Looking to check on Jirel's client version query in another thread, I noticed that there wasn't any clear indication of client version on UOHerald - as far as I can find, for Classic the last client mentioned there is 7.0.4.3, whilst we're on 7.0.5.0.
Then I looked around the rest of the site a bit .... and it's not impressive. There was a short spell it was looking pretty good, and was genuinely useful, but it looks like it's being ignored again and since that's your main 'advert' for the game, there really isn't any excuse for :
Live events category (surely if nothing else is up to date, 'live' events should be...) - last entry
"Hyde and Seek
Start Date: October 23, 2009
End Date: To Be Determined"
There's a link to Five on Friday .... which you dropped months ago, so to anyone looking at that, the last update to the customers was November 6 2009. Either state somewhere it's a now unsupported project, or don't link to it - but it now looks weird that you point out 'hey, look, we've not been talking to people on this site for months!".
The 'Latest Update' takes you right back to the front news page .... not particularly helpful, since the contents there tend to swap between game info, patch/publish notes, adverts for the Stratics HOC, fiction... (and apparently Arirang is still down according to that page, I'd have though at some point since 24 Feb it might have been back in operation?).
There's a fair bit more there too that just looks, to be honest, amateur.... Layout is fine, content far less so, and style is NOT more important than substance. It's your shop window, and apparently the only way EA believes is worth using to advertise UO - and since it's being allowed to get by with ever lower standards and quality, should we assume that's the corporate attitude towards the game, or is it just something else that fell off Cal's radar?
It's not as if the HTML splash screen built into the client - which was expressly to help get important news to players, we were told that when it was introduced - is noticably much better, but at least that's only for those of us already addicted, so maybe you folks feel you can get away with less effort there. Your main website is important both to existing and potential new customers, there is no good excuse for letting that slip.....
Then I looked around the rest of the site a bit .... and it's not impressive. There was a short spell it was looking pretty good, and was genuinely useful, but it looks like it's being ignored again and since that's your main 'advert' for the game, there really isn't any excuse for :
Live events category (surely if nothing else is up to date, 'live' events should be...) - last entry
"Hyde and Seek
Start Date: October 23, 2009
End Date: To Be Determined"
There's a link to Five on Friday .... which you dropped months ago, so to anyone looking at that, the last update to the customers was November 6 2009. Either state somewhere it's a now unsupported project, or don't link to it - but it now looks weird that you point out 'hey, look, we've not been talking to people on this site for months!".
The 'Latest Update' takes you right back to the front news page .... not particularly helpful, since the contents there tend to swap between game info, patch/publish notes, adverts for the Stratics HOC, fiction... (and apparently Arirang is still down according to that page, I'd have though at some point since 24 Feb it might have been back in operation?).
There's a fair bit more there too that just looks, to be honest, amateur.... Layout is fine, content far less so, and style is NOT more important than substance. It's your shop window, and apparently the only way EA believes is worth using to advertise UO - and since it's being allowed to get by with ever lower standards and quality, should we assume that's the corporate attitude towards the game, or is it just something else that fell off Cal's radar?
It's not as if the HTML splash screen built into the client - which was expressly to help get important news to players, we were told that when it was introduced - is noticably much better, but at least that's only for those of us already addicted, so maybe you folks feel you can get away with less effort there. Your main website is important both to existing and potential new customers, there is no good excuse for letting that slip.....
