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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JohnLynch" data-source="post: 7681218" data-attributes="member: 6749563">That would make sense, except they're keeping the website. And if WotC are truly so worried about the bottom dollar that the meager savings they make by deleting the content instead of marking it as read only (and to be honest, I doubt there are any actual savings) then I truly wonder how much of a success 5th edition truly was. Now given I do believe it was a success, I do not think they did this in an effort to save costs.Directing energy and resources to social media  in place of discussion forums makes sense. I do not know any tangible  resources that can actually be directed to social media as a result of  having deleted (instead of marking as read only) the discussion forums. As you said, we're talking pennies here, so this reasoning is actually not valid when discussing why would WotC choose to delete the forums (it is valid for the question of why would WotC not want to continue having the forums active).WotC would  have likely not liked the answers they would have received from such a  survey so it makes perfect sense not to make the survey. They can  probably guess that most people would advocate for a read only forum  (it's also easy to do. Remove the login, register and forgot my password  links) and clearly they didn't want to do that.</blockquote>