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Cool! There's definitely a need for something like this. I played competitive Counter-Strike in my youth, and one thing that no one has successfully replaced wa

Cool! There's definitely a need for something like this. I played competitive Counter-Strike in my youth, and one thing that no one has successfully replaced was the vibrancy and engagement of the irc communities of the time. Griping: Massively unimpressed with the presentation and branding. Gaming has a ton of work to do to be considered a generally accessible and comfortable place for people of all form. In your hero image, two of your images show toxic commenting by people in the team channels and much of the wordage comes across brusque-y. ... "So tired of laning with bads"... ... "Map talk mittengard is terrible"... ... "Why do you want to join Rage Force?"... ... "You decide who makes the cut"... "Talent on the market"... Look at Discord for an example of capturing the fun, whimsical spirit of gaming and exploration. Guilded appears dark and intimidating. I am not at all encouraged to explore and my desire for play is far from stoked. In fact, this is the kind of energy that has sent me packing to the quiet confines of single-player gaming.

iEchoic 9y ago
> I played competitive Counter-Strike in my youth, and one thing that no one has successfully replaced was the vibrancy and engagement of the irc communities of the time. Yeah, a site called Gamebattles was the closest for me back in the day. I haven't found anything else that's captured that feeling yet, as they've largely died off. About the screenshots, we threw together those as parodies a long time ago and haven't gotten any feedback about them so I thought nobody read them, heh. I agree that the landing page copy could use another pass, thanks for the feedback.
- goodroot 9y ago
  Cool. :) Apologies for leaning into the negative aspects; the site struck a cord. I'm deeply, deeply passionate about gaming. I think they need a loving, gentle-touch and less of the hyper-masculine spirals of darkness. May you use your powers of community forming to nurture comprehensive and accepting goodness and less in stoking the truly boring, raging fires of gaming negativity and elitism.
  - iEchoic 9y ago
    I totally agree. If you get a chance to try it out, let me know if you see anything else that gives that vibe. If anything, I've been wondering if the cute knight avatars everywhere and the bubbly GuildedBot dialogue make it a little bit too "cute" in contrast with the games' atmosphere, so I think the quoted sentences are just out-of-sync with the rest of the branding.
- mipmap04 9y ago
  On the topic of the copy, as a former super competitive gamer / now super casual gaming dad, it definitely sent signals to me that this isn't a service for a casual gamer. Food for thought. Great site otherwise though! Looks excellent.
hfourm 9y ago
Honestly, I imagine recreating the IRC community of CS is never going to happen again -- also there are a bit of rose colored glasses here. While it was obviously great, the majority of it was just idling in team channels and looking for group/pug/team channels. It was very centralized to IRC and needed then, but better "services" have come along and handle these problems much better, ie: ESEA, reddit, etc. A lot of these communities have come full circle now with discord being popular, and for many games you can find discord servers that emulate some of the CS IRC experiences of the past.

iEchoic 9y ago

> I played competitive Counter-Strike in my youth, and one thing that no one has successfully replaced was the vibrancy and engagement of the irc communities of the time. Yeah, a site called Gamebattles was the closest for me back in the day. I haven't found anything else that's captured that feeling yet, as they've largely died off. About the screenshots, we threw together those as parodies a long time ago and haven't gotten any feedback about them so I thought nobody read them, heh. I agree that the landing page copy could use another pass, thanks for the feedback.

goodroot 9y ago
Cool. :) Apologies for leaning into the negative aspects; the site struck a cord. I'm deeply, deeply passionate about gaming. I think they need a loving, gentle-touch and less of the hyper-masculine spirals of darkness. May you use your powers of community forming to nurture comprehensive and accepting goodness and less in stoking the truly boring, raging fires of gaming negativity and elitism.
- iEchoic 9y ago
  I totally agree. If you get a chance to try it out, let me know if you see anything else that gives that vibe. If anything, I've been wondering if the cute knight avatars everywhere and the bubbly GuildedBot dialogue make it a little bit too "cute" in contrast with the games' atmosphere, so I think the quoted sentences are just out-of-sync with the rest of the branding.
mipmap04 9y ago
On the topic of the copy, as a former super competitive gamer / now super casual gaming dad, it definitely sent signals to me that this isn't a service for a casual gamer. Food for thought. Great site otherwise though! Looks excellent.

hfourm 9y ago

Honestly, I imagine recreating the IRC community of CS is never going to happen again -- also there are a bit of rose colored glasses here. While it was obviously great, the majority of it was just idling in team channels and looking for group/pug/team channels. It was very centralized to IRC and needed then, but better "services" have come along and handle these problems much better, ie: ESEA, reddit, etc. A lot of these communities have come full circle now with discord being popular, and for many games you can find discord servers that emulate some of the CS IRC experiences of the past.