Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Forum issues

There has been a total meltdown of the forum on Thursday 3rd.

For a good 24h at least, attempts to load the forum would yield an "account suspended" error page. That in itself is pretty poor : if there's an issue with a computer system, you'd like the system to at least produce accurate error messages (if your car is out of cooling liquid and says the battery is down ... that won't help you fix it). Most importantly though, the big bummer is that the forum just went down. On release day. Perhaps because of release day and the increased traffic.

Now, during that time period where the forum was mostly down, I managed to catch glimpses of a new forum structure, with 4 new sections : "Story & Character Discussion", "Build Discussion", "Multiplayer Discussion", and "Modding". I also noticed that there was a ton of new posts that I wanted to catch up with.

On Friday evening (European time), the forum came back. In its old structure, without the 4 new sections. And it was slow, with the usual "connection time out" messages that we all know and love. Now the speed is better.

However, the ton of posts that were posted on Thursday are all gone. And most of them were not in the new (and now gone) sections, but in "General" and "Suggestions & Feedback".


It would be real great to have an official communication from Larian about this. Not necessarily a solution, but least a message explaining that there's an issue, perhaps detailing what the issue is, saying that they're working on it, etc. You know, something to make it sound like they care about us forum users.

It would also be super great to have the currently-gone messages brought back to life when the forum is brought back to the evolved form it was in on Thursday. It wouldn't be great to have hundreds of posts gone forever, in the eternal void of oopsie.

I thought I got banned for posing a question on the third. I didn't see it as a spoiler. Multiple people on the steam forums were having the same issue. Yea does seem a little curious. I would still like to know how to turn off the annoying "pop up" description of the enemies attack. Ive looked everywhere, I sure hope there will be a patch to turn that off,

I thought I got banned for posing a question on the third. I didn't see it as a spoiler. Multiple people on the steam forums were having the same issue. Yea does seem a little curious. I would still like to know how to turn off the annoying "pop up" description of the enemies attack. Ive looked everywhere, I sure hope there will be a patch to turn that off,

It seems like we got some more than week older version back up ...
I cant see my old responces in various topics.

Yes I had to turn to the Steam forum for the first time because I also thought I was banned. What else should you think when something like that is slapped in your face:



I guess Larian needs to "gather" their forum stability skills before we can "venture forth" with more sub-forums and postings.

I thought I got suspended for the "Is Gale ... [Spoilers]" thread and then couldn't login until now because of a mysterious administrative reason. "Only visible to mods". Maybe I was? How do you tell? It's not locked, though...

I promise I didn't go on an account suspending spree

The problems were with UBB, the company that provides the forums, but last I heard Larian and they were still trying to work out exactly what had gone wrong and indeed what was done to fix it. Hopefully we'll get some clarity on Monday. It's interesting that some content has gone missing. I'll make sure that's passed on.

It's nice to have the forum back again ??

Good to be back again.

Me too, I didn't mind it however I was curious about why I was suspended, turns out it was an error and I wasn't banned for no reason, like you see the suspended message and immediately go "what did I do to get suspended?"

Also a suspension isn't something I need to worry about I have about 7 or more emails, technically I'm harder to remove than a Mindflayer Tadpole.