Darkfall

with this games official website....  because it's simply TERRIBLE.

Forget the fact that it looks like it was built by some high school class learning visual design and Photoshop.

Forget the fact that it hasn't been updated in months... and has all old game info on it.

http://www.darkfallonline.com

and you're still left with the question....  does this look like a website that represents a AAA quality MMORPG that is launching in a few weeks and ready to support active accounts and subscribers?

If these people can't even put together a proper industry standard quality website weeks before a supposed commercial launch.. then how in gods name can anyone expect an actual functioning MMORPG to be launched?

Subjective.

right..you have a problem..

The thing to remember is that Aventurine has made it fairly obvious they don't give a shit about publicity. The site is simple, information is fairly accurate, and it still is functional/navigatable.

I'm glad they're focus is on making the game instead b/c that's all that really matters to me.

I'm not entirely disagreeing with you either. It probably wouldn't hurt to do so this close to a supposed launch.

Eh well they aint a big company. And who cares about websites when the truth is in the game itself. Long as functions and has everything needed at launch time on the website who cares.

Originally posted by Mazer14

The thing to remember is that Aventurine has made it fairly obvious they don't give a shit about publicity. 

That's not a positive thing to be bragging about. Just thought I should throw that out there next to the kool aid bowl.

How the heck are you gonna judge a game by its website? You're a fool man. They're finally trying to push the game out, and you're flaming over a poor website? They don't have time for that junk dude - They'll work on it after the game is launched when they have less on their plate. If you want "current status," check out the test vids. Nuff said.

Originally posted by Talemire

They don't have time for that junk dude

Ever hear of hiring a design studio to build a website for you? I mean surely if they can build a AAA mmorpg they can spend a few grand on having a nice site built.  Right???

Innovative idea huh?

I think the only problem you have is that you have too much free time in your hand, and you troll around Darkfall forum to fill your empty days.

I understand that the website is  very basic (it is obvious to everyone who visit it), but as a Darkfall troll, you should have followed the entire saga and you should know that Aventurine does everything at the last minute without announcing it.
Aventurine communication is very poor, many can be the reasons, main one is that they have a very small devs team.
Tasos himself is a developer, so it doesn't have probably enough time for PR, like Mark Jakobs or the fat guy from Funcom, which by the way with all the money they had at their disposal have produced 2 prime example of pure crap.

They will update the website just before launch not weeks in advance, so don't try to understand why the website is not updated, because they are not gonna do it, until is necessary to do so.

But I have an idea, since you have so much time in your hand, why don't you offer to design one.
Maybe Tasos will give you a Beta key as reward, so you can break the NDA annd tell everyone how shit Darkfall is.
 

Ah ok.

so let me get this straight -- you're saying that it takes some kind of full time, high paid, dedicated PR person to open NotePad, edit some HTML with news items and hit upload on a FTP?

You know that takes all about 5 minutes to do right?

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