Firaxis.com

[H Tower]

On firaxis's main site, firaxis.com, right under the link to the "temporary" civ3 site, it says "official site now online!"
so naturally i clicked on the picture, it takes me to the site we've all grown to know and pray about an update of. The next step i tried was www.civ3.com, its still not up. am i missing something here or has firaxis dropped the ball (again)?

[MarkG]

the "official site now online!" thing is there since firaxis.com/civ3 opened.....

[H Tower]

Originally posted by MarkG
the "official site now online!" thing is there since firaxis.com/civ3 opened.....

oops

shouldn't that now mean that they have the civ3.com site up though?

[Fidel]

no, it simply means that they do not intend to put 1/1000000 of the effort put into sites like MOO3 or blizzard. honestly, i feel like a jackass every morning i try their website out. man, it has been 2 1/2 months since the last update. we stopped even 'fuzzy math' calculations as to when the update will be posted.....

[campmajor!]

Apparently Firaxis' idea of having a website is that you put a site on the net and never look at it again...

But they should keep it up to date!

[Jeje2]

Campmajor: You are propably right about updaing the site on a never-basis.

I just surfed around Firaxis site and came to page: http://www.firaxis.com/mailing_list.cfm. To my supprise I am able to subscribe to the Dino Diary newsletter. (Didn't test it, since I subscribed it back then already.) IIRC Dino project was buried a while ago or are they now working on three titles?

[Rommel393]

Nothing has been heard from firaxis for quite a while. The only good thing this means is that they are working hard on civ3.... no doubt to get the game out before the end of the year or maybe they are already behind schedule. EIther way, they should at least assign 1 or 2 people to the site for a few days so as to keep their fans interested. Nevertheless, I'm also pretty damn frustrated. :banned:

[Inverse Icarus]

ever hear of a gag-contract?

i still think they're all playing civ 3.

HEY MAYBE THEY'RE RE-DOING THE WHOLE DAMN ULGY ASS TERRAIN.

nah. its firaxis we're talking about.

silly me.

you know what u doing take off every sid.

[KrazyHorse]

all your TBS's...

*clamps hand over mouth before he can complete sentence*

[DarkCloud]

...Firaxis needs a public relations manager

[CivPatriot]

more like a whole PR department....

I just think that it is sad that they have shown so little interest in keeping us up to date(not even with a offical game web site), another reason to be a pessimest.

[Sabre2th]

Keep in mind that Firaxis is a small company, probably without a lot of money. While I'd like to have more information, I can understand why we don't have it.

Also -- MarkG just posted a thread called "Firaxis Shall Speak"

Hopefully this is as good as it sounds. Maybe the new Civ3 site is up, with pages and pages of new info!

[death_head]

I'll be their PR manager!

Observe:

GO HOME, PEOPLE, THERE'S NOTHING TO SEE HERE.

Like that would work against an angry mob of Civers

[Sabre2th]

LOL death_head. The civers would probably hang you for getting in their way.

[yin26]

Kelley Gilmore, Communications Manager
Kelley comes to us with 15 years of marketing experience in a variety of industries - computer gaming, hi-tech, entertainment, sports, health care and publishing. Just prior to joining FIRAXIS in November 1999, she was a partner in KGMCommunications, Inc., a public relations agency dedicated to the hi-tech industry. The company worked with such clients as Sierra, WON.net, NetMarket Services, IVI Publishing and WatchGuard Technologies. Kelley manages our public relations effort and gladly accepts bribes in the form of cash and stunning gifts.

Gentlemen. They already have a someone who 'manages our public relations effort.' Then again, they also have a Web Wizard.