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Posted May 24, 2011
that's what people don't seem to get...Cd projekt red is not a major game company....they are small, they worked really hard to make this game...you guys make it look like they are not working, when these people are probably making 16 hours shift each day to make everything right for us.
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cbarbagallo: Are you seriously saying that the guys who develope the games are the same ones who manage/program the web site?
it takes less than 30 minutes to setup a simple php bulletin, so this is all bullshit. I don't care how small you are, it only takes one person to setup a temporary bulletin.

Also cdprojekt consits of more than 400 devs, so yeah...
Posted May 24, 2011
Not what I meant. I know that it is the saem company. The post I was replying to made it sound like the actual TW2 development team also was responsible for the web site.
Posted May 24, 2011
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greenfish: it takes less than 30 minutes to setup a simple php bulletin, so this is all bullshit. I don't care how small you are, it only takes one person to setup a temporary bulletin.

Also cdprojekt consits of more than 400 devs, so yeah...
I dunno. Some of the websites I've been involved with don't have trouble with that part of the website, but have big problems with bandwidth and resource management. Letting a couple thousand people simultaneously access and update a single post for everyone looking at it, a single database item, isn't quite the same as setting up a forum for seven friends to update music likes.

No, it shouldn't take this long for the official forum to appear, but hosting a huge forum isn't as easy as some people think.
Posted May 24, 2011
I wish they'd hurry up, spoilers should be kept seperate and that isn't happening here. I've stopped playing until the patch arrives because of an issue I ran into and I keep seeing posts about parts of the game I've not reached yet.
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Posted May 24, 2011
Any word?
Posted May 24, 2011
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greenfish: it takes less than 30 minutes to setup a simple php bulletin, so this is all bullshit. I don't care how small you are, it only takes one person to setup a temporary bulletin.

Also cdprojekt consits of more than 400 devs, so yeah...
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Wishb0ne: I dunno. Some of the websites I've been involved with don't have trouble with that part of the website, but have big problems with bandwidth and resource management. Letting a couple thousand people simultaneously access and update a single post for everyone looking at it, a single database item, isn't quite the same as setting up a forum for seven friends to update music likes.

No, it shouldn't take this long for the official forum to appear, but hosting a huge forum isn't as easy as some people think.
And its not that hard either.

Even if they are coding the forum from scratch (and they should have done this months ago with lots of bug testing by then also). Even then it would not take this much time unless ofc they are cording it from scratch right at this moment.

Anyway its pathetic.

And no there are no words the last update we got was that the servers would go down for a moment (yesterday).
Posted May 25, 2011
Bump for a new day............... and still no forums.

At first, I was ok with it, figuring they were having tech issues. Now, it has been a full week since launch. I am staritng to believe some of the tin foil hat crowd at this point. It makes no sense. As I said before, why not put back up the old forums until the new ones were ready?

Something is rotten is the state of Poland, as it were.................
Posted May 25, 2011
I guess that it is worth keeping this afloat, as the patch is due today...............
Posted May 25, 2011
The silence is deafening, as they say................
Posted May 25, 2011
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cbarbagallo: I guess that it is worth keeping this afloat, as the patch is due today...............
Maybe by "today" they mean some time in the next week or two. I hope not.
Posted May 25, 2011
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cbarbagallo: I guess that it is worth keeping this afloat, as the patch is due today...............
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Wishb0ne: Maybe by "today" they mean some time in the next week or two. I hope not.
Maybe they're using VALVe Time.
Posted May 25, 2011
The lack of official forum is a pretty sloppy move on their part. Personally, my experience with TW2 has been flawless but there are clearly a lot of people that are having troubles with it and we're seeing yet another case of a PC game having to be almost immediately patched for incredibly fundamental problems like "it won't install" and "it runs at 4 frames a second, even on my Nvidia card which is apparently "The way it's meant to be played"".

The game is fantastic, but the infrastructure behind it is... well it's barely existent outside of the updates on the community section of the official site. I also feel sorry for the various members of the forums who have been members on there for many months or years before TW2 came out.
Posted May 25, 2011
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AudreyWinter: While I agree that they fucked up their timing (and I was actually asking about when the new boards would be implemented a week or two before), I also know from experience that shit happens and you run into trouble that you could've not foreseen at the time. Add to that the more pressing matters like budging servers, because of more players than they hoped to expect.

Cut them some slack until tomorrow and if the forums aren't up then as promised, and hopefully with a good explanation for the delay, you can bask in the satisfaction that your paranoid suspections were probably right. ;)
I have to agree that timing wasn't good, not when you are at release for a much anticipated game. They should have waited, as someone would have started a discussion or Discussions pretty quick on the TW2 on the existing forum, which would have been fine in my opinion. Now they are saddled with two things at the same time, patches for the game and getting that straight as well as trying to get a new forum up. Not such a hot idea.
Posted May 25, 2011
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Corylea: I'm a moderator on the Witcher forum, and I was talking with the other moderators about how we would manage to cover the forum on May 17th. All of us would want to be playing the game, of course -- one of the preconditions for being a moderator is being a rabid Witcher fan :-) -- but we expected the forum to get a HUGE amount of traffic with people asking installation questions, asking gameplay questions, posting tips, posting funny lines, asking and posting all manner of stuff.

We discussed a couple of different ways to make it possible for us to play the game while still making sure that the forum had something resembling adequate coverage.

Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine that the answer to my question, "How will the moderators manage to play the game AND cover the forum on May 17th?" would be "There won't BE a forum on May 17th."

I love The Witcher. I admire CDPR. And I still think that in taking the forum down right before releasing a game, they screwed up big-time.

I'm glad to be able to play the game without distractions, though. :-)
Hey Corylea, I hadn't been over there in a couple weeks as I have been busy with the Moderating chores elsewhere. Being retired I do have a bit of time, but now the yard work has been added to the mix. Anyway, I am finding some spare time to get into TW2. I agree that it was a bad time to decide to do a changeover of the forums, with the release of the game. As it is, now they are burning their candles at both ends as it were. Never good. If they had left the forums alone for the time being, I'm sure some one would have started a discussion on TW2 or discussions. Although I have finished TW1 several times, I did drop into the forums pretty regularly. Fun place.
Posted May 25, 2011
It's nice to see you, Corylea :)
Unfortunately, I agree with you. The Witcher 2 is a great game, but it just isn't the game I've fallen in love with. The Witcher 1 is so good that I started it immediately after I completed TW2...and I find it more enjoyable. Perhaps the DLCs and expansions will change that :)
I miss the official forum. .. :)
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