Also Known As: banshee_revora (Steam) Joined: 15 Aug 2002 Location: Brazil
Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2015 3:35 am Post subject:
CommandAndConquer.com has been reformulated.
Ladies and gentelmen! Have you visited the Official Command & Conquer website recently? Since the end of october 2013, when the upcoming Free To Play game was canceled, the site was no longer updated and still an 'Apply to Beta' button, an active forums where a bunch of fans who were not aware of the events asked when they would receive their beta key, etc... And it was like that until.... few days ago.
In order to provide a better support and not mislead their customers, they've replaced everything with a place holder site that points their customers to their web browser game Tiberium Alliances and its forums. Depending on the country that you live, you may also see a button to buy The Ultimate Collection in Origin (Brazilians see a translated 'product is not available' text). Also, they have also removed the official forums and its content.
After all, who cares about how to play the recent games in windows 8, how to mod them, frequently asked questions, community for these games, etc? Specially when these games are still sold on Origin, Steam and other stores? I guess it only clutter the web with useless and confusing information, isn't it? At least, here in PPM it does.... which makes me wonder what would be the reason to have some of this kind of content here....
Anyway, the community response couldn't be better. With the excellent work from EA to make the franchise as popular and as discussed as possible in the web, we only had four miserable complaints in the Tiberium Alliances forum, at the moment of this post, and perhaps a few more at CNCNZ.com. I guess we might have a great approval from our community, since the complaints are so few.
There might be no better way to support a product than wiping every official information about it, important customer support information and removing the means for customers contact each other and find other potential fans of the product. As an act of appreciation, I must say that EA is doing a great job in that direction, with a franchise that could easily provide them millions of dollars by either doing a decent game for it like in the old times or selling in into a company that would do a better use of it.
Don't be surprised if our future generations never hear about this franchise and also don't be surprised if you have detected a lot of sarcasm and irony in this news post.
Despite the lack of official support, you can find modding support for all decent Command and Conquer games (by decent, we exclude Tiberian Twilight, Sole Survivor and Tiberium Alliances) in our community. Check our links in the left and right menu of this site to find out more tips, such as tutorials, resources, maps, tips to play multiplayer, etc. For further Command & Conquer discussion, use our forums. Last edited by Banshee on Mon Jan 19, 2015 4:42 pm; edited 1 time in total QUICK_EDIT
Joined: 22 Nov 2010 Location: Iszkaszentgyorgy, Hungary
Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2015 10:36 am Post subject:
Especially that the main hub of SAGE-XML modding was on the official forums. Notsure those can survive after this. _________________ "If you didn't get angry and mad and frustrated, that means you don't care about the end result, and are doing something wrong." - Greg Kroah-Hartman
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wow, this is so horrible i can't even begin to talk about how much this sucks.
Even though i was never on these official forums (since they belong to EA), i can understand what a bitchslap this is for all those who were active there.
I hope such infos spread around and EA gets a boycott from all customers, so they finally realize that such crap behaviour is unacceptable. _________________ SHP Artist of Twisted Insurrection: Nod buildings
So, why does everyone thing that all is lost? They could be working on a whole new portal.
Because the last time that EA did a forum refresh, all of the old content was gone, it is just how they do things.
So last time, all of the very useful information from the beginning of C&C3 modding (and general game support), was lost because EA upgraded their forums from awful, to just terrible.
It was always a dumb idea to use the official forums for modding support anyway, because of how EA do forum\web page updates, along with EA's poor communication. _________________ QUICK_EDIT
Also Known As: banshee_revora (Steam) Joined: 15 Aug 2002 Location: Brazil
Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2015 3:51 am Post subject:
The errors 503s are not as often as they were a while ago. PPM is browsable nowadays (unlike the official C&C forums), although I'll work later to reduce this issue. QUICK_EDIT
Someone should get a wayback copy from the forums and put them in here, rename PPM to "CNC OFICCIAL FORUMSES" and voila, no need to add support for other games; your servers will overload with people interested in the official CnC business! _________________
503s aside, ppm is full of bloat if you ask me, including lots of forums for dead mods. I can't help but feel that PPM would be helped if some shit got deleted, Yano? _________________ Victory! QUICK_EDIT
Doesn't surprise me anymore to be honest. With EA's reputation as is. Their Game Communities usually are the ones that end up keeping the Games Alive. And remembering how EA won Worst Company of the Year 2 times in a row already... so yeah doesn't surprise me.
This may also mean an influx of new community members though who'll migrate to us here. _________________ ~ Excelsior ~ QUICK_EDIT
EA winning that is absurd, though. It was competing against heinous Wall St. banks but the powers of butthurt neckbeards make it seem like EA is even worse than criminal banks... _________________ Victory! QUICK_EDIT
Also Known As: banshee_revora (Steam) Joined: 15 Aug 2002 Location: Brazil
Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2015 4:17 pm Post subject:
The Official Forums are officially gone. Here's what the community manager over Tiberium Alliances has posted:
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Hi,
First of all I would like to welcome you all to the new C&C forums. You are probably wondering what might have happened to the good old franchise forums on http://www.commandandconquer.com. We would first like to apologies to you about removing the old forums without prior notice. The website has been updated and the forums were removed together with the old website.
We are currently looking into possibly backing up the old forums and threads so that we can integrate them here. However please understand that we cannot promise anything as of yet.
Please make yourself comfortable and free to discuss anything C&C related in our forums. Once again, big welcome to our forums!
You cannot post new topics in this forum You can reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum You cannot attach files in this forum You can download files in this forum
CommandAndConquer.com has been reformulated.
