GamerDNA Site Changes coming Next Week

[mykalgaidin]

I'm actually glad you're phasing out the news section. It always felt a bit out of sync with the rest of the site.

One thing I'm still hoping for is the integration of our home pages and our public profiles.

[Doctorzongo]

Originally Posted by QforQ

Both of these features are quite old and would need quite a bit of work and time, time that could be better spent developing something that we think ultimately will accomplish the same things in a much better way.

It's important to keep in mind that, while we are taking away these features, we will be replacing them with new and better features in the near future

As the consumer with no part whatsoever in the development, I reserve the right to complain loudly and insist you're not doing your job. I also have the right to claim that it would be much better with me in charge. On that note, what's up with these smilies? I could find 20 better ones up my left nostril!



Seriously, though: you still make me sad. But as long as we're going to get new, fun features in return I'm good. Any chance we'll get a bit of a preview soon? Pretty please, with bacon on top?

[LordXenophon]

Better smilies? I doubt they're going to have time for that any time soon, but you can always put your favorites in Photobucket.

[QforQ]

Originally Posted by WayneMSmith

Maybe this is asking you to expose to much, but as to the updated rewards system. When it comes out will all our fame and badges carry over to the new system? Even if the you remove some of the badges I have will I also lose the fame for that badge?

I can't really say much about this right now since we're still in the early stages of discussions/designing what we want to do. Everything is TBD, I don't want to commit to something before I know what it is that we're actually going to do

I'm sure we'll talk about this more in the next month or so when we start tackling this issue.

Stay tuned!

[QforQ]

Originally Posted by Doctorzongo

As the consumer with no part whatsoever in the development, I reserve the right to complain loudly and insist you're not doing your job. I also have the right to claim that it would be much better with me in charge. On that note, what's up with these smilies? I could find 20 better ones up my left nostril!



Seriously, though: you still make me sad. But as long as we're going to get new, fun features in return I'm good. Any chance we'll get a bit of a preview soon? Pretty please, with bacon on top?

We totally respect your right to complain and we want to hear your feedback, that's why we started this thread and that's why I'm here

We should be able to show off some new things this coming week(at the latest the following week). We've got lots of good stuff in store, and it's not far off at all

[Svoboda]

Yay for new things and for funny complaints! =^-^=

[Zinya]

I joined here when this was GuildCafe. I liked the focus on MMORPG stuff and it seemed like a really snuggly community with Roxy’s posts on the boards, there were even some amusing trolls! I understand things changed when GuildCafe became GamerDNA, and I’m not crying about the change and wishing it could go back to how it was (how realistic would that be, right).

So, now I am wondering when(if?) groups or group hosting WILL start getting the love. I believe I joined in 2007 and, to be honest, group hosting hasn’t had any major work from what I can tell since then. Sure we got some new webpage skins, a few adjustments to random, minor, areas… but from what I can tell, people have been asking for sub-forums and rank improvements since before I joined.

I guess I’m wondering if guilds and those interested in guild hosting have a place here at GamerDNA anymore. Or is that place the back seat to gamers who play games that don’t do things in big groups (console games, fps, whatever else)?

I guess I’m just confused about the focus here and if MMORPG players are included in that focus.

-The Negative Nancy

[tekhedd]

Originally Posted by LordXenophon

I miss the tag cloud.

Me too. Oh well. It lives on in the autocompletion feature of the "what I like about this game" page. Sort of.

[QforQ]

Originally Posted by Zinya

So, now I am wondering when(if?) groups or group hosting WILL start getting the love. I believe I joined in 2007 and, to be honest, group hosting hasn’t had any major work from what I can tell since then. Sure we got some new webpage skins, a few adjustments to random, minor, areas… but from what I can tell, people have been asking for sub-forums and rank improvements since before I joined.

At this time we haven't made any announcements about when we will start working on guild hosting again.

Over the past year we've spent a lot of time fixing the various Guild Hosting Features that were just plain broken or were causing lots of trouble with the site. We've also added various features like the Ventrilo Hosting, an addition that we just made a few weeks ago.

I guess I’m wondering if guilds and those interested in guild hosting have a place here at GamerDNA anymore. Or is that place the back seat to gamers who play games that don’t do things in big groups (console games, fps, whatever else)?

I guess I’m just confused about the focus here and if MMORPG players are included in that focus.

It's not that we're focusing on one specific genre of gaming, or not focusing on one, it's that we're focusing on gamerDNA.com features entirely. This is different than before, where we would focus on gamerDNA.com as well as have staff working on enhancing guild hosting functionality.

So this isn't us trying to snuff MMORPG players..in fact a good portion of us at the company play MMOs. It's that we're focusing on fixing up a lot of core parts of gamerDNA that will make it a better place for all. This means making the site easier to use, making it *much* more useful to all types of gamers, and revamping many sections of the site like your Homepage and your Profile. Once we get a lot of this things in place and rocking hard, then we can focus on some other things.

As always, we appreciate your feedback and we hope our community understands why we made these tough decisions.

Sincerely,
Sam Houston
gamerDNA Community Manager

[Keldros]

I have to say, the guild hosting here is lots better than the last place my guild used, so it doesn't worry me if you want to focus on other stuff for a while.

Also, congrats on the Ars mention!