RaGEZONE Evolving...

Hey peeps!

I made this thread coz I and others can see ragezone is... dying.. its been the same since the birth of ragezone, its been only a forum and thats about it, I just suggested to MentaL if we should make a ragezone website, which includes game reviews, previews news and many many features, something like gamespy, yes it would take a lot of free time, but if 5 people work on the site and seperate the sections for each person it would be up-2-date within mins, this is MentaL's chance to start a bussines and evolve from ragezone forums

Please vote yes or no, RaGEZONE cant go on like this...

why would any1 want to vote no o.O

ask MentaL that...

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Originally Posted by Sipher

ask MentaL that...

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well, i dont think he can afford it atm can he? so from his point of view it has 2 be no

it cant be setup now anyways, we need to set the layout etc will take at least 2 weeks...

I think it's a silly question :P If anything it would be wise to evolve, not to stay still and of course you can never go back :P Going back would mean mir2, and that aint happening, so push toward the future I suppose.

i say evolve and spice up the stuff here,
though if it does go in the direction as gamespy, eventually we would have to get rid of all of the "Illegal" server development stuff here, which would defeat the purpose of RZ today

NoPeace - out

I would love to help out with writing reviews n stuff.... But my own site is kinda my priority at the mo but i could always find time to work on an RZ site :good:

Ragezone could easily become like IGN, I remember IGN in the oldy days... Just a website for cheat codes and a forum.

I voted yes aslong as it doesn't become another gamespy.

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Originally Posted by iod

I voted yes aslong as it doesn't become another gamespy.

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totall agreed with this :D

YePO I agree, and because of the community we already have, its kinda like a headstart!

yeap, i agree, good idea, id love to do reviews for the FPS's :P

id be up for it

whats the welshman say?

yea i would be up for it too

yeah ill be glad if RAGEZONE evolves :D

you always gotta do your best in everything... so.. this is the chance for RZ.
community is already here... just gotta bring te advertisers and a hell lot more ppl..

voted yes, tho i'm not sure if that wot's going 2 make RZ back to live =\ anyways it's a nice idea.

only thing i see in my opinion that would put RZ back to life it would b the serious hosting of a mmorpg, any kind tbh but serious not something that dies after 1week.

well we have 22 votes on yes, and 2 on no... think mental voted no lol, erm now its up to MentaL to decide, and thank you all for your support :) I love u guys really!!

not fussed really up to mental

i said no, if ragezone gets any bigger it wont be possible to host it at all, and anyway i think all good things must come to an end, looks like this place's is nearing

Go Away


I Think It'd Be A Good Idea TBH

not fussed tbh. dont use ragezone much. but if u want a site then its up 2 u lot i guess

i fink its a sound idea!

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Originally Posted by Tai

not fussed tbh. dont use ragezone much. but if u want a site then its up 2 u lot i guess

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Think to be honest this sums up the "normal" people on here - at end of Day its 100% down to Mental if he want to continue providing RZ or let it die. All of us would like to run a web site that makes money but when there is LOTS of sites out there that provide it for free, then its a uphill struggle to be honest.

Pop Up as said - wont work, SP2 comes with a pop up blocker and most people have one installed anyhow (such as Google bar). Its a bit like a P Server trying to ask for donations, people always quote they cannot pay (too young) or they need to see something before they pay for it.

Maybe get writing some Utils for the MMORPG's out there and sell them here, a few ideas off hand include:

Autoupdater that uses web site instead of FTP.
Log File checker with nice fancy options
ASP/PHP Pages for stats etc

Plus any others you can think of really - maybe have a section that only people who pay a sub (built into VB3 by the way) can view - so if you want better info/files then this is the way to go i think..

Sounds like some of you peeps cant wait for RZ to close down.

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Originally Posted by compteq

Sounds like some of you peeps cant wait for RZ to close down.

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Well on my post - No i never meant to sound like that but the facts that are presented are this:

Mental cannot afford to pay $160 a month for his dedicated box. I suggested move forum to a web host which would cost a lot less but got told RZ was so large it could not possibly fit on a web hosting box. I suggested somewhere that the threads and users be pruned (thus shrinking the database size) and then it would fit on a web hosting service....

Keep seeing posts like "its def gonna shut down if people dont pay" - my point was if Metal cannot afford to host RZ - then unless the people find a reason to fork out money to save RZ for one extra month each time, it likes a ticking time bomb, what month will Metnal finally run out of cash and RZ will die anyhow as he has stated quite plainly, RZ will NEVER move to a different host - so to be honest people already packing there bags.

Hope that epxlains my view anyhow.