I have been watching the GW2 website for the opening of their official forums
https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum
The website says "Forums Closed".
I lead a guild on Northern Shiverpeaks and I have found the lack of official forums and the inevitable trolling, doom and gloom, comparisons to wow etc to be a blessing. Me and my guild members just focus on playing the game, building our guild and having fun.
This begs the qeustion, does GW2 even need official forums?
We all know what is going to happen the day they open, they will be invaded by the usual "please add x, y and z wow feature", ragequitting, endless doom and gloom etc that we have all seen in other games.
I can see it now...
- Why doesnt GW2 have flying mounts?
- GW2 needs an arena.
- GW2 needs more end game.
- Im 80 and I am already bored.
- GW2 sucks because _insert_troll_topic_here_.
- Elementalists need polymorph and blink.
- Warriors need charge.
- I want a taunt.
- Why cant I spec healing?
- Why cant my gaurdian hold aggro?
- The group finder sucks.
- Why cant we form raids and go pew-pew raid bosses?
- GW2 needs resilience.
I could go on and on. Obviously, most of the above list is crap but just wait, the forums will be filled with inane posts with topics like the ones above. As a guild leader, when I go to a games official forums, I am usually there for a reason. If the forums are cluttered with the usual garbage, it just makes my job difficult. Even worse, I have to explain to my guild members that all of those doom and gloom posts are a bunch of BS. So for now, I think the lack of official forums is a good thing but that's just me.
Edit: If ArenaNet does open the forums, I hope that they are heavily moderated. I would recommend the MMO-champion mods. In fact, I recommend that they just let MMO-champion be their official forums. The last thing I want to see is another game destroyed by trolls and phony doom and gloom.