Darkfall

well its kind of unfair comparison, as Warhammer and AOc is gonna win hands down for information, news, development progress, and of course the visual quality and organization, and navigation of the site is high quality. Realize though df has a much smaller funding budget, and dev team.

though the fact that DF site is basic doesnt necessarily mean a bad thing if the information is...well informative. but in the end i think you cant really compare given how Darkfall is so "mum's the word" on the development of the game, so your not going to get a huge amount of information from them, let alone the current state of the game both in context and visually with screenshots.

in the end if i could compare them all at once AOC, Warhammer and then DF  in that order as far as what they offer visually, nagivation, its layout, information etc.

I'am sorry but Darkfalls website looks like it was built by an 8'th grader just learning photoshop....

The UI design work is horrible.. you can barely read the fonts without squinting....  most of it has completely outdated info.... it's rarely updated..

Does this look like a company who is serious about putting out a game?   A games website represents the quality of the company and the product..  Darkfalls website is a joke.

Originally posted by nakuma

Realize though df has a much smaller funding budget, and dev team.

If they can't afford to hire a professional studio for a few thousand dollars to build them a website then how exactly do you think they can build a MMORPG??

See how that works?

I like the AoC website.

But if that means they have a good MMO.....only time will tell. After all im just looking for a good game, not a cool website.

maybe game studios should worry more abotu ther game than there website ><

I do not like judging a games development by a website, never have and never will.

A game's website is to give information on the game, nothing more nothing less.  If it's a game I am interested in, the last thing I will do is look at the web design.  The web design should be the last on anyone's mind when they are looking for an interesting game.  Just because a site is not well designed does not mean that the game will not be good.  Perhaps they do not have a web designer on the dev team yet, no big deal

Let's face it.  A site is not really important, the game is all that matters. I would rather them work for a game than work on a website, which I only use to gather information on a game.

If there is a game that has amazing ideas but not a well designed website, am I really going to turn around and say, "The game looks good, but the website sucks.  Since the website sucks, I guess that means they can't design a game."  That is not true at all though.  As long as the game looks good, I couldn't give a crap about the website.

PS.  This was not only referencing to Darkfall, but every other game.

P.S.S.  OP, you clearly made this thread to start some AoC vs. WAR vs. Darkfall  wars...Good job

P.S.S.S.  /grabs popcorn

Originally posted by killerxion

maybe game studios should worry more abotu ther game than there website ><

Ahh!  I agree with downtoearth... never thought I would see the day.

Care to find me a sucessful MMORPG game in 2008 that doesnt have an amazing website like AoC and Warhammer ? Blizzard's website is one of the best imo and their game is kicking ass.

That's weird because both AoC and War have an amazing website and great community journals and both of them are in beta and things are going well. In the case of Darkfall, the website is very bad, their community journals are of the worst of the industry and the game is considered vaporware.

Im pretty sure there's a correlation between a well done website, a good community journal and a sucessful game, and lets just say that Darkfall has none of that.

Originally posted by Kairarr

Care to find me a sucessful MMORPG game in 2008 that doesnt have an amazing website like AoC and Warhammer ? Blizzard's website is one of the best imo and their game is kicking ass.

When you have 10 million members of course you should have a good website.  Right now we're talking about a game in development.

www.citadelofsorcery.com

Not a very good website, but the game is supposed to be amazing, with a whole new different gameplay.  Just becuase it has a less-fancy website does not mean I will judge the game by it.

Then again,  that is my opinion.  When you say WoW is great, that is also your opinion.

That's weird because both AoC and War have an amazing website and great community journals and both of them are in beta and things are going well. In the case of Darkfall, the website is very bad, their community journals are of the worst of the industry and the game is considered vaporware.

1)  A game's website has NOTHING to do with how good the game is.  If you think that, then that is just foolish.  Just because the pay more money for web designers doesn't mean anything.

2) Way to throw words into my mouth.  Please point out where in my post I made a reference to dev journals.

Im pretty sure there's a correlation between a well done website, a good community journal and a sucessful game, and lets just say that Darkfall has none of that.

Just because a game has a good website does not mean the game will be great.  I could pay someone to make a great website, but come out with a crappy game, it's extremely possible.  I am sure that these companies did not have these sites when they began development.  They worried about the site later, when the game was far along in development.

What I am seeing you say is that a game is good because of its website.  Please, show me someone who actually cares about a website if they're actually  interested in the game.

 You are just making the assumption that since a game has a good website, the game must be good, or vise-versa.  A game doesn't need a good website to be good.  Please, go find me someone who would rather pick a good website over a game. 

In the end, what I'm saying is this.  Good games and websites do relate to eachother, but just becuase a game has a bad website does not mean the game will be crap.

Edit- DnL has a pretty good website, and I guess they turned out pretty successful...?

 Oh, and successful/good looking games without a great website?

www.runescape.com

http://www.fallenearth.com/  not an amazign website, but the game looks great

http://mabinogi.nexon.net/  Heard some great things about Mabinogi...no amazing website there.

http://www.dofus.com/en

I'm not even standing up for Darkfall.  I'm making a point that a great gam does not need a great website.