A lot of the evidence for WG’s past miscommunications and wrongdoings are on those forums and are just going to get deleted because of this shutdown. It’s pretty clear that WG not only doesn’t want the World of Warships community to respond to this sudden decision of theirs, but they also want to severely limit the community’s ability to archive anything that can be used as evidence against them. In fact, there’s almost certainly a large proportion of the player base that missed out on posting their final messages to said forums because of how little time WG allowed for it.Ĭombined with the 3 months WG gave to archive everything, you begin to see a disturbing pattern here. 3 days is not enough time for anyone to make anything more than initial comments and reaction to it.

The second red flag is how little time WG gave between that announcement and the removal of any ability to make posts on said World of Warships forums. It’s almost like they wanted to shut down the forums with absolutely no warning or protest until it was too late. WG didn’t even so much as make a peep about this before they just suddenly sprang that announcement to the game’s community. You would think something as big as the official World of Warships forums being shut down would get at least some warning to the player base beforehand, right? But no. The first red flag for this latest decision by WG is the fact that there was no warning about this. Red Flags All Over the Place AKA: Everything Wrong with Wargaming. This is important for what I’m about to argue next. WG gave all World of Warships forum users 3 days to react to the shutdown, and 3 months to archive everything. You can still read the posts on the forums until Octoat which point, WG will shut down the servers for the forums entirely.

Any attempts to do so will take you to a password request page in which you cannot type anything. You can even check for yourself on those official forums. The shutdown would begin 3 days later on Jwhen WG removed all ability for users to post posts. Wargaming (WG) announced both on the official World of Warships website and on the official forums that they were shutting down said official forums on July 25, 2023. World of Warships Forums Shutdown: The What A deceptively peaceful scene for such a radical folly.

The World of Warships forums