 2013 at 12:43am:


Personally I am willing to go down to once a day.

But 4 time an hour is just retarded.

Strakeln wrote on Jun 5^th, 2013 at 8:36pm:


Many are probably too afraid to actually post.