shivnz: im just amazed so many people see the developer taking down the forum
(at a time when people have the MOST concerns and issues requiring developer attention) and not bothering to bring it back up as a NON ISSUE. how does that NOT scream 'we dont care' to you guys?
They go through even bigger pain, like this. Commenting in the Community section is a real pain considering it doesn't have threads and is full of spam and haters, having to reply to 10 times the normal amount of support request e-mails is a real pain, because you have to answer the same questions over and over and over.
There's just no advantage in taking down the forums, except that vague "they did it because like this no one will read how sucky their game is on the forums!!".
I agree. The timing was bad. My guess is, that the old forums couldn't have taken the HUGE masses swarming in upon release. So they had to upgrade the forums and PLANNED to do that before release - which for whatever reason didn't work. Maybe something unforeseen happened - or maybe their time management just wasn't appropriate. But concluding right away that they don't care and ignoring all the support they ARE offering, is, as I said, unfair.