DiscoverGuildWars.com.....Huh?

themesmeroftime

Academy Page

Join Date: Dec 2005

near philly

The Order of Sithis

Rt/

Searched and didn't find a similar topic.

http://www.discoverguildwars.com/

Apparently, a website about the Guild Wars campaigns was opened. And if I'm not mistaken, it looks like it was made by ArenaNet or NCSoft themselves

It is kind of an odd and random addition. The game has been out for years and this beginner-oriented site is launched by the creators all of a sudden. It boils down to a propaganda site for GW. One of those "Buy Guild Wars, do it for the team!" things. The site is pretty awesome with all the Flash stuff and moving objects - good design. Just thought I'd share what A-net's doing instead of fixing Ursan Blessing...just kidding (but not really).

Discuss...

RobTehUnknown

RobTehUnknown

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Aug 2007

W/

This looks purely fan made, imo

Two April Mornings

Two April Mornings

No Luck No Time No Money

Join Date: Nov 2005

Amherst College, MA

Scars Meadows [SMS]

Me/

That definitely does not look purely fan made, imo.

mr_groovy

mr_groovy

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2006

Netherlands

No Inherent Effect [NiE]

Quote:
Originally Posted by RobTehUnknown
This looks purely fan made, imo
bu ha ha ha If this is fan made, anet should hire them.

/facepalm

The content of the website I have seen before.

fRag_Doll

fRag_Doll

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2006

Australia

Prid of Ankh Morpork [Prid]

W/E

According to a whois.net search

Registrant:
NCsoft
6801 N. Captial of Texas Hwy
Bldg 1
Austin, TX 78731
US

Registrar: DOTSTER
Domain Name: DISCOVERGUILDWARS.COM
Created on: 07-FEB-07
Expires on: 07-FEB-09
Last Updated on: 11-JAN-08

Not fan made.

Randvek

Randvek

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2006

Rise From the Ashes [phnx]

W/

That is way, way, way too good for a fanmade site. I completely buy that whois.

Dallcingi

Dallcingi

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2006

USA

The Black Parades [死人死]

Mo/

I like the music! and yeah not fan made imo..

mazey vorstagg

mazey vorstagg

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2006

Nodnol

Meeting of Lost Minds

E/Mo

It's not fan made.

I've seen it a long time ago, a least a year. I think it was released when NF came out, as a kinda "show-off" site for new players wanting to find out what it's all about.

Zanhir Mitharis

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Feb 2007

Deaths Heroes

E/Me

if you notice on the bottom of the page it says "NC Soft Europe", this could be a euro site that hasn't gotten much attention due to the fact everyone googles guild wars... /eyepoke

EPO Bot

EPO Bot

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2006

Mo/N

Thats site once again reminds me of Anets incredible ability to render hotties.

KamikazeChicken

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2005

Mo/

That site should have been linked from their main site, imo.

Esan

Esan

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jul 2007

Wars

Quote:
Venture forth into the Battle Isles
Where battles are fought and heroes are born
Only the mighty will ascend into the Hall of Heroes
To fight for the Favor of the Gods
Ah, the good times!

MithranArkanere

MithranArkanere

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Nov 2006

wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigo

Heraldos de la Llama Oscura [HLO]

E/

It has been existing from a long time. But it seems that they are announcing it now. Maybe because they finished all the language translations.

Jecht Scye

Jecht Scye

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Dec 2005

Lucky Crickets[Luck]

N/Me

That site has been there a while, and it's owned by the devs. I once emailed Gaile about possibly posting the renders from that site on the Guildwars.com site and she replied telling me she'd try. The devs must've been busy though.

Pan Head

Pan Head

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Dec 2006

W/R

Quote:
Originally Posted by fRag_Doll
According to a whois.net search

Registrant:
NCsoft
6801 N. Captial of Texas Hwy
Bldg 1
Austin, TX 78731
US

Registrar: DOTSTER
Domain Name: DISCOVERGUILDWARS.COM
Created on: 07-FEB-07
Expires on: 07-FEB-09
Last Updated on: 11-JAN-08

Not fan made.
you got it in before i did.

looks official to me

Operative 14

Operative 14

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2006

Arizona, USA

[OOP] Order of the Phoenix I

That site's neater than the official one!

enter_the_zone

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Nov 2007

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by fRag_Doll
According to a whois.net search

Registrant:
NCsoft
6801 N. Captial of Texas Hwy
Bldg 1
Austin, TX 78731
US

Registrar: DOTSTER
Domain Name: DISCOVERGUILDWARS.COM
Created on: 07-FEB-07
Expires on: 07-FEB-09
Last Updated on: 11-JAN-08

Not fan made.
We immediately did exactly the same thing after reading the second post, didn't we?

Saraphim

Saraphim

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Mar 2006

The Hand of Omega [WHO]

E/

Almost made me want to play the game...


ischuros

ischuros

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2006

Ireland

N/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by Saraphim
Almost made me want to play the game...
And yet you post on fan forums. People might think you're trolling.

Numa Pompilius

Numa Pompilius

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: May 2005

At an Insit.. Intis... a house.

