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In a very sad announcement, Sony has revealed they are closing down their official PlayStation Forums. Leaving no solid way to get PlayStation help from fellow players.
The PlayStation Forums Are Closing Down
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This is surprising and sad that Sony will close their Playstation forum.
I wonder if Sony is closing their forum because of money problems since running a huge website can be very expensive like how Yahoo and Aol had to sell itself to Verizon because of money problems.
I wonder if Sony is closing their forum because of money problems since running a huge website can be very expensive like how Yahoo and Aol had to sell itself to Verizon because of money problems.
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Huh, never knew they had one.
Hosting a rather large site is expensive in hosting fees alone. Plus I'm sure they had to pay for their admin/mod staff.
Be awesome if we could direct the traffic over to here.
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I feel more Sony Playstation gamers now use Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube for talking about Playstation, so Sony may of decided to close down its forum because of less new members per month, and less activity from old members.
The expense of running a forum may not be worth it for Sony if fewer people are using the forum these days.
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Hosting fees for such huge company means noting to them, and I am sure they can find volunteers to run the forums.
I guess they have some other reasons for closing the forums, perhaps what
froggyboy604 suggested.
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It's still a cost eating the bottom line though and these days it seems Sony is looking to cut costs to endure the launch of the PS5.
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Sony probably can keep forum up by raising the price of PSN Plus a dollars per user to help pay for the forum, and not lose money. Some users may feel paying an extra dollar maybe worth it for being able to post on the forum, so users may cause more people to subscribe to PSN.
I think spammers, trolls, and other unwanted user bahavior like racist users posting bullying posts may of cause Sony to shutdown the forum because hateful posts can make the Playstation brand look unfriendly to less tech savvy families and kids who may feel it is a Sony workers who is posting unfriendly posts on the forum rather than a member of Playstaion forum.
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that's a shame, but poor admining will do that.
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I feel a lot of Playstation members may of created their own fanmade Playstation and video game forum, blogs, and websites which may cause users to not spend as much time on the official Playstation forum which may not be as fun, or useful than fanmade forums dedicated to Playstation and video games sort of like how a lot of people go visit gaming blogs to read reviews instead of going on the official game site to see if a game is good or not.
Yeah, looks like after changing the software, they slowly started removing more and more features.