Bethesda.net, Bethesda's new forums REBOOT Options

[Renee]

Just a heads up, for those who don't know, but still participate over at Beth. They're going to be making new forums, and from what I'm hearing, a lot of things are going to get demolished. Usernames, post counts, stars .... all of that is going to be started over. Actually, here, I'll just let Gstaff explain ...

Hi

We’re still in kicking the tires on Bethesda.net, and are very excited about the progress we’re making on the forums. We believe you guys will be happy with the changes and new features they will offer.

There are a few things worth noting at this time:

1) Usernames and posts will not be ported over. We will give folks a heads up as we get closer to the forum launch date so you can ready for the transition and claim your preferred username.

2) We will not transition all of our forums over at once. We want to make sure we’re testing functionality on the forums and gathering feedback from folks like you.

3) As forums transition over to Bethesda.net we plan to archive the existing forums so that folks can reference back to old posts.

Moving is never easy – there will be adjustments and we hope that you’ll pardon the dust as we all get used to our new digs. Knowing the longstanding efforts, love and attention, and general awesomness I’ve seen from all of you, I expect bigger and better things for everyone on the Bethesda.net forums.

Much more to come!

Personally I could care less about my username, my post count, my stars, all of that stuff. I was worried I would lose all my old posts there, the stories, the good times, but apparently #3 takes care of that. They're supposed to archive the old forums, which means all our ("Our", assuming you participated over at Beth) posts are going to be okay, we just won't be able to participate in old threads. PMs are also not getting ported over, but those are easy to archive, of course.

So in essence, we're all getting the banhammer over at Beth. yuk yuk. It's all good though.

[Uleni Athram]

Couldn't care less, to be honest. The forums over there are too crowded for my liking and it's so easy to get into a foolish argument over the most minor of things with an uptight cockroach. I'd rather spend time in small communities where everyone knows everyone!

[Renee]

I hear what you're saying, it's not all bad there though. I like both environments, Beth and Chorrol. There are a lot of good people over at Beth's forums, and I like the fact that there's always somebody new showing up over there.

[Acadian]

Yikes! I remember the last time BethSoft made their forums 'new and improved' back in very early 2010. The result was a half dozen or so of us packed up our fan fics and moved here to chorrol. We were invited here by treydog and you can tell all of us 'treybabies' by our March 2010 join date.

Who knows? Perhaps it will go fine. . . like the more recent BethSoft/Steam foray into paid mods . . . oh. . . wait. Uh oh. I'm worried.

I think Uleni and Renee are both right. BethSoft forums are big and many members there are way too quick to start an argument just to argue. Otoh, there are plenty of dear friends there. I do post regularly there but currently only on the somewhat rough and tumble Skyrim forums.

[mirocu]

Sigh.


I´m not gonna move over. I will get a new join date and everything, my entire history, will be gone, I can´t have that. The new Bethesda official forum will have to make due without me.

[SubRosa]

I have not gone there in years. As Uleni pointed out, there are just too many trolls. But I am not going to say I will never go back. Sean Connery once said that about doing another Bond film. So naturally he ended up doing another Bond film...

[mirocu]

I think it sucks. Even though it´s not at all the same anymore I was kinda hoping to celebrate ten years in 2017.


Oh, well...

[Elisabeth Hollow]

Sounds like it's time to advertise hardcore and get new blood.

[mALX]

Yikes! I remember the last time BethSoft made their forums 'new and improved' back in very early 2010. The result was a half dozen or so of us packed up our fan fics and moved here to chorrol. We were invited here by treydog and you can tell all of us 'treybabies' by our March 2010 join date.

Who knows? Perhaps it will go fine. . . like the more recent BethSoft/Steam foray into paid mods . . . oh. . . wait. Uh oh. I'm worried.

I think Uleni and Renee are both right. BethSoft forums are big and many members there are way too quick to start an argument just to argue. Otoh, there are plenty of dear friends there. I do post regularly there but currently only on the somewhat rough and tumble Skyrim forums. s

I was remembering the same thing, this is exactly what drove us all here. And to take our profile names away? Why? How? Does this mean we are going to have to make all new profiles and give up all our longevity there?

This is worse than what they did before, this is Myspace kind of crap! We'll have to start calling Todd "Tom." Doesn't he know that loyal fans don't like being shoved off to make room for the new formats?

I had better write to Leydenne and Princess Stomper before the change, because afterward I might not be able to.

I have not gone there in years. As Uleni pointed out, there are just too many trolls. But I am not going to say I will never go back. Sean Connery once said that about doing another Bond film. So naturally he ended up doing another Bond film...

Same here, except to write to friends that are only there (like Leydenne and Princess Stomper).






This post has been edited by mALX: Aug 9 2015, 07:12 PM

[Uleni Athram]

Sounds like it's time to advertise hardcore and get new blood.

I'll help by supplying them with smutty fanfics regarding Ulfric and Tullius!

[mALX]

Sounds like it's time to advertise hardcore and get new blood.

I'll help by supplying them with smutty fanfics regarding Ulfric and Tullius!

And the evil antagonist is a power mad gnome named Todd Boward, any similarity between him and any real life person is purely coincidence ...

[Uleni Athram]

And the evil Todd Boward plans on marrying Ulfric against his will, because he's a jealous little gnome that can't grow an epic beard like Ulfric. Plus, he likes northern men and their "icicles."

I really gotta go to sleep now LOL

[mALX]

And the evil Todd Boward plans on marrying Ulfric against his will, because he's a jealous little gnome that can't grow an epic beard like Ulfric. Plus, he likes northern men and their "icicles."

I really gotta go to sleep now LOL

Todd Boward shoves the player into his secret catacombs where he is planning to turn into an incubus and suck the faces from all his prisoners so their remains will not be able to be identified ...

[Callidus Thorn]

Hmm, much like the existing Bethsoft forums, this thread is now subject to Skyrim-related derailment.

How very appropriate

[Uleni Athram]

Nope, not Skyrim; sanity-derailment is what I'm going for here.

[Callidus Thorn]

Then I fear that as yet you're falling short, having achieved merely topic derailment

[mirocu]

I have already begun to advertise this place to a bunch of people I know aren´t here

[Destri Melarg]

Another 'treybaby' here (thanks a lot, Acadian ). Lost my original name and password ages ago during one of the previous purges on the Bethsoft forums. Haven't been back since. Maybe I'll go back once the new forums are all up and running… then again, maybe I won't.

[ghastley]

I forsee a lot of issues if they don't let the established users claim their usernames for a period. Just matching the email addresses or something to confirm it's the same user. Otherwise there will be deliberate impersonation happening, something we've seen here.

[mirocu]

I forsee a lot of issues if they don't let the established users claim their usernames for a period. Just matching the email addresses or something to confirm it's the same user. Otherwise there will be deliberate impersonation happening, something we've seen here.

Yeah, an identity is an identity and I think it´s important to know that mirocu is still mirocu and not Acadian in disguise...