BreOl72: To be fair,
most of the game specific subforums are "dead" most of the time.
So I get why anybody rather posts their questions in the General Discussions
(first).
But this becomes a self-perpetuating cycle -- dead forums will stay dead, lightly used ones will die, and some of the heavily visited ones might even become lightly used.
I would always go the opposite route -- post in the game forum, and if there're no (helpful) responses, or the problem is unresolved after a while,
then (and
only then) post in "General Discussion". (Also, how hard is it to just
check to see if a particular game forum is a ghost town or not before deciding where to post?) There's already enough going on in General without adding game-specific topics (for games that are sold here
and have very active dedicated forums) into the mix. This is not even taking into account that it will be much more likely for future visitors to be able to find threads with helpful advice for a particular game if those threads are actually in the right forum. I know I've found plenty of topics with useful info just by browsing through the forum for a particular game. But if such a topic were posted in GD, then unless it's been recently active on a day when I happen to be scanning the first page or two of threads regularly, or somebody directly links to it in another thread I happen to read, I'll likely never see it.