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    06. 02. 2011 09:07

Splid
For those of you who are unfamiliar with the story of the New Website I have a tale of
almost infinite entertainment with which to entertain you with.

The Website was originally supposed to be out around the start of the New Year. January
in other words. Unfortunately this didn't materialise and a discussion on the Fleet
Leaders forum was started.

Now, I won't be doing any quoting from there but suffice it to say there have been
numerous deadlines mentioned in there which started in February and tailed into March,
they April.

Then, the bomb dropped, a comment from Yuno himself stating the following:




The start of May came and there was no sight of this new Website. Yuno did however take
the time to post a May Update. This contained the following Statement:




Now, we are in June and the Website is still not here. The biggest question I have to
pose to the community is why?

SDE has a separate Website Development Team working on this Website, they are independant
of the Devs and don't do any actual NF Ingame stuff. Now, we have been told that the
Server Merge slowed this process down, but the more observant of you will have noticed
that I said this Team doesn't actually do anything Ingame. Interesting.


The Website is now almost 6 months overdue, meaning it has spent longer being LATE than it
has spent with the community aware of it. This is just the latest in an unfortunate line
of SDE projects that are large on promise and short on delivering.

Now, I don't want people to think I am suggesting the website should be released as it is
now, but the question must remain, why is something that was scheduled to take a few
months now spiralling out of control into half a year?

This is something that the community should be aware of, SDE are notoriously bad with
Deadlines. If you see one (and I am not kidding here) add on about half a year to it and
expect it to be about 1/3 as good as you were hoping for.

This is not a flame thread, this is an information thread for those of the community who
are unfortunately not very informed on this matter.
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  • Re : Deadlines.

    06. 02. 2011 09:55

Plazmadj
"Then again, it is far easier to just see a name and flame instead of reading a post isn't
it :)"

Actually Splid, it is far easier to just log into NF and play the game rather than
visiting the forums, which explains why only maybe 20% of the NF community ever comes to
the forums in the first place. The dedicated players/most players that want to at least be
somewhat informed of anything that happens behind the scenes may come the forums, but some
would just rather flame (as you said), and most would rather just not visit the forums
whatsoever...but such is Navyfield :-/.

I will say ty for the thread with all of this information, but as Sindher brought up there
are quite a few threads about it already. Hopefully this thread can build and lead to no
more threads needing to be created on the same subject :-/

  • Re : Deadlines.

    06. 02. 2011 09:55

sparximus3
"The fact is, the majority of the community doesn't know anything about what goes on and as
such it is important that they are allowed to form informed opinions on how SDE operates."

the less people know about SDEs shortcomings the better.........think of it this
way.....if everyone had a premade misconception of how a company like blizz worked do you
honestly think it would have survived as long as it has?

also it is easier to call someone out on something thats so predictable:)

just like people see the myg0t1 name and have a premade misconception of troublemaker

or how people see sindher and think noob

or how people see altseins name(or did) and think WTF?

all i am trying to say is ease up on it a bit, the less public you bashing you do about
SDE, let alone "informing the community" of its failed deliverance on a few promises, the
longer this game lasts.

And i am pretty sure you of all people dont want to be a link to this games downfall.....

  • Re : Deadlines.

    06. 02. 2011 09:48

Splid
I love people who use alts to post :)

The fact is, the majority of the community doesn't know anything about what goes on and as
such it is important that they are allowed to form informed opinions on how SDE operates.

Then again, it is far easier to just see a name and flame instead of reading a post isn't
it :)

  • Re : Deadlines.

    06. 02. 2011 09:37

Stormvanger
And when the new site finally arrives, we'll get complaints about that too. =P

- I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
- Douglas Adams

  • Re : Deadlines.

    06. 02. 2011 09:32

Sindher
How many threads do we need about a new website? Its coming when its coming.

http://www.navyfield.com/board/search.asp?Sort=C06&SearchPart=title&SearchText=website

  • Re : Deadlines.

    06. 02. 2011 09:24

sparximus3
wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

less qq more pew pew.

seriously you have been a member of this community for how long now?

lets take a stroll down memory lane shall we?

BB5 release dates?
HA release dates?
PBB fiasco and promises of nerfs(finally delivered by ONF)
misc BS
HA removal and "fix" after over a year off the servers nothing was done to it....then the
community "voted" for its return with all errors and glitches.....which makes no sense as
when it returned, it came back buggier than mississippi on a hot day in june.....
BB6 release dates

i mean seriously arent you seeing a pattern here?

why would you expect the new website to be any different?

Also why do you have a mega huge raging boner for this website? is it b/c you want to find
every exploit you can with it? Seriously all i ever see you post about is the damned new
website....just give it a rest will ya?

like i said less qq more pew pew

see ya in game

  • Re : Deadlines.

    06. 02. 2011 09:22

Griallia
The game was released in about 2005-2006 with 1999 graphics. It took them 6 years to come
up with the game engine apparently, What makes you think a website is going to be any quicker?
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