There is a popular Eq2 forum site that formed up and ended up having a larger following than the official boards. It was made because players were sick of being censored on official boards and restrained. So soon enough a player sponsored forum came up where people could pretty much speak without restraint and curse like a sailor for all anyone cared. As I said, the site got such a big following the devs themselves started getting involved with the site and communicating. Then one day a disgruntled player outted all the devs he knew who played characters in game/their characters/their guilds after finding out a dev in a top end guild was emailing other devs back and forth to get detailed multi-page length strats/explanations of unkilled raid mobs. After that SoE boards pretty much made an official statement that the devs and such were no longer to make contact with the site and the site could no longer be linked on their official boards. Funny thing was, sometimes when the devs quit or got laid off, since they were no longer owned by SoE, they would come to the board and spill all sorts of beans about how crappy SoE was. In the end players started going there because the resources for information were better, better players were around, and the communication was more blunt and uncensored. More important game impacting discussions happened there than the official boards.
It could happen with Rift.


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