Live Forever Or Die Trying [GLHF]

W/Me

"You need to update your flash player to view this site"?

No... No, I don't think I will, in fact.

[email protected]

Academy Page

Join Date: Aug 2006

Order Of The Ghost Dragons [mist]

E/

the site is a european one...

going into the professions it takes you in to euro site proper...

Admael

Admael

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2005

California

Xen of Heroes

The loading bars are most nostalgic. I remember when the ingame bars use to be similar.

Willow O Whisper

Willow O Whisper

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: May 2007

Denmark

Knights Of The Sacred Light [KSL]

Me/A

Prophecies intro music..... How i miss those days.....

Ork Pride

Banned

Join Date: May 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by RobTehUnknown
This looks purely fan made, imo
Its copyrighted to NCSoft Europe...

Arden Kindlecorpse

Arden Kindlecorpse

Academy Page

Join Date: Apr 2007

East Coast, Australia

The Apologetti [Soz]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Willow O Whisper
Prophecies intro music..... How i miss those days.....
QFT

Funny how music can send you back in time so readily.

RobTehUnknown

RobTehUnknown

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Aug 2007

W/

idk and idc, this looks too fanmade to me

Kakumei

Kakumei

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jul 2005

Grind is subjective

learn this please

Quote:
Originally Posted by Numa Pompilius
"You need to update your flash player to view this site"?

No... No, I don't think I will, in fact.
Yeah, I like having an old version of Flash, too.

????

I D E L E T E D I

I D E L E T E D I

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2007

[BAAA] guest me NOW

Mo/

Nice Page. Didn't know about this one and i am enjoying looking through it

Thanks for posting

Saraphim

Saraphim

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Mar 2006

The Hand of Omega [WHO]

E/

Quote:
Originally Posted by ischuros
And yet you post on fan forums. People might think you're trolling.
Lol, people can think what they like.

But hey, if I have to make a serious post (!)

Not fan-made, way too much access to IP / copyright material even for a fan-site kit.
Personally I'm not a fan of flash sites anyway, I prefer my info quick and cross browser compatible (the main GW site doesn't work so well in Safari).
I've not seen it before, but then I hadn't been looking. It was nice to see some of the gameplay trailers again.

And no, I don't play as much as I used to. But I still enjoy the game when I do play... not that I actually have to justify myself to you or anyone else.

That enough?

mazza558

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Mar 2006

R/

On the main page (after the intro), hover over the GW:EN option and look at the map.

Looks like the aftermath of the flood of Kryta...

Mitchel

Mitchel

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jan 2007

Almkerk, The Netherlands

P/W

Nice music, that's what I'm playing atm while playing Guild Wars. It's amazing how far those Factions and Prophecies Character Selection Screen music takes you back.

Malice Black

Site Legend

Join Date: Oct 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Numa Pompilius
"You need to update your flash player to view this site"?

No... No, I don't think I will, in fact.
#

Unblock the site?

No script <3

Trub

Trub

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Mar 2006

Sitting in the guildhall, watching the wallows frolic.

Trinity of the ascended [SMS]+[Koss]+[TAM]=[ToA]

I saw a few [ZoS] capes in the screenies.....

Arduin

Arduin

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: May 2005

The Netherlands

Limburgse Jagers [LJ]

R/

Looks a bit like the stuff from the Nightfall Pre-Order disk.

Crunch

Academy Page

Join Date: Aug 2005

Mo/Me

i remember watching the "a new threat" movie before guildwars came out and thats what made me buy it

Numa Pompilius

Numa Pompilius

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: May 2005

At an Insit.. Intis... a house.

Live Forever Or Die Trying [GLHF]

W/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by Kakumei
Yeah, I like having an old version of Flash, too.
Oh, that's not it; I've got new flash installed, for those rare moments when I really want to see cheesy animations with dancing mouse pointers in the shape of a kitten, but I've also got flashblock precisely because I RED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GOing hate flash-only sites.

EDIT: Added link to flashblock, for the benefit of all mankind.

enxa

enxa

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2006

Novi Sad, Serbia

Rt/

I dont like all-flash sites. Though it really looks nice, its bloated and slow.
Also its trying to open pop-ups. Pop-ups must die!
But ill forgive them, only because they put the Factions login screen music in there!

Oh now i imagine myself sitting on a terrace on a mountain, overlooking rice fields, and enjoying a cup of tea with this music...

Inde

Site Contributor

Join Date: Dec 2004

It's ArenaNet, an old site. I remember it from quite a while back as well.

Buster

Buster

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jan 2006

Elona

Clan Eternal Legion

D/W

Not an old site. I just launched yesterday Here is the article.

http://www.warcry.com/news/view/8275...Sites-Launched

Free Runner

Free Runner

Forge Runner

Join Date: Oct 2005

GW2G

Knights Of The Sacred Light [KSL]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Buster
Not an old site. I just launched yesterday Here is the article.

http://www.warcry.com/news/view/8275...Sites-Launched
Not sure whats going on with the article however this has been around at least since Nightfall. The last time i saw this it only had Prophecies,Factions and Nightfall on it.