Re: Facebooked [Archive]

MtlAngelus

27 Feb 2009, 20:20

Team17 is in the process of setting up a Facebook community for fans of the studio and/or our titles (past, present and future).

It's very early days yet and the link is http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team17...td/64566768063

By all means stop by, bookmark the page and if there's a title you wish to keep informed of, simply click the "become a fan" option and news will be periodically news.

The Facebook pages will get exclusive news and content from time to time and marks a potential move away from corporate web sites.

Does that also mean the forum could potentially get replaced by a facebook community?

Saffya

27 Feb 2009, 20:25

I hope not, since I can't stand Facebook at all. I had a profile there but after nearly a year I deactivated it.

thomasp

27 Feb 2009, 20:55

Obviously I cannot speak with any authority, but I doubt it. Facebook doesn't really have the same "tech support" style interface that a forum has. I think what Spadge meant was that previously each new game would have its own website (worms3d.com, wormsfortsundersiege.com, wormsmayhem.com, wormsopenwarfare.com, etc), those may be replaced by facebook "Pages". Helps cut costs I guess...

Kelster23

28 Feb 2009, 00:08

lol I found Andrew Taylor XD

Akuryou13

28 Feb 2009, 01:44

lol I found Andrew Taylor XDyes, let's all start babbling on about who we can find on facebook and join the rest of the internet in being totally awesome and cool! :cool:

but really, I wonder if we can get spadge to answer this one. I'm kinda curious myself what degree of facebooking will be happening.

Pickleworm

28 Feb 2009, 02:42

yes, let's all start babbling on about who we can find on facebook and join the rest of the internet in being totally awesome and cool! :cool:

but really, I wonder if we can get spadge to answer this one. I'm kinda curious myself what degree of facebooking will be happening.

You're just jealous because... I found Ben Paddon!!!! Hahahahahaha:p:p now i know what his face looks like

Akuryou13

28 Feb 2009, 03:30

You're just jealous because... I found Ben Paddon!!!! Hahahahahaha:p:p now i know what his face looks likewho wants to see HIM!? he's gay, cause he's ben paddon!

MtlAngelus

28 Feb 2009, 03:42

As a famous philosopher once said, Ben is gay and it's great.

bonz

28 Feb 2009, 10:26

Hmm.
Facebook recently tried to introduce new GTCs, that would have allowed them to commercially exploit all uploaded user content, even after a user has "deleted" the account.

They encountered massive resistance by the community and reverted back to the older GTCs.
Now they supposedly let the users vote for the new ones.
That reminds me of the annexation of Austria by the Nazis in 1938, when the pro forma vote afterwards unsurprisingly came out with about 99% pro-Hitler.

Yes, I'm comparing Facebook with the Nazi regime.
now i know what his face looks like
You would have known if you had ever visited Dream17. :mad:

Saffya

28 Feb 2009, 12:03

I've seen quite a lot of people's IRL pics long before I heard of Facebook. Even Splapp's.

When I had one, it was mostly former "schoolmates" that wanted to friend me, even ones I had major issues with, and it seems that all they ever post are pictures of either themselves getting drunk or their babies. Plus the interface got really ugly and cluttered for me so that's why I quit. If anyone wants short updates from me they can come to my twitter instead.

SupSuper

28 Feb 2009, 13:51

Star Worms

28 Feb 2009, 14:18

I really dread social sites by now. They always take no more than a few months to become extremely crappy and annoying and everyone begging to invite you. So now my usage of Facebook has been reduced to this:

*logs in*

*check messages*

*15 application requests*

*ignore all*

(and they only introduced the Ignore button recently)To be fair, this only happened once it was sold onto a media corporation. Which is what you expect, really.

What they don't seem to realise (or maybe they do given their recent move), is how easy it is for everyone to move to another site in droves. I had a MySpace, but that was the internet equivalent of roadkill. Then I moved to Facebook: Nice and clean looking, easy to navigate, privacy etc.

I think people underestimate how much a clean-looking site counts for. Cluttered and confusing sites (such as MySpace) make me want to leave immediately. Especially if music starts playing automatically on every page. Facebook just provided the alternative to MySpace that everyone was looking for.

AndrewTaylor

28 Feb 2009, 14:44

lol I found Andrew Taylor XD

Hello!

You're just jealous because... I found Ben Paddon!!!! Hahahahahaha:p:p now i know what his face looks like

Don't worry, the nightmares stop after a week or two.

