| Actually, cutting the community forums was a great idea, since it became pretty much an echo chamber of people frustrated that Vanguard didn't conform to their vision, and you seem to be unhappy you cannot be on their boards bitching up a storm.
Negativity breeds negativity, and loudmouthed whiners will squash out any positive discussions.
One of my biggest complaints was that the only way of getting feedbacks to the developers during beta was through batphone usage, since any constructive thread about a specific aspect of the game got hijacked by whiners who tried to use it as a soapbox to whine about general unhappyness.
I don't think the problem at any point was the game, I think that just due to the initial early advertisement and a poor choice of selection of beta-players, the people who were the loudest fanboys of Vanguard were absolutely atrocious at giving out useful feedback. | 