State of Bungie Forums (Destiny)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Wednesday, February 07, 2018, 17:31 (2263 days ago) @ Korny

Looks like the change to DBO was completely benign in comparison to what is happening at bnet:

https://www.bungie.net/en/Forums/Post/242827681?sort=0&page=0

Several forums are now restricted to those with Destiny accounts, and some to people who have gotten to the farm on Des2ny.

So if you haven’t made it to the farm on Des2ny, you are locked out of the ‘gaming’ and ‘off topic’ forums. This makes sense for the ‘feedback’ forum, partial sense for the ‘Destiny 2’ forum, but no sense at all for gaming and off topic. What am I missing?

Probably the same philosophy behind the Follow-lockout of Twitch channels, which implemented a "minimum follow time" before you could participate in the chat. What did that do for Twitch? According to them:

1. Moderator actions sharply decreased. Less toxic chat!

2. Follows went way up.

3. No measurable change in viewership.

So yeah, it helps cut down on rampant toxicity on any of their pages, which they're completely entitled to, since it is their own forum. The "off-topic" forum must have been especially toxic, but they'll likely reverse this specific decision down the road.

Just sounds like they're trying to cut down on the "Fake Amazon Review" nature of the forums due to Destiny 2 being a letdown for most of the vocal community, though people who don't own the game can simply download the trial and make it to the farm, which will boost registered user numbers quite a bit (and honestly, I think that latter part is one of Bungie's goals).

It’s just kind of unfortunate measures are being taken everywhere because of toxicity. I hope we can all be super stoked as a whole once again.