Dragon Age Lead Writer Calls Bioware Forums "Increasingly Toxic"

I totally agree that there is a point where too much is too much.  You look at some official game forums and even the community leads start getting nasty cause they can only handle so much of how people portray themselves on those forums.  Dealing with your customers is never an easy task, I mean the only thing I can think of is having people that can successful gather the good and bad information in forums and give the game developers the information they need or could use.  Which that is nothing new cause that goes on anyway.

 Not sure why but it seems like the Internet gaming community have completely turned on bioware over the past 18 months, maybe its because of the EA buy out

Take the ME3 ending, after the uproar I was expecting the game to be complete toss, but its still a great addition to a great series. Even the ending wasn’t that bad if you ignore your companions magically appearing on your ship in mid mass effect jump (altho thats since been rectified in the extended cut). It was just a massive over reaction while other story based games with equally “weak” (if not weaker) endings (heavy rain, witcher 2, ac3, etc) don’t even get a mild whine

It really isn’t surprising at all that they tune it out after a while, if they didn’t it would drive you mad i think

I see nothing wrong with him or the company not taking any more feed back from their forums or even going there much at all. Being someone who reads gaming forums semi regually I know how negative and repetative many of them are. Its normally just walls of hate/negativity that could really get you down if you where making the game that the forum is centred on. The few positive posts are either quickly drowned out or devolve into hater vs fanboi wars. I would not think bad of them if they said that they don’t read the forums at all anymore or take feed back from them.

The problem is that 90% of the folks on forums believe that they have earthshakingly original ideas. They either don’t read the other posts or somehow imagine their wall of text to be the magic wand devs have been asking for.

You know how people generally don’t like being nagged by their mothers, husbands, wives, bosses, etc? Imagine being nagged about the same crap thousands of times per day…

(Note: That really was an earthshakingly original idea… so I’m not part of the 90% mentioned above…. right?)

Well, they have earned that vitriol over the past few years. If they can pull together and make DA3 the best game that has come out of their company, maybe they can pull themselves out of the tailspin, but you can’t screw up all of your IPs this badly and not expect hate.

Personally, those responsible for the narrative trash heap that is DA2 and ME3′s ending deserve the scorn, maybe it will spur them to not write such garbage.

Bioware is seriously lacking in quality communication skills. For SWTOR, they don’t respond to the player outcry for different types of game play and instead continue to chart out the same course for the game, only in Free-to-Play mode. MMO’s require much more communication between developers and players than other types of games, since the players perceive themselves as clients as opposed to one time customers. Bioware didn’t understand this going in and is now paying for it as the rage of the masses breaks through the metaphorical dam.