Officially died?

PumpkinSmasher · August 10th, 2006, 06:29 PM

So has this officially died?

Danimetal · August 21st, 2006, 04:01 AM

Ask Fatal, he´s in charge right now as I don´t have the time to do the reviews. I´m pretty sure that this isn´t oficially dead but in a long hold until stuff is reordered and more support is adquired.

FATAL · August 21st, 2006, 06:44 AM

Well I'd still need you to teach me uploading stuff, and we'll be good. Shouldn't be too hard I'd imagine.

I must admit, the "flow" of reviews has kind of dried up. We'll see what happens, but it isn't officially dead yet.

Phoebus · August 21st, 2006, 08:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by danimetal

as I don´t have the time to do the reviews.

Quote:

Originally Posted by FATAL

We'll see what happens, but it isn't officially dead yet.

It should go without saying, but just so you know, one of you will need to do the honor of informing me and/or Doom_Dude of that via PM or email, when the time comes, as we generally don't let hosted sites remain idle indefinitely, which was explained in the hosting agreement.

FATAL · August 21st, 2006, 11:23 AM

Yes, naturally. Are you going to keep the reviews as they are, though? It would be a shame if they ceased to exist.

Danimetal · August 21st, 2006, 12:05 PM

In the very same moment that the reviews ceased exising they could be deleted as we could host them in some free site or something like that. We´d of course inform the owner of the site so he could do so but today we´re not exactly dead. It´s a matter of time to see what happens; be confident that, with time, you´ll know everything about it whether it keeps runnning or not.

jetflock · August 21st, 2006, 01:16 PM

heh, we need the reviews back. Doomworld hates legacy wads and refuses to review them properly. I'm so sick of my legacy maps being reviewed in GZDOOM, or flat out in Zdoom.

FATAL · August 21st, 2006, 02:33 PM

Heh, perhaps we're not as fanatic with doom 'round 'ere.

Don't worry. I'll keep my promise of writing a review of "Better Late than Never"!

I'll ask the team members tomorrow about the case, how do they feel. If nothing else, we'll come up with a grand final.

Phoebus · August 21st, 2006, 03:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FATAL

Yes, naturally. Are you going to keep the reviews as they are, though? It would be a shame if they ceased to exist.

Yes, of course. I never said we'd delete them, or stop hosting them. We don't do that. But as far as hosting an active, vibrant community site, we'd prefer it stay active, of course. If you don't want, or can't keep the site active, maybe you can find some folks who are dedicated. If not, then it would go into an archived/"informational-only" (still of great value to the community) status, same as other sites have, until such time as you guys wanted to resume with the same infectious vigor, so to speak, you started out with. I mean, we placed a lot of faith in the site by hosting it, and even gave it a forums section. I really hope you guys can figure things out, and it remains active. Needless to say, your site is safe. Hope this clears things up.

Danimetal · August 21st, 2006, 08:20 PM

Great news and great understanding

... I really wish that Fatal can take the lead of this and grant some reviews each two weeks. I think that if the content is good, people should be happy and proud to participate in this little service.

I´ll do my best to try and review something here and there when everything is moving again.

General Greivous · August 22nd, 2006, 05:34 AM

If I had the interest in Doom that I used to I'd be more than willing to help do reviews and such; Unfortunately, I wouldn't want to add to an already ailing situation without giving it my best, which I'm afraid to say I cannot do. I realize this does nothing for you guys, but I just want you to know the thought is there, and I'd love to see some reviews because yes, Doomworld's /newstuff Chronicles is often lacking in the quality of reviews (but I think they're having alot of the same problem we are just on a different scale, hence why their reviews don't seem to be weekly anymore).

Ninja_of_DooM · August 27th, 2006, 01:32 AM

The forums have been dead for a while now anyway. That's why I stopped bothering with it. What with all the old stuff being dug up and posts being re-re-posted over time. There's no fun here anymore.

General Greivous · August 27th, 2006, 01:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ninja_of_DooM

The forums have been dead for a while now anyway. That's why I stopped bothering with it. What with all the old stuff being dug up and posts being re-re-posted over time. There's no fun here anymore.

