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Doom 3 Web Site Now Operational
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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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.
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Without this, it wouldn't be DooM anymore, it would be Daikatana or some other shit like that, leave DOOM ALONE, YOU NOOOOOB!
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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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.