TekDragon
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@TekDragon: That is strange. I have no idea why you can't get in, but there's a lot of people there. As Lurker says, there's been quite a few bugs in Aftershock, but most people seems to enjoy the game besides that. Not everyone of course, but the majority.
@Lurker: You can read what a Troll is here. And trust me, the warnings given at the official boards counts here as well. I'll leave your post for now, but you are going to link to the post at the official boards where someone calls you stupid. I am sick and tired of seeing these statements and no evidence.
As for the moderators deleting posts and so on at the official boards a year ago, that is bull. The only posts we edit/delete are the ones where people say "I'll download the game from ****" and the likes. The official boards are one of the most liberal boards you'll ever find.
My experience with the official forums has been good prior to this incident, so I won't comment on the nazism.
As for the problems i'm having - my location is Binghamton NY and my ISP is RoadRunner which is very popular in the NE. Slaughter, could you send a message to one of the people who run the site and let them know that there is a problem with their website being views in areas of NE USA that is, at the least, delaying peoples' decision to purchase the game?
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The official forums has been up the entire time. You can find the official Aftershock site here, and the forums here. As for the moderators, I am one of them
. It's a very liberal forum, and no critique is removed or stopped unless people "Troll".As for the reactions to the game, they seem fairly positive. Problem is that the game has a lot of bugs, and as you say, the StarForce. It hasn't created that much trouble for people, but many will not buy the game because of it.
Yep, and for the past few days every time I try to access that forum I get:
"Connecting to forum.ufo-aftermath.com..."
"Waiting for forum.ufo-aftermath.com..."
... at the bottom of my screen. Then a window pops up that says:
"This document contains no data"
This is happening on my PC as well as the ones at my university.
BTW: That is on firefox.
On IE I get:
Opening page https://forum.ufo-aftermath.com/index.php?showforum=7
followed by "The page cannot be displayed"
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In the weeks to the run-up of Aftershock I was visiting the official forums regularly to check up on news. Then, as soon as the game was released, I couldn't access the official forums anymore.
This strikes me as being EXTREMELY fishy. The official forums are one of the primary places for people to list their praises and complaints with the game. The fact that they took it down suggests, to me, that they do not want their prospective customers seeing what people have to say about the game.
I was already worried about buying a game with StarForce. I was already worried about buying a game from a low profile Czech/German developer. Now that they've basically said "Our game sucks so bad, we don't want you to see what people have to say about it" - i'm going to have to give in to my fears and not order this game that i've been so hyped about for weeks and months.
If the Official Forums come back up and either:
a) Aren't flooded with complaints (likely with StarForce, but maybe from other critical bugs in the game)
b) Aren't Nazi moderated (ie: deletion of all complaint threads and banning of anyone critical of UFO: AS)
Then I might change my mind.
Problem connecting to Official Forums
in UFO: Aftershock
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Sorry for jumping to conclusions that Altar had closed their forums to prevent bad publicity in the last post. It seems the problem is an isolated one that, at the least, extends to my home as well as my university a few miles away.
I can reach both of those pages fine.
When I do the ping here is the results:
Pinging forum.ufo-aftermath.com [207.44.240.82] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
At this point the command window shuts down.
I have tried shutting down my software firewall (not the one in my Linksys Router) and tried both IE and Firefox.