my post is a joking reference to this:
steam has a ‘forum’ for any game ‘sold’ there, but they usually aren’t used as community hubs, but rather a cesspool of complaints by people that don’t know anywhere else to turn (and tend to be the sort that go about complaining to every outlet they can for about any game they attempt to play.)
There’s also the dev.dota2 but that’s predominately for bug reports, but neither of those outlets are posted on the ‘official’ page for DotA 2, which isn’t that surprising since that game has/had a reputation for disregarding the community anyway – hence no outlet for ‘official’ communication.
The veiled punchline is that ‘forums’ are a ‘dead’ medium so of course a game like HotS will still have one while other games have ‘moved on’ to platforms more palatable for plebeian players .