Nintendo shuts down its forums

[Doctor Setebos]

Who needs a official community discussion area where people can go to laboriously heap praise upon your products and services? Evidently, not Nintendo. They've done away with their forums while they work on an overhaul of the official Nintendo.com site, and there appears to be no guarantee they will return. But don't worry, Nintendo's got you covered:

For more than four years, these NSider Forums have fostered engaging, robust debates, a strong community and friendships. While their future remains uncertain, in the interim we invite our fans to build on the spirit of community by starting their own Nintendo discussion sites.

Aren't there already enough half-baked Nintendo fan sites out there as it is?

[Dr.Finger]

You know, for a company that does so many smart things, they make some strange decisions, too.

[Gorvi]

That makes no sense. Why would the almost intentionally splinter the online community like that? Is it really that hard for them to maintain their forums?

[Telefrog]

GameFAQs and NeoGaf are going to get flooded.

[Ph00p]

The mods are VERY lax on there if anything they need better mods. The word filter is pretty god damn gay too.

[Goronmon]

Originally Posted by Ph00p

The word filter is pretty god damn gay too.

The word filter prefers sex with male word filters? That's interesting...

Meh, I've never felt Nintendo had the greatest community as a whole. Certain games definitely stood out, but in general the huge Nintendo fans were always annoying to me.

[Yellowman]

Originally Posted by Goronmon

Meh, I've never felt Nintendo had the greatest community as a whole. Certain games definitely stood out, but in general the huge Nintendo fans were always annoying to me.

Well thank god there aren't any of those Nintendo fans here...

[Gorvi]

Originally Posted by Yellowman

Well thank god there aren't any of those Nintendo fans here...

I know! I mean really, we know they're all under the age of 15 anyway. They probably can't get on the computers in their school libraries.

[Bravado]

Well, we all know that casual gamers don't use forums.

/doomandgloom

[H1PO]

Originally Posted by Gorvi

I know! I mean really, we know they're all under the age of 15 anyway. They probably can't get on the computers in their school libraries.

Half my post last year were made form the school library thank you very much!

But yeah, I used to be a member, back when I was a complete nintendo fanboy. One of my friends came to me today complaining about this.

[Yellowman]

Originally Posted by H1PO

...back when I was a complete nintendo fanboy...

So you aren't one anymore? Cause we at the NDF don't take treason lightly...

[Roc Ingersol]

meh. official discussion boards are a complete waste anyway.

actual discussions are better suited to fan boards and actual communication is done best anywhere other than a forum.

[zyzyx]

This is awful news. The Nintendo forums were a fucking internet cesspit.

Unfortunately, it's denizens are now going to be headed elsewhere. Here doesn't appear on the search results but avforums does. gulp.

[ezzkmo]

As long as Gamefaqs doesn't shut down, with only a message saying to migrate to Evil Avatar, I'm good.
*shudder*

[Skyelan]

Originally Posted by ezzkmo

As long as Gamefaqs doesn't shut down, with only a message saying to migrate to Evil Avatar, I'm good.
*shudder*

Just imagine. First the Nintendo forums go down, then they all flood to GameFAQs... Then GameFAQs goes down. And the only place left to go is everywhere else.

When the asstard apacolypse rains down, I'd be perfectly happy to keep myself an orange if it's the only way to post. Needing to pay tends to deter the hellspawn.

[Doctor Setebos]

Let us have a moment of silence for the Nintendo forums, and I ask that everyone pray diligently for the forums that will become the eventual new home of these errant vagabonds.

May God have mercy on their souls.

[Spooker22]

Ahh...why the long faces everybody??? It's a stupid move and if they can't see that...oh well we'll just move somewhere else.

[Skyelan]

Originally Posted by Spooker22

Ahh...why the long faces everybody???

oh well we'll just move somewhere else.

You answered your own question, mate.

[Chainblast]

Originally Posted by Gorvi

I know! I mean really, we know they're all under the age of 15 anyway. They probably can't get on the computers in their school libraries.

*laughs*
No doubt.

[Sl1pstream]

Maybe they're working on new forums. They did say they were serious about online. For all we know they could be implementing a friend code system into their website.