Ryzom

browserice wrote:Having gone through 2 bankruptcies, most of us still feel uneasy because we do not know if this new Spiderweb is a small potato or a Big Player. Not knowing this makes us worry about Ryzom falling down again in 1 year.

If someone official would come down and tell us that this company is just a front fro a major league player as big as Electronic Arts, Blizzard or even ID Software, then it would make us feel more relax but I seriously do not think this will happen within the next 2 months and I understand (and respect) that decision.

I for one would be much more comfortable if Spiderweb is a small team that includes some Nevrax and is, quite preferably, willing to accept volunteer developers. A "big player" is very likely to misunderstand Ryzom and either kill it or relegate it to undeath.

dnycran wrote:Actually I shouldn't answer to such a question at all, not only due to it insulting character, but also because it already shows that you'll be unable to understand the answer. But, so what, I'm doing it anyway.."

This looks insulting to me, but it might be only because of my inability to understand things, right? ;P
I read your post and i noticed you spent a lot of time and energy looking for things and did not find out anything concrete. Mostly rumours and speculations.
Dont get me wrong, im not trying to defend Spiderweb or whoever the new owner is, but i see no reason to be suspicious so far.
I mean what could they do? Install spyware on our PCs to get account info? Steal our CC info? Im sorry but there are far better ways of doing this than buying an MMO client and paying devs to put it back online, not to mention paying for the servers and so on.
Personally i find their secrecy weird and slightly unpleasant, I dont know what are their reasons and I dont care.
Im sure they will "show themselves" before the game gets officially open and they start billing, nobody in his right mind would pay otherwise.
After they show themselves and more facts are known, only then i can decide if i trust them or not.
Until then i see no reason to be suspicious, im just in "wait and see" mode, enjoying the early access.

Judging from the invitation to help with translation I doubt Nevrax is back.

The German community has a sticky pointing to ours, but the French haven't (as far as I can see). Why would Nevrax ignore the French community?

karmelit wrote:Judging from the invitation to help with translation I doubt Nevrax is back.

The German community has a sticky pointing to ours, but the French haven't (as far as I can see). Why would Nevrax ignore the French community?

if that were the case, surely theyd be asking for french and german translators also. could be just that "admin" only speaks english and nobody was about in the office yesterday to translate for him/her

eriu3 wrote:if that were the case, surely theyd be asking for french and german translators also. could be just that "admin" only speaks english and nobody was about in the office yesterday to translate for him/her

The game is already in French and German

karmelit wrote:Judging from the invitation to help with translation I doubt Nevrax is back.

The German community has a sticky pointing to ours, but the French haven't (as far as I can see). Why would Nevrax ignore the French community?

hi I'am from the french community and we think that they didn't propose to us the work of translation because we think they want to traduce directly the game from english to an other language and they may think that is easier for you to translate english to spanish and they may be right, just read my english to be sure

We can continue speculate about the new owner and why they remain in the shadows, I don't think it hurt anyone. My take on the secrecy is that they have a PR plan and will try to make some headlines when it's time for the official relaunch. I expect lotsa hype soon!

boroshi wrote:The game is already in French and German

was refering to news articles

admin wrote:but as well as this they will be responsible for translating news posts and so on when required

Thanks Boroshi. I had no idea you actually encourage us to speculate widely Had I understood that I wouldn't have bothered trying to narrow the possibilities.

boroshi wrote:The game is already in French and German

Yeah, German that was so full of misspellings and simply wrong words that it almost scared me last time I saw it... *shudder*
And let´s just say that I definitely know that GF already had a completely correct translation at their hands, but never got around to implement it... -.-
I hope it was included in the deal and gets ubdated "soon".

CU
Acridiel

P.S.: I ony came back from vacation today, so I did not have the chance to look if maybe they did update already...