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Doom 3 Web Site Now Operational

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the it's-really-almost-here dept.

thrash242 writes "After much re-re-re-rechecking, the official Doom 3 site finally has some real content, instead of just 'Coming soon' - it also confirms the August 3rd ship date. Woohoo!"

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  1. Flash? by Albanach · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm still looking for the skip intro button. It's supposed to be a website. If ID want to relase a movie trailer they could give us a .torrent to an MPEG. The website on the other hand should - quickly and concisely - let us know where we can buy it, when we can buy it, how much for and what we need to play it.

    1. Re:Flash? by Timesprout · · Score: 2, Insightful

      You really don't understand the concept of selling an image do you. If it looks cool enough people will not care about price, store locations etc. They will just make their minds up to get it.

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    2. Re:Flash? by BJH · · Score: 3, Insightful

      ...the stupid masses who (a) are stupid and thus are willing to dig through an all-Flash website and probably to put down their cash for a game on the basis of how cool it looks, and (b) are a mass, which means there's a lot of them.

      Sorry, but I think their marketers are probably doing their job...

    3. Re:Flash? by danila · · Score: 4, Insightful

      You don't really understand. (a) It's not just the geek standard-loving flash-hating crowd that leaves such sites in dusgust. It's your average Joe Shmoe that opens something on his 33.6 dial-up connection, waits a bit, doesn't see anything informative, looks around for clues, doesn't find them and says "fuck it". Ask anyone who had the tiniest bit of usability testing experience. The stupid masses are not stupid when it comes to being forced to do unfunny things. (b) When someone comes to doom3.com they already got the image. They are interested, but nothing more - just interested. No matter how good Doom3 is it's just a game most people can live without. And there are many games just as good as Doom3 is. If id wants to sell as many copies as they want, they should cater to their customers, not attempt to force them to "buy an image". They don't want to buy an image, they wanted to buy a game, but no more, thank you very much.

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    4. Re:Flash? by halowolf · · Score: 4, Insightful
      Sorry, but I think their marketers are probably doing their job...

      <rant>

      If this is their idea of doing their job, then I would fire them. Its a few weeks till launch and all we have on the official website, is 3 wallpapers, some screenshots and a single demo movie (quite pretty), and a pre-order link.

      Now is the time that D3 should be getting hyped, and being shoved down out throats at every opportunity. The official website should be a showcase for the game, getting us revved up and excited for its release, giving us the lowdown on everything that anyone would wan't to know. It certainly doesn't live up to my exepectations on what an official website should be.

      Perhaps, they are relying on other websites to do their job for them, or are just trading on the id and Doom 3 name knowing that its just going to be selling like hotcakes anyway. But at the end of the day, at this point in D3 development I think the website should be more than this.

      </rant>
    5. Re:Flash? by thrash242 · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Well, the point of the story is that there now *more* than that on the site now.

      For certain games or movies, sometimes having too much info available isn't a good thing. It keeps things suspenseful to keep things somewhat quiet. I wouldn't want to see info about every weapon, every enemy, all the bosses, all the levels, etc. It would ruin the mystery and fear that's supposed to go along with this game.

  2. Re:Hmmm....... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah, because the original Dooms, years before HL1, didn't use that storyline at all??? What age are you?

  3. Re:Hmmm....... by cozziewozzie · · Score: 4, Insightful

    id wanted to do a remake of the original DooM with new technology, and part of the charm of the original DooM was its completely nonsense storyline: you get teleported to hell, kill kill kill.

    Without this, it wouldn't be DooM anymore, it would be Daikatana or some other shit like that, leave DOOM ALONE, YOU NOOOOOB! :)

  4. Lame desktop wallpapers by Patik · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Since when is 1024x768 considered large? IMO that's the smallest they should offer. Especially for a gaming crowd, you'd think 1600x1200 would be the standard large size.

  5. Inevitable disappointment by inkswamp · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Carmack may want to get George Lucas on the phone. After all this hype and build-up, even the best game imaginable is going to get trashed when it fails to change the lives of those who play it.

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