"Other Games" Slight Forum Restructure Dec. 29th

I hope this is still the appropriate place to post feedback on your restructuring of the "Other Games" section.

I was on-board with your first breaking up of the section into sub-forums by developer, thinking that it'd help keeping threads for specific games relevant - and on the front page of their new homes. Now that you have started merging developers though, I cannot help but feel that it creates unnecessary and arbitrary fragmentation, instead of fostering discussions; for example, nowadays I just glance over the main section, see my thread of choice on top of its subforum and with no new posts, and never bother opening any of the subforums. While this might save me time, it also means I am potentially not seeing threads that would be of interest to me, and that might keep me reading and creating content here, instead of moving on to other sites.

(And to the slanderous posts slung towards DE and Warframe, I reply indignantly: we do not create much discussion here, because we are too busy farming items in-game and browsing the wiki in order to understand poorly-explained-yet-vital mechanics ...all 6 of us! actually I agree, there does not seem to be too much interest in the game at the moment here, certainly not enough to justify it having its own sub-forum ).

In the spirit of constructive criticism, I offer two half-baked alternatives for discussion:

This is not a general gaming forums, but one already oriented to a few specific game genres. Why not use that information as guideline for the "Other Games" structure? You could e.g. go with four subforums: sci-fi 1st/3rd person RPG/shooter (halo, fallout, doom, ...), fantasy RPG (the witcher, elder scrolls, ...), online multiplayer shooters (overwatch, destiny, warframe, ...), other games. You then have a structure that somewhat mirrors the games/series that draw users here, and which might help said users find and discuss other, similar games to what they play.

Alternatively, just dispense with the whole sub-forum structure, but ask posters to create and maintain a specific thread for each popular game: write a well put-together and informative first post, keep it updated as necessary, be at hand to offer answers to new players, ... Allow other threads as long as they remain short (question-and-answer type of threads), but merge them with the bigger thread if they start spinning off. Threads live and die based on how much interest they garner, and users are exposed to what is popular with other forumites - which again might help fostering interest, and might keep posters (more) engaged. Most of the really popular threads seem to be about gaming in general, so there could be a concern that those would fill the front page and drown game threads, but there's a few ways to go about it: create one specific subforum for that kind of discussion, or make sure there is no overlap between general threads and prune as necessary, or just wait and see - again, posters' activity decides what stays relevant; you are simply (attempting to) streamline the subforum, making game threads easier to find.

And those are my 2 cents. Especially in this lull among BioWare releases, I find the "Other Games" section has the potential to become the home of many users, and giving it a sleek and informative structure would go a long way in keeping folks hanging around the campfires here, while we wait for BioWare to reveal/publish new content