The future of FFXIV forums

[Laughlyn]

Clean it out, make a really fresh start.

[Duelle]

Regarding Advanced Level Forums:
We received some feedback requesting to have some sections of the FFXIV forums restricted to only allow players over a specific level. We just wanted to let you know that we do not have any plans to place any limitations such as this because we want new players to be able to ask questions, and provide feedback, which can be useful for new subscribers as well.

This is a fairly pointless restriction, so I'm glad you have no plans to implement this. I kind of get why they would ask for this: to prevent people with lv1 alts from trolling threads and so on. Of course, that can't really work here due to our using aliases rather than our character names to post on the forums.

Clean it out, make a really fresh start.

This.

Though I would appreciate advance notice so that I can store/cache/whatever the important stuff like the RDM Design thread as well as the vanity slots thread.

PS: I'd like PM's and the ability to put links in our signatures to become available to us once 2.0 hits. That way I don't have to rely on tiny url or shamelessly linking stuff like this to get a point across.

[Kraggy]

Clean it out, make a really fresh start.

Depends on whether SE keep the V1 servers running after V2's release, as they're currently considering doing.

If V1 closes down then these forums really aren't useful any more except for nostalgia (which I'm not knocking, it's fine to look back) so some form of freezing/archiving would be best if it can be done I think.

However, if V1 still lives post-V2 then these forums would provide somewhere for players to chat on: of course, with no expected SE involvement beyond moderation of content.