Admittedly, the Doomsday HQ forums being here is about all that anchors me to this place.

Logan MTM · September 1st, 2006, 02:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jetflock

Doomworld hates legacy wads and refuses to review them properly. I'm so sick of my legacy maps being reviewed in GZDOOM, or flat out in Zdoom.

Hohoho!!! Now, tell me something new.
I exactly know what you mean?
DumbWorld sucks!

Maybe i can help with something. It depends of FATAL...

Nuxius · October 14th, 2006, 03:31 PM

R.I.P. Newdoom reviews.

*breaks out violins*

Phoebus · October 15th, 2006, 10:21 AM

In a way, they were DOOMed from the start. Nobody can keep up the amount of dedication (except for myself and D_D for this site and forums, that is, but then we're not human

) that the guys who ran the Reviews site had. Plus, they weren't appreciated enough. I for one appreciated their work, but that desire seems to have left them. True, lasting dedication is hard to find, and we're only so few.

That said, we can hope for some new blood to step in, with a similar or greater degree of enthusiasm and ability they had. Where there's a need, there's a will; and where there's a will, there's a way, says the optimist.

Aliotroph? · October 15th, 2006, 10:53 AM

I feel bad about that.

Sadly, my life exploded just after this started and I ended up not working on anything, including school. Ended up getting a full-time job for the moment for a discipline and cash injection.

I found it was easier to write a review than it was easier to play enough DooM to do it though. It's tricky to play through a lot of DooM in a hurry unless you have all kinds of time or you don't play much else. I suspect other members ran into a similar issue. There were some damn good reviews here though.

Doom_Dude · October 15th, 2006, 11:11 AM

I certainly appreciated the work the review team did to make the whole thing possible. Takes a lot of work to just put together a 'level of the day' entry, let alone a full review so I can certainly understand why nobody is doing it now. Then again, there's distractions like Oblivion and all that real-life junk that gets in the way... Hopefully the Newdoom reviews will pick up again sometime down the road.

Aliotroph? · October 15th, 2006, 11:23 AM

Maybe it would work a bit better with a different format. Instead of trying to organize mass reviews of content, we could just have some guidelines and interested people could submit reviews of things they happened to play, according to said guidelines. The guidelines Fatal and danimetal made when this forum started are pretty good, really.

There would be two tricks to this though: one is having ad-hoc submissions would probably need a different scheme for updating the site; and the other is that people's writing is vastly variable, which is a big part of why they made that test for the team in the first place.

That' s just my little idea. It may or may not be workable and it would still require one or two guys at the centre of the whole thing to keep tabs on it and do updates and give guidence.

Dutch Devil · October 15th, 2006, 11:26 AM

Maybe make very simple reviews one or two lines of text, just an short description of what the level is about and grades for gameplay detail etc, a few screens two or three would be enough.I hope to see newdoom reviews back someday.

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August 21st, 2006, 04:01 AM	#2
Danimetal Commander Keen Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Spain Posts: 4,344	Ask Fatal, he´s in charge right now as I don´t have the time to do the reviews. I´m pretty sure that this isn´t oficially dead but in a long hold until stuff is reordered and more support is adquired.

August 21st, 2006, 06:44 AM	#3
FATAL Keen For Life Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 7,429	Well I'd still need you to teach me uploading stuff, and we'll be good. Shouldn't be too hard I'd imagine. I must admit, the "flow" of reviews has kind of dried up. We'll see what happens, but it isn't officially dead yet.

August 21st, 2006, 11:23 AM	#5
FATAL Keen For Life Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 7,429	Yes, naturally. Are you going to keep the reviews as they are, though? It would be a shame if they ceased to exist.

August 21st, 2006, 12:05 PM	#6
Danimetal Commander Keen Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Spain Posts: 4,344	In the very same moment that the reviews ceased exising they could be deleted as we could host them in some free site or something like that. We´d of course inform the owner of the site so he could do so but today we´re not exactly dead. It´s a matter of time to see what happens; be confident that, with time, you´ll know everything about it whether it keeps runnning or not.