Somewhere I'm sure there is a photo of us both together. FORUM HOLY GRAIL.

I really dread social sites by now. They always take no more than a few months to become extremely crappy and annoying and everyone begging to invite you.

Then you have rubbish friends. Don't blame Facebook for that. I don't hate email because sometimes the people who email me are idiots.

Saffya

28 Feb 2009, 15:52

Oh I feel your pain Sup. :( With me, these were people that used to bully me at school and it seems that they only want to have oh so many people on their lists.

I had like, two Myspaces, one I deleted, the other I haven't updated in a year. Even worse place to be. I had a bebo too but I can't remember my login.

SupSuper

28 Feb 2009, 16:04

Then you have rubbish friends. Don't blame Facebook for that. I don't hate email because sometimes the people who email me are idiots.Well blocking my family because they're idiots would be rude. And I live with them. :p

The problem is these kind of sites have no restrictions. Anyone can invite you to anything whether you give a damn or not. Facebook is better at this than most, I'll admit, but they've let it slide a bit with applications, so I can't help but blame them a bit. There's been a lot of havoc caused by applications because they're not properly monitored.

E-mail, on the other hand, has filters, I only give it out to who I want, and for some people is more effort to use than a social site. Therefore mine is happily idiot-free.

yakuza

28 Feb 2009, 20:27

I don't think I could possibly live without the Spanish facebook

These things save so much time, money and effort that it the criticism is most of the time based on bias against what's popular.

Plasma

28 Feb 2009, 20:51

I generally don't like facebook and such because, most of the time, it's downright depressing reading what the average person my age writes! It's as bad as Youtube comments!

Saffya

28 Feb 2009, 21:06

People my age and even older write like that too. And don't get me started on Youtube. Someone thinks that I got the names of one of my Worms Open Warfare videos wrong. :/

Kelster23

28 Feb 2009, 23:08

I generally don't like facebook and such because, most of the time, it's downright depressing reading what the average person my age writes! It's as bad as Youtube comments!

I find them rather amusing. You say something to someone and they're like "ur ghey".

Star Worms

28 Feb 2009, 23:22

I generally don't like facebook and such because, most of the time, it's downright depressing reading what the average person my age writes! It's as bad as Youtube comments!Nothing is as bad as Youtube comments!

Well, perhaps cot death...

SupSuper

1 Mar 2009, 01:30

SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING: Prolonged Youtube comment reading causes brain cancer.

Kelster23

1 Mar 2009, 04:14

Lol I saw one video (It was some Twifag ranting about how Stephen King isn't allowed to say that Stephanie Meyer can't write) where over half the comments were "MAN THE HARPOONS!"

Akuryou13

1 Mar 2009, 04:15

Lol I saw one video (It was some Twifag ranting about how Stephen King isn't allowed to say that Stephanie Meyer can't write) where over half the comments were "MAN THE HARPOONS!"no, really, can you just stop talking now?

seriously, you're not making ANY sense at all....

Kelster23

1 Mar 2009, 04:25

Okay.:rolleyes:

Plasma

1 Mar 2009, 11:35

Twifag
That's one of those words that really does need to stay in Facebook. Because out here in the real world, 'fag' actually means something. Something less-than-nice.

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Saffya

1 Mar 2009, 12:16

Oh god Twilight.

On Youtube people say the most retarded things to me, perhaps more so than on DeviantART. :/ While we're on about YT, I just wanna ask quick:

Ignoring the title, is this Puzzle 1 in the DS version of Open Warfare 2? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyvOHLyQHuI) [yey mad worms skillz] Because I'm sure, and if it is then that person is a dumbo whose comment shall be rejected.

super_frea

1 Mar 2009, 12:21

I had like, two Myspaces, one I deleted, the other I haven't updated in a year. Even worse place to be. I had a bebo too but I can't remember my login.
I'd say Facebook is the lesser of the three evils. I've got all three but I haven't used Bebo or Myspace for about a year and a half. Bebo is full of pikeys and Myspace is just desolate.

Kelster23

1 Mar 2009, 19:10

That's one of those words that really does need to stay in Facebook. Because out here in the real world, 'fag' actually means something. Something less-than-nice.

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I didn't learn it on Facebook. I learned it on Gaia, thanks. And I know what fag means.
It's a cigarette of course :rolleyes:
and a homosexual.

