Also Known As: banshee_revora (Steam) Joined: 15 Aug 2002 Location: Brazil
Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 12:08 pm Post subject:
New CommandAndConquer.com site going online in a week!
Subject description: Bye bye interview about OMC :P
Think quickly:
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How do you get rid of a 106 pages topic that bashes the DRM of your product to hell scaring your customers without pissing off the fans?
Install new forums for your product, of course.
Just kidding. EA had plans to change the forums and the C&C.com site before the community summit that happened back in june and now they'll do it. I haven't seen the site yet, but the forum change will certainly come handy. They'll get rid of the awful and slow Jive Software to the new super fast and phpBB imitation JForum. Here's the announcement from APOC:
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Hey everyone,
This may come as surprise to many of you, though to those of you who remember the community summit reports from back in June, you'll recall we mentioned we've been building a brand new franchise website for Command & Conquer.
This FRIDAY we will be posting a Q&A about the new website, how you will create your new profile, do your best to ensure your forum name, etc. We'll put the info out there and then answer your questions here on the forum so everyone knows what's up, and there are no big surprises (except for the new look!).
The new CommandandConquer.com is the beginning of a new direction for your Command & Conquer online web experience. It will encompass news, media, and community info for all three C&C universes: Red Alert, Tiberium, and Generals (this universe section will be primarily community news focused just to set your expectations for now). The website will also be home to your evolving profile and in-game stats for C&C 3/KW/RA3. So don't worry, you're not going to lose any of your profile stats.
And not to mention, we are also launching a brand new set of forums! The forums will be exactly the same as the new Spore forums, of course themed for C&C. You'll have new layers of functionality and better forums overall. These forums have been received very well in the Spore community and I expect the same for C&C (since we know our current forums haven't exactly been the best). Here is a link to check out SPORE Forums so you know what to expect.
A lot of good things are coming this way for the C&C community, we hope you are excited. I am.
-APOC
That's a way to go, specially for the forums. However, the site change has some negative aspects, as far as my experience with C&C site revamps can say. One of them is that the vast majority, if not all, of the content from the old site gets wasted. In this case, the most important things are tools that EA releases, such as mod SDK, art pack, world builder, etc... which have a great chance to disappear. Let's hope they spare it. QUICK_EDIT
I've been watching that DRM discussion topic very actively, but I haven't posted my opinion there, yet. Is EA going answer to DRM issue after the release of RA3? QUICK_EDIT
Long answer short: No. It will take plummeting sales to do that.
The forums seem a good idea compared to the old ones. I doubt they will forget to port the tools over. But knowing EA... _________________ Comcast: Yo dawg we herd yo were downloading, so we put fail in yo modem so yo cant download while yo failin! QUICK_EDIT
Joined: 14 Feb 2006 Location: Flying into hostile territory
Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 7:02 pm Post subject:
well lets have someone from the community dl all the released assets likely to get dumped and shove them up on filefront and the like and resubmit them to EA o add to the new site.
EDIT: the Complaint page is now at 107 pages _________________ QUICK_EDIT
It will encompass news, media, and community info for all three C&C universes: Red Alert, Tiberium, and Generals (this universe section will be primarily community news focused just to set your expectations for now)
I guess they will be making Gen 2 now if they are planning to keep it and update on their future forums. QUICK_EDIT
Joined: 28 Sep 2005 Location: Mixing psilocybin in your drinks.
Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 1:10 am Post subject:
Crap? Ever since SAGE came into play, the games have looked great. If EA did anything right, it was the graphics (that weren't glitched ). _________________
[quote="DCoder"]There is no sanity left in this thread.[/quote] QUICK_EDIT
Another thing I want it more posts per page. It's like 15 IIRC. Here's is what, 50? That 107 page topic would be like 33 pages. But w/e, I wont check those forums once the game actually comes out _________________ Please, read the signature rules of the forum. QUICK_EDIT
I think gen 2 will be good if they give each side in the game a proper motive for the actions they take. Not like FOR THE CAUSE!!!! lets destroy the world:P If they had legitimate millitaries it would be an awesome game:P QUICK_EDIT
except for the unreal series. They generally do listen to their fan base.
Go and have a look on the Epic Games forums and you'll find a very different story.
They've basically completely dropped all aspects of it it now in favour of Gears, a fair few of the intelligent modders have been banned and there's a generally not very nice attitude from the (forum) staff to the community. _________________ QUICK_EDIT
That's what I was thinking. Unless there's an entire games worth of content in there I'm not paying more than a tenner for it. Or maybe if they upgrade the engine to 3.5 as I've got it more for modding than playing.
Frankly anything less than that the community can do themselves. _________________ QUICK_EDIT
For those interested in the latest information concerning the DRM. Personally I see no problems with it and will be buying the game with it included. QUICK_EDIT
Better, but still not good enough for me unfortunately.
Interesting that he confirms they'll turn the servers off at some stage, studios using securom seem to have avoided that until now. _________________ QUICK_EDIT
Joined: 14 Feb 2006 Location: Flying into hostile territory
Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 4:17 pm Post subject:
some of those servers are shutting down already. Won which is the homeworld/homeworld cataclysm online server is being shut down and both are securom protected titles. _________________ QUICK_EDIT
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New CommandAndConquer.com site going online in a week!
