Topic: Forum Reorganisation

Hey everyone,

It's been a while since we keep any housekeeping here on the Nintendo Life forums so this is long overdue.

We've collapsed the separate Wii U, 3DS and Wii sub-forums into their own one-off forums (removing the eShop / Virtual Console ones). Everything is still tagged up as per those old forums and you'll see some 'Useful Tags' at the top of each of those forums. No threads have been lost.

We've also renamed and moved a couple of other forums around: 'Announcements' is now in an 'About Nintendo Life' section with the Feedback and Suggestions forum. 'News', 'Online Gaming' and 'Help & Troubleshooting' are now in the main 'Nintendo Gaming' category.

Finally, we've added a 'Game Developers' forum. For quite a while we've been asked by developers to allow them to post requesting feedback for their games, now they can, once their account has been verified by us.

We're also considering auto-archiving off old threads (still accessible, just only via search) from the forum lists to keep things a little neater.

That's all for now!

@antdickens About the game developers forum, you said once there account is verified, I thought it would be cool if they got a different color star, kinda like the mods on this site, is that going to be a thing? probably not because your just talking about the forums here.

Thank you for the change, your hard work will not be wasted.

@Snatcher yes, verified accounts will get a little tick next to their name (ala Twitter), eg: https://www.nintendolife.com/forums/game-developers/moonbound...

@antdickens YESSS, thank you! I always thought that would be cool! this is great. Now whenever a dev show up, I know for a fact.

@antdickens Oh, wow. So, is Tenzen1978 the first verified developer account? Very interesting. Thanks for the update.

@WoomyNNYes there have been others before, naturally, but the first using the new system.

@antdickens Just to ask we are talking only about game developers with published games on Nintendo platforms? Fan stuff like my game is not verified, right?

@Zuljaras they will need at least one published game on Nintendo eShop, PlayStation Store or Xbox Store.

Slightly suspicious that the two replies to the only Game Developer post so far are from accounts that (1) were created that day, (2) haven’t posted on anything else since and (3) are unreservedly praising the game.

Would be good now there is an organised place for this to get some proper impartial discourse with the developers!

Awesome, these forums were certainly feeling a bit cluttered.

And the new developer verification system will certainly help.

So when can we expect Sakura, Miyamoto and Bobby Kotick to show up?

@jump it’ll probably be more like… John, Jack, and Brian, the indie devs that I just made up!

@Eel Have you at least tried sending them an invite? A nicely written letter from you personally could entice them here, maybe send the letter with some flowers or a box of chocolates too.

@BongoBongo all the data points we have about those users suggest they aren't connected to the OP, so we have to take it at face value, it was looked into at the time too.

@jump You think to small, When is Doug Bowser going to show up?

@Snatcher He's not and has never been a developer though, the mods will have to ban him if he tried creating an account. That's abit unfair but it's the mod's rules and not mine.

Remember that time when we bullied Hideo Kojima away from the site.

And by we I mean I.

@Eel funny