GrimOswald

2 Mar 2009, 03:06

A derogatory term for a homosexual. Not that it matters I suppose, since it seems to be just used as a generic insult these days, in the same way everything negative is now "gay."

franpa

2 Mar 2009, 03:49

Ignoring the title, is this Puzzle 1 in the DS version of Open Warfare 2? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyvOHLyQHuI) [yey mad worms skillz] Because I'm sure, and if it is then that person is a dumbo whose comment shall be rejected.

unless he dumped his own rom to his computer, he is pretty retarded for putting up a video of him infinging copyrights.

Pickleworm

2 Mar 2009, 03:57

Sorry about the thread MtlAngelus. Sorry that I kinda helped in its ruin.

For what it's worth I think Facebook pages for individual games are a neat idea (because who doesn't take joy in showing the entire world the things you like) and would be effective for quick and easy customer interaction with little cost to Team17 themselves. I regularly use Facebook myself but it's okay if you don't. I understand if you hate me. I'm not judging you.

I don't feel like this is intended to replace individual websites for the games (except for perhaps the older and more niche games) and shouldn't as the content you can offer up on a Facebook page is much more restrictive than what you can offer on a website, to my knowledge. Maybe it would be just as effective. Who knows.

There, a nice inoffensive post that was pleasant and on topic. :)

Vader

5 Mar 2009, 19:13

unless he dumped his own rom to his computer, he is pretty retarded for putting up a video of him infinging copyrights.

I'm pretty sure downloading a ROM of a DS you game you have bought off the shelf is perfectly legal.

I'm not sure you could call it backing up, since you'd not be able to get your saves off the Game Card's EEPROM by simply downloading a ROM but you've still paid for the game.

Also, on topic, I really don't like Facebook much. I joined because people I never talk to all pestered me at once so they could probe my life and compare it to their own. As a result I entertained their curiosities and now I don't hear from them anymore. It's win/win, except I don't really like my info being on there at all, so it's kinda win/draw... oh and I never update it, so they don't win either.

Fine, a draw it is.

Muzer

5 Mar 2009, 20:01

I'm pretty sure downloading a ROM of a DS you game you have bought off the shelf is perfectly legal.

I'm not sure you could call it backing up, since you'd not be able to get your saves off the Game Card's EEPROM by simply downloading a ROM but you've still paid for the game.
S'pose it depends which country you live in. I've never really seen any evidence to suggest downloading a ROM for a game that you already own the exact same ROM but in a different format (ie, on a game card/cart/whatever) is illegal outside the US with its bull**** DMCA (the UK to be precise), but feel free to prove me wrong, it's just I've never looked for any evidence :p

franpa

8 Mar 2009, 07:13

I'm pretty sure downloading a ROM of a DS you game you have bought off the shelf is perfectly legal.
afaik, in Australia you have to make your own copy for it to be legal.

AndrewTaylor

8 Mar 2009, 09:25

I really don't think it's ever been tested in a court of law. Generally, when pirates are prosecuted, they've got more than one ROM or mp3 or whatever, and almost all of them are ones they don't own. (Or, they're distributing.)

But my money would be on it being illegal. Morally fine, but illegal. (Although by 'illegal' I suppose I mean 'a civil offence with no actual damages' which is not even remotely worth anyone bothering to prosecute you for.)

Saffya

8 Mar 2009, 17:20

Wow I feel kinda bad about recording Worms Open Warfare 2 even though I own a hard copy of the game [I bought mine like ages ago], but there ya go, better than doing a crappy job with your webcam like a load of people do. It;s annoying when people do that in front of a TV just because they don't have a Dazzle VHS ripper or DVD recorder.

I've heard that there's some worm going around on facebook, can anyone tell me what it's about? Because I'm sure that it's more likely to be a hoax, something we've been getting on DeviantART lately.

Plasma

8 Mar 2009, 20:36

Wow I feel kinda bad about recording Worms Open Warfare 2 even though I own a hard copy of the game [I bought mine like ages ago], but there ya go, better than doing a crappy job with your webcam like a load of people do. It;s annoying when people do that in front of a TV just because they don't have a Dazzle VHS ripper or DVD recorder.
The smart move would be to record it, then overlay it with a black frame where the border is, then crop it. People can't fully claim it's an emulator then (despite there being no actual recording software for the DS, but...)