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What happened to the new official forums to be rolled out in August?

Concord7Concord7 Member Posts: 125
in Star Wars Galaxies
I remember reading that there was going to be a new in-house engine for the forums. I have not heard anything in a while. Thx

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  • Wildcat84Wildcat84 Member Posts: 2,304
    It's not in house, it's actually PhpBB with a customized theme to mimic Lithium.  From what I've heard the implimentation was a disaster on MxO and the other games they have tried it on, so they've held off converting SWG, EQ, and EQ2.

    Why would anyone expect their web Devs to be any more competent than the game ones?  They are all part of the same corporate culture of sub-mediocrity that Smed exudes.




  • iskareotiskareot Member Posts: 2,143

    Originally posted by Wildcat84
    It's not in house, it's actually PhpBB with a customized theme to mimic Lithium.  From what I've heard the implimentation was a disaster on MxO and the other games they have tried it on, so they've held off converting SWG, EQ, and EQ2.

    Why would anyone expect their web Devs to be any more competent than the game ones?  They are all part of the same corporate culture of sub-mediocrity that Smed exudes.



    Lol it was alot of talk though... funny.


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    I usually picture the Career builder commercial with the room full of monkeys and upside down sales chart when thinking about the SOE/SWG decision making process.....
    SOE's John Blakely and Todd Fiala issued a warning: "Don't make our mistakes." Ref NGE
    Winner of the worst MMOS goes to.... the NGE and SWG..!!! http://www.mmorpg.com/showFeature.cfm?loadFeature=1034&bhcp=1

  • Darklighter1Darklighter1 Member UncommonPosts: 250

    Well they are really "great" at "fixing" things.  You really want them messing with the forums?  They would be "down for upgrading" for weeks if they tried.  LOL

    Although $OE is great at trying to fix things that aren't broken while ignoring stuff that IS broken....and they haven't a clue how to fix....

  • RekrulRekrul Member Posts: 2,961
    They realized new forums need collision detection.

  • CastleGoobCastleGoob Member Posts: 134
    Well theres going to be a "New Forum Experience" They feel that just 1 thread on how great they are will be iconic an cool. And a whole lot less reading. Many different topics and many threads where to hard to maintain.
  • KenshuAniKenshuAni Member CommonPosts: 851

    Consider these factors.

    1.  Forum change likely to cause extensive downtime

    2.  Many NGE subscribers have stated that they only pay so that they can play the forums, as it is more fun than the NGE.

    3.  A particularly large snafu in the forums might encourage those above to leave.

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