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by Gregg Reece 
Oct 27th 2010 at 3:00PM
The announcement came out this morning on the EU forums that Blizzard is getting ready to roll out its new community website and forums for World of Warcraft some time in early November. Anyone who has been to the community site for StarCraft 2 will already be aware of some of the new features including a more advanced forum system than what we have now. Features will include the ability to report a post for trolling or spam without changing pages, being able to see a quick summary of the thread by mousing over and letting players up- and down-rate responses.
The current forums will be set as locked during the beginning of the transition and then will be completely removed toward the end. This means that if there are any old guides, posts or fun things from days of old that you want to see moved to the new forums, you should copy them to your own computer now.
One thing that is curiously missing from the announcement is what alternative Blizzard has developed to its original Real ID forums concept since it was thrown out. StarCraft 2 has a centralized handle that is associated with your Battle.net login, and it is the same handle/avatar that's used for multiplayer games. Hopefully, they'll provide more details on issues like this as things start to lead up to the changeover.
The full blue post is after the break.
The current forums will be set as locked during the beginning of the transition and then will be completely removed toward the end. This means that if there are any old guides, posts or fun things from days of old that you want to see moved to the new forums, you should copy them to your own computer now.
One thing that is curiously missing from the announcement is what alternative Blizzard has developed to its original Real ID forums concept since it was thrown out. StarCraft 2 has a centralized handle that is associated with your Battle.net login, and it is the same handle/avatar that's used for multiplayer games. Hopefully, they'll provide more details on issues like this as things start to lead up to the changeover.
The full blue post is after the break.
TakralusAzeroth isn't the only landscape that's changing. In preparation for the upcoming launch of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, we'll soon be releasing our new World of Warcraft community site which will provide players with a host of new features including blog posts, a robust game guide, and brand-new forums! If you want an idea of how this new site will look and operate, head on over to our StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty community site (http://eu.battle.net/sc2/en/).
We currently plan to launch a live preview version of the new World of Warcraft community site sometime in early November, and will begin to transition over to the new forum system at that time. To make this transition as smooth as possible, we want to provide a tentative timeline for how we'll be phasing posting access from these forums (the ones on which you're currently posting) to the new forums.
We currently plan to launch a live preview version of the new World of Warcraft community site sometime in early November, and will begin to transition over to the new forum system at that time. To make this transition as smooth as possible, we want to provide a tentative timeline for how we'll be phasing posting access from these forums (the ones on which you're currently posting) to the new forums.
- For approximately two weeks after the preview site is released, both sets of forums will be open for posting. The requirements for posting on the new forums will be the same as posting here: you will need an active World of Warcraft account that's in good standing and a compatible browser.
- Following the initial testing phase of the new community site, all forums located at http://forums.wow-europe.com will be marked as Read Only. While you will still be able to access these forums, you will no longer be able to create new posts or edit existing ones.
(The World of Warcraft: Cataclysm beta forums will remain available for posting until further notice. In order to post on the beta forums, you will need to possess a World of Warcraft: Cataclysm beta account.)
- The current forum system will be completely removed sometime in November to complete the transition to the new community site. All forum communication at that time, excluding that conducted on the World of Warcraft: Cataclysm beta forums, will move to the new forums.
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Reader Comments (Page 2 of 2)
Koleckai Oct 27th 2010 3:30PM
We'll see how it is in operation. The Starcraft II community looks like several steps backward in community design. Maybe it is just the graphics but I wasn't impressed.
Siaperas Oct 27th 2010 3:37PM
I was actually very impressed with the Starcraft 2 website and forums when they first launched, and this was a change I had a feeling would be coming. Comparatively, if you go over to the website, there seems to be less "clutter" on the community site. Part of that is because WoW is a very large game with a lot of information, but the Star 2 site and forums are just easier to navigate for me. I would recommend if you haven't bounced over to that website to play around that you do.
Dezaris Oct 27th 2010 3:58PM
Shame, I love the current forum design =(
Oh well maybe I'll love the new one more
Dude Oct 27th 2010 4:02PM
If it uses RealID as the name attached to posts then I'll stick to unofficial forums and adieu official forums.
pedge Oct 27th 2010 4:07PM
Pokkets hit it right on the money, plus the current look is so damned 2004. Are the going to revive the Tseric posts by any chance? ;)
RogueJedi86 Oct 27th 2010 4:07PM
In before "the new community website is wow.com"?
Josin Oct 27th 2010 4:11PM
That'd be hilarious.
Sterb Oct 27th 2010 4:13PM
You haven't visited wow.com recently, have you? It's going to be a Groupon clone.
Annoyed Oct 27th 2010 5:07PM
The corporate minions that owned WoW.com sold out. Which is why you must take every blog post here with a grain of salt. There are larger forces at work here! Which is why I get a kick out of part of the title that says "analysis." They will analyze, in a way that is acceptable to the corporate overlords.
Josin Oct 27th 2010 4:10PM
There was another thread that spawned, and people were going on about conspiracy theories on Blizzard's silence (nevermind that it wasn't yet 8am on the West Coast, when the mods clock in.) I laughed at them with "PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN!"
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Ez Oct 27th 2010 5:09PM
Definitely a subscribe option would be nice. it is kind of hard on the current system to check for replies. Or at least a Moderator reply could be subscribed to. And a bookmark system to find my own posts.
chris Oct 28th 2010 10:23PM
being able to vote comments up and down! yay. goodbye troll threads/comments.
now, if they would just implement a 1 name only, like sc2. we would be all set.