TheFlyingFishy said:
They did it because they couldn't properly indulge their power-tripping here.
Not really. Olafson did something wrong, and he willingly paid the price for it.
I haven't seen "power tripping" happening over at FSE, I have only seen people whining about bad administration and saying that it's a lot better than on Taleworlds because they are much nicer.
Which quite frankly is not true, FSE administration is far more lenient than TW. Though I find that an error, but it's an error caused by the community as well rather than just the administration team.
There are actually several reasons why FSE moved. The fact that there was a clash between TW forum administration and FSE team did help of course, but I can't see that as a primary reason.
To me the primary reason would be a very simple one; the community got too big. With only a few boards here it was quite overpopulated, plus large amount of those people only played NW actively so they didn't really use any of the other boards. In addition, the rest of the forum wasn't too pleased with NW people roaming about.
Another thing that I presume to be a factor in the switch would be their upcoming game. Since their next game won't be released through taleworlds it would not get a board here. Which would mean people would have to switch over anyway. Better to do it early than late.
Plus of course the standard reasons for having your own place. (Freedom of customization)