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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jgsugden" data-source="post: 8585459" data-attributes="member: 2629">You're playing connect the dots on a Jackson Pollock.  The reasoning posted for why they took down their forums was that their forums were not providing unique value and they could let others bear the cost of maintaining forums without losing any of the benefit of having them out there.Trevor Kidd, then of WotC said the following on Twitter:As we can see, their expressly said that the forum discussions were valuable - but why the %@$& should they foot the bill for them when Enworld did a better job and it didn't cost them a penny?  That contradicts the idea that they closed the forums and ran away from posting on them because they thought that the opinion expressed there was opposite the general fan.  Now, I expressly remember contradictions like poll results telling them that the majority of D&D players did not use feats, while the vast majority of message board based users did.  So there were contradictions - but they also talked a bit about how the situation was more complex than that simple discussion stated.  For example, there was discussion of how important the dedicated fans that visited the boards were as ambassadors of the game.  However, there was never a lick of evidence that I saw that indicated that the boards going away was due to a lack of respect for the value of the discussion expressed on them in terms of the general approach to the game of the general playing public.</blockquote>

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