Guild Wars 2

Why was these sub-forums removed?

If you don’t remember or haven’t been here around that long, it was basically sub-forums for each race:
- Human
- Charr
- Norn
- Asura
- Sylvari

I so enjoyed them so much years ago, as you can find useful armorstyle or some lore behind the races. Storylines from Vanilla etc..

Yes I know we have a sub-forum called ‘’Lore’’ but I want the old Racial subs.

Here’s why: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Forum-Reorganization/first#post4600078

Good luck.

As they said

Starting December 9, the conversation and topic threads that make up our sub-forums are going to be streamlined. This will facilitate greater interaction between you and ArenaNet team members. It also will improve our ability to respond to any reported (flagged) posts and threads.

Alga.6498:

Yes I know we have a sub-forum called ‘’Lore’’ but I want the old Racial subs.

I don’t understand why 6 forums is better than one. Can you clarify?

The forums are pretty slow as it is, no need to add anything right now.

Jahromi.2079:

The forums are pretty slow as it is, no need to add anything right now.

They are slow, now. Coincidentally (or not) there were more people posting when they weren’t so streamlined and there were specialty forums where enthusiasts could find each other and hold conversations without the thread slipping off the first page after a day or so. Remember the old Trading post forum where people would have long, involved conversations with Mr Smith posting there now and then? Gone with the forum restructuring.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Alga.6498:

Yes I know we have a sub-forum called ‘’Lore’’ but I want the old Racial subs.

I don’t understand why 6 forums is better than one. Can you clarify?

Because 1 forum covering 6 things when you only care about 1 of those things makes the forum 80% useless.

The Charr, Norn, and Asura forums were really fun (Especially the Charr forums. But then again, I’m a charr enthusiast, and I loved the cross-racial arguments that popped up on whether Norn or Charr were stronger in a fight, and the constant Human/Charr bickering. There was at least one forum member who could not get over the fact that the Charr and Humans are no longer enemies.)

Thanks for taking the time to explain.

I still disagree — I think that splitting up the lore aficionados dilutes the value of the lore-related forums. And as Jafw said, the forums aren’t nearly as active these days.

Honestly, I think they just got tired of seeing all of our posts about wanting female armor variants for Charr and Asura… Still hoping they will do something about this… I’ve been extremely disappointed in the legendary armors for this very reason, it’s almost impossible to tell the difference between a male or a female Asura or Charr wearing the full sets…

Sartharina.3542:

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Alga.6498:

Yes I know we have a sub-forum called ‘’Lore’’ but I want the old Racial subs.

I don’t understand why 6 forums is better than one. Can you clarify?

Because 1 forum covering 6 things when you only care about 1 of those things makes the forum 80% useless.

The Charr, Norn, and Asura forums were really fun (Especially the Charr forums. But then again, I’m a charr enthusiast, and I loved the cross-racial arguments that popped up on whether Norn or Charr were stronger in a fight, and the constant Human/Charr bickering. There was at least one forum member who could not get over the fact that the Charr and Humans are no longer enemies.)

Excelsior.

Humans and Charr are not enemies anymore, but neither friends. And some dead human here and there that provoked some Charr might still happen..

I had the archived Asura forums open on my tablet and I just use my Surface to read when in bed early. It took me several weeks (not reading every day though) to get trough the Asura forums. To me, it felt like a good place to dive deep into this. Many franchises like StarWars, StarTrek, StarGate (StarWhatever…), Simpsons etc. are basically just movies and TV shows, but their dedicated community expand the universe so much not even the writers could think of.

As a hardcore Asura fan, or just short Asuracist, these threads were really, really good and pulled me into this world. If I check for example the artificial lore of FF14 and their “races”, I really can feel the lack of.. everything there.

Asura (and a little Charr, believe it or not but I also like the cats a bit, and that’s an achievment for a guy that plays only midgets in every MMO since 7 years) have a great lore and aNet even admitted they have/had fun writing and creating around those arrogant munchkins in several posts and interviews.

When that “I’ve been at Rata Sum” thread arose I was kinda happy to unleash my favor for the Asura, but then, it’s just a little thread after all….. shrugs