August 21st, 2006, 01:16 PM	#7
jetflock Keen For Life Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 1,381	heh, we need the reviews back. Doomworld hates legacy wads and refuses to review them properly. I'm so sick of my legacy maps being reviewed in GZDOOM, or flat out in Zdoom.

August 21st, 2006, 02:33 PM	#8
FATAL Keen For Life Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 7,429	Heh, perhaps we're not as fanatic with doom 'round 'ere. Don't worry. I'll keep my promise of writing a review of "Better Late than Never"! I'll ask the team members tomorrow about the case, how do they feel. If nothing else, we'll come up with a grand final.

August 21st, 2006, 08:20 PM	#10
Danimetal Commander Keen Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Spain Posts: 4,344	Great news and great understanding ... I really wish that Fatal can take the lead of this and grant some reviews each two weeks. I think that if the content is good, people should be happy and proud to participate in this little service. I´ll do my best to try and review something here and there when everything is moving again.

August 22nd, 2006, 05:34 AM	#11
General Greivous Commander Keen Join Date: May 2005 Location: Dreaming In Digital Posts: 834	If I had the interest in Doom that I used to I'd be more than willing to help do reviews and such; Unfortunately, I wouldn't want to add to an already ailing situation without giving it my best, which I'm afraid to say I cannot do. I realize this does nothing for you guys, but I just want you to know the thought is there, and I'd love to see some reviews because yes, Doomworld's /newstuff Chronicles is often lacking in the quality of reviews (but I think they're having alot of the same problem we are just on a different scale, hence why their reviews don't seem to be weekly anymore).

August 27th, 2006, 01:32 AM	#12
Ninja_of_DooM Commander Keen Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Perthshire, Scotland Posts: 3,210	The forums have been dead for a while now anyway. That's why I stopped bothering with it. What with all the old stuff being dug up and posts being re-re-posted over time. There's no fun here anymore.

October 14th, 2006, 03:31 PM	#15
Nuxius Commander Keen Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 550	R.I.P. Newdoom reviews. breaks out violins

October 15th, 2006, 10:21 AM	#16
Phoebus Rise the Demon, Etrigan Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Glendale, CA Posts: 1,171	In a way, they were DOOMed from the start. Nobody can keep up the amount of dedication (except for myself and D_D for this site and forums, that is, but then we're not human ) that the guys who ran the Reviews site had. Plus, they weren't appreciated enough. I for one appreciated their work, but that desire seems to have left them. True, lasting dedication is hard to find, and we're only so few. That said, we can hope for some new blood to step in, with a similar or greater degree of enthusiasm and ability they had. Where there's a need, there's a will; and where there's a will, there's a way, says the optimist.

October 15th, 2006, 10:53 AM	#17
Aliotroph? Commander Keen Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: The frozen wastes of Quan'ideery Posts: 8,914	I feel bad about that. Sadly, my life exploded just after this started and I ended up not working on anything, including school. Ended up getting a full-time job for the moment for a discipline and cash injection. I found it was easier to write a review than it was easier to play enough DooM to do it though. It's tricky to play through a lot of DooM in a hurry unless you have all kinds of time or you don't play much else. I suspect other members ran into a similar issue. There were some damn good reviews here though.

October 15th, 2006, 11:23 AM	#19
Aliotroph? Commander Keen Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: The frozen wastes of Quan'ideery Posts: 8,914	Maybe it would work a bit better with a different format. Instead of trying to organize mass reviews of content, we could just have some guidelines and interested people could submit reviews of things they happened to play, according to said guidelines. The guidelines Fatal and danimetal made when this forum started are pretty good, really. There would be two tricks to this though: one is having ad-hoc submissions would probably need a different scheme for updating the site; and the other is that people's writing is vastly variable, which is a big part of why they made that test for the team in the first place. That' s just my little idea. It may or may not be workable and it would still require one or two guys at the centre of the whole thing to keep tabs on it and do updates and give guidence.

October 15th, 2006, 11:26 AM	#20
Dutch Devil Commander Keen Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Netherlands Posts: 2,037	Maybe make very simple reviews one or two lines of text, just an short description of what the level is about and grades for gameplay detail etc, a few screens two or three would be enough.I hope to see newdoom reviews back someday.

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