What about the Forums keeps you active?

Hello. This is a thread where I want to ask you (yes, YOU) about what makes the Wynn forums that special place where you keep coming back to.

This almost goes of a self-introduction that I never wrote; I'm Texas (and ironically, not from the States), not all that much of a gamer really. I used to play a little bit of Wynncraft in 2014-2015 when my parents got my brother Minecraft and I ended up playing in his account from time to time. I had a friend at the time introduce me to the server, which was more of a "I play this server in Minecraft" and me going "Oh cool my brother has Minecraft I'll ask him to try it out."
However that was 2014 and that was a long time ago. Since then things like the Microsoft account migration happened and I'm quite sure that my brother, who long since moved on from video games, never migrated the account, and neither did I. Quite frankly I don't even remember the specific username nor even know the logins.

Fast forward to 2024, through an unrelated conversation I rediscovered Wynncraft and had bought a new account after discovering Microsoft's account migration stealing the old one. Joined back last summer, played for a month or so, dropped it for a bit due work and now recently I've reignited my interest to the server.

Now finally to the topic if the thread; why am I in the forums?

I'm not quite an enjoyer of Discord, sure I have it but it's not my thing.
Discussions in Discord are too fast, often seem to revolve around meta and strategies of the game which I'm frankly not super knowledgeable or interested in, and in general the pace of discussion feels like if you go out for 5 minutes you're entirely lost.

I like forums like this for how engaging in conversation works opposed to Discord in general (not limited to Wynncraft) and that the real activity required to staying on the loop being considerably less than it is in Discord.

Furthermore I created my forums account now instead of 8 months ago as I'm reaching the point of my playthrough where I feel like starting looking for a guild. However most of the guilds actively recruiting players seem not-so-quite for me.
I'm not really looking for any benefits that being in a guild has inside the game, rather some people I can always party up with and do whatever with when I happen to be on the server.
Mostly my relative non-knowledge of the metas and activity requirements of most guilds are putting me off.
What I want from a guild is low-to-no obligations while I don't exactly care if the guild itself is that active or not.
That is more of a thing to put into the Guilds section, but it is directly related to why I even have a forums account and I'll probably get to it later. Have had my eyes on RES for a few days but I'm still a bit undecided if I want to join that guild specifically or weight my options.

For now, I'm surfing the forums, having a good time reading any interesting threads that pop up, and playing Wynncraft when I have the time.

I hope this thread catches at least some replies to read and reply to on my breaks at work today or after.
Further if anyone here has a guild as described that would like a weekends-mostly active member I'd appreciate a word.

If you read this far, thanks.
I wish you have a great day!

 

the fact that it's slowly dying

 

im used to forums and i dont like discord

 

This is just so unfortunate, but at the same time understandable given just how popular Discord is. Not only is it popular but I also believe newer/younger players might not have that much of a desire to use the forums to begin with. Most people will already have a discord account and it will be a familar platform to them. We're getting to a point where when I ask someone outside the forums (and outside Wynn) if they've used forums in the past, the answer is no more often.

 

i will be the last person on the forums and i will still be posting on it

 

I'm a younger individual, at least below [[legal]]. I joined the Forums recently because I don't wanna join a Discord server, cause I don't trust them, and because I've been an artist for a good bit and have wanted to be able to post stuff for a while.
I don't see why people want to use Discord either, it seems much closer to a private messaging software than something like the Forums. Its features are more built towards people who are actually close and want to stay in contact, friend groups who want to organize stuff, etc. The Forums are built with a more open, pop in and say your piece type of thing.
...I've also just been playing Wynncraft semi-consistently for a long time, and wanted to get closer to the community.

 

This is a good take and you're absolutely right!
Discord's core idea is different from the forums, but Discord is also massively popular especially around gamers and will thus attract the average new player way easier than the forums.
It's unfortunate because I believe there could potentially be space for both, but in the long run Discord will be the primary reason that forums will die.