Civfanatics, Apolyton and Firaxis.

[georges bonbon]

Looking back at announcements about Conquests for the last weeks, I am under the impression that Firaxis considers Civfanatics as a preferred supplier for information to Apolyton.

Firaxis people are more active on Civfanatics than Apolyton boards.

Is this a correct impression?

If so, why?

[dojoboy]

Well, if it was to be true, its probably due to Civfanatics being geared toward the Civilization series primarily while Apolyton appeals to more strategy games in general.

[FrustratedPoet]

I think dojoboy has it about right. For example, we got all kinds of cool news and interviews from the developers of GalCiv and Rise of Nations, which CivFanatics don't even cover.

/edit: we also had several Call to Power developers posting here a lot (one still does).

[grappleman]

yeah, i agree with you guys on that one. Especially as of late. Civfanatics has gotten the release of governments and several other categories of information over the last few days. But good point by dojoboy, apolyton is more geared towards strategy games in general.

[Theseus]

P*sses me off.

[TechWins]

I know for sure that before the release of Civ3 that there were a lot more Firaxians posting here at Poly than over at CFC. Then after the release a lot Poly people had some mean stuff to say to Firaxians. Firaxians got upset and decided not to post as much here instead over at CFC. That's basically what happened.

[alva]

Then after the release a lot Poly people had some mean stuff to say to Firaxians.

???
Could you link some threads?

[FrustratedPoet]

Try a search for "culture flipping", "collector's edition" and "robust editor", that should be a good place to start.

(we really did get screwed on the editor thing IMHO .. not that that makes Firaxis bad people or anything)

[FrustratedPoet]

It seems reasonable to suggest that it was all Infogrames' fault anyway, but what the hell...

[alva]

Try a search for "culture flipping", "collector's edition" and "robust editor", that should be a good place to start.

Ahh, but nothing recently?

Soren still browses from time to time though

[FrustratedPoet]

No I haven't seen anything recently. A few months after Civ3 came out all the whingers left. There was some harsh criticism (again, mostly justified IMHO) about the implementation of MP in PTW after that came out, though.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by TechWins
I know for sure that before the release of Civ3 that there were a lot more Firaxians posting here at Poly than over at CFC. Then after the release a lot Poly people had some mean stuff to say to Firaxians. Firaxians got upset and decided not to post as much here instead over at CFC. That's basically what happened.

This was the impression I had. It looked to me that once people on Apolyton started turning up a considerable amount of heat, the Firaxis team got very frustrated and decided to go elsewhere. I can't say a blame them, considering a lot of the nasty, childish behavior from posters. Who wants to read the spiteful rants of the hour from Coracle all day?

[alva]

Coracle posts (posted?) at CFC too.

[WarpStorm]

Oh Coracle was on CFC also (under his alias).

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by FrustratedPoet
A few months after Civ3 came out all the whingers left.

That's a wee bit of an exaggeration. There were plenty of whingers around a lot longer than that.