Sounds like EA is doubling down on live service games, Star Wars and sports. Not surprising, the industry has been moving away from the big AAA single player game culture for a long time. That might end up being an era that was linited to Millennials.

Gen Z really is the saddest generation.

Where did you read that it would be discontinued?

Go back and re-read my comment. Slowly. I am not talking about account karma.

Also, karma doesn’t mean anything here.

Yes it does. You seem to be focusing purely on the account restrictions and hidden comments that mass downvotes incur on reddit. I’m talking much more broadly about how points systems influence behaviour. People subconsciously make decisions about whether to engage and how to engage based on how points have previously been awarded.

Traditional web forums do not automatically sort or rank comments based on some kind of points/voting system. It’s just a chronological feed, where every comment is displayed equally regardless of how agreeable or controversial they were. Points systems encourage groupthink and pile-ons without discussion, in a way that traditional forums never did.

Its hard for me to imagine any reason a traditional forum would be better than here.

Traditional forums don’t get random people who have no idea what they’re talking about stumbling in from some kind of algorithmic main page. Everyone who is participating has specifically signed up because they are interested in and knowledgeable about the subject. There’s also no karma/points system neutering discussions and rewarding low effort meme replies.