Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Forums

Do you read your realm forums? Simple question, eh? Personally, I build certain I at least take a look at my realm forums once a day, even whether I don’t post.

Admittedly, realm forums are quite often just a pile of drama. Who cybered who, who ninja’d from who, who ganked who. Blah blah blah. Hidden behind all of that, though, there is usually a lot of helpful knowledge. Patch note discussions, recruitment notices, possibly even server progression lists or charts of who on the server has rare crafting recipes.

I’ve been amazed a few times by society that desperately search for raiding guilds to join on the server, but have not once looked at the official realm boards to see who is even recruiting. Plus, as an officer in a raiding guild, it’s just a little bothersome to find out there are so many citizens that may have been interested in that open spot you had for two months, you just had no way to reach them or know about them.

I’ve been under the impression that most society who play more than a few hours a week read their realm boards, but I’m not so certain that’s the case. That would be a lot of people, when you think about it. So what about you guys? Do you read? Do you post?

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Original post by Alex Ziebart