It looks like the petition is spreading to more forums, showing how valuable of a resource this platform is for players everywhere.
Netherlands:
https://nl.forum.elvenar.com/index.php?threads/ons-forum-moet-blijven.10887/
There are threads on almost every Elvenar forum discussing what a bad idea it is to solely use Discord.
I'll say that having the 22 (!) forums there currently are for Elvenar is probably too many to keep, moving forward.
Some of those forums have almost no discussions going. Others are fully active.
Keeping Community managers, co-cms, forum mods and game mods is excessive for so many language servers.
That
does not justify moving everyone to Discord, however.
The better move would have been to minimize the amount of open forums.
English and German forums are logical to keep for this game.
It's a mainly English language game made in Germany. (
Not to dismiss any other language. I just mean that Elvenar ads and promotions are all in English)
It's very commendable that Elvenar was willing to have so many forums, representing each language the game carries for each server.
However, if that is proving to be too cumbersome for the company, why not condense the forums down to just a few while also giving every customer access to Discord and every language server over there? That would be a win for all parties.
I hope tensions between Elvenar staff and players eases over time. The German forum in particular seems to really be suffering with communications, lack of kindness and lack of de-escalations from everyone lately.
I admit to being a little too harsh with new staff and seeing the bad attitudes over the last year made me bitter. But being nasty without productive discussion gets us all nowhere.
I'd like to see us all working together moving forward to keep this game healthy and thriving.
Keeping these forums is crucial to allowing that to happen.