Also if you've been playing this game for more than a year, it should be plenty obvious to you that Fizzer's actions just aren't consistent with a predatory monetization strategy. More and more of the game becomes free-to-play over time and 99% of the experience you'd probably have after a membership is available without a single cent spent.

Unity is great, as soon as the loading times are diminished y'all probably will probably agree.

1) this has been rehashed many times over many years, old topic.

2) who cares? I would not care if the site was called "Master of the Dead's beat down blood bath.com" i would still play it

"Master of the Dead's beat down blood bath.com"

+1 ;)

@TheRiverStyxie
Tell me, who in this thread is talking about the engine change? This is about the name change explicitly.

"quick to criticise and never offer a solution"
Are you serious? I all of your responses to criticism of the patch, you only ever talked about the change to unity. Of course there are people who dislike this change aswell - and you might be right that there are people who deserve such responses, but that is definitely not us.

This is a straw man, not helpful in any way. Get out of this thread if you are not interested in contributing.

Edited 11/16/2017 16:35:19

It would be far more accurate lmao

What's wrong with the name? If you hated it why didn't you say something back in 2015, when this was first announced?
Y'all are just being idiots if this is just about the name change. Still the same game, it's just preparing to be moved away from old outdated platforms.

The biggest publicly-traded company in the world is named after some guy's favorite fruit. It's trailed by a company named by someone with really fond memories of kindergarten, a company whose name is two random prefixes joined together, and some rainforest shipping company.

All 4 of those names- Apple, Alphabet/Google (whose biggest competitors over the years have been named Yahoo! after a crazy-person yell and Bing after the sound a toaster makes), Microsoft, and Amazon (formerly Cadabra- renamed just so they'd be higher up in alphabetically-ordered lists)- are household names now that kind of roll off the tongue. The most hyped companies of the past decade have been named "Uber" (not sure if that was decided on by a drunk frat bro or some neo-Nazi who'd just picked up Nietzsche) and "Alibaba" (with no better reason than "everyone knows Ali Baba"). And what the actual fuck is an Exxon or a Mobil? Exxon is only even named Exxon because they got the pants sued off of them for the name they originally wanted (Esso- not a good name either).

I don't think you can intrinsically tell what's a good vs. a bad name for a company. Or at the very least it's subjective- if I saw an app named "RiskWars" in the store, I'd assume it was a Chinese Clash Royale knock-off targeting five-year-olds. And clearly, companies don't succeed or fail based on their name or even the colors they pick for their UI (Amazon's UI is ugly but it works).

Games especially have weird names. My friend tried to create a League club in high school and the principal shut it down thinking it was a white supremacist organization. Try telling your friends you play "Defense of the Ancients 2" ("Defense of the Ancients 1" is actually just a map from a game called... "World of Warcraft"). I remember growing up and playing a lot of Pocket Monsters Emerald Version.

I'm pretty sure every time I talk about a video game I play to someone who doesn't already know about it, they get the urge to punch me in the face just because of how weird the name is.

And it's not even just names. English words themselves are so weird. Where the fuck does "faucet" come from? The more you think about words like that, the less sense it makes. Or city/place names- you're telling me that the most important city in the world is named "New York City" when no one knows or cares about old York city? And that the two baseball teams in a city called "The Angels" but in Spanish are... The The Angels Angels (formerly of a placed called "Anne Home") and The Angels Dodgers? What are they even dodging? And I don't remember any lakes in LA, but I guess they couldn't go with the "LA Beaches" (or at least reserve it for WNBA).

Names are the stupidest thing to get up in arms over. Warzone is at the very least no sillier than Warlight.

Edited 11/16/2017 17:00:43

Lakers were originally from Minnesota. Yorkies, I imagine, care about York. "Warzone" might be misleading is all.

EDIT: faucet could be a word of french origin maybe

Edited 11/16/2017 17:24:31

@Cloud: Correct on the Lakers, plus New York was named after the Duke of York who initially seized the area from the Dutch. And yep faucet does come from Provencal via French. But:


My point is that names often come for weird places with convoluted reasoning (my guess at which you can find in my first comment on this thread), and they're going to be interpreted differently by different people. Give it 3 months tops and Warzone is gonna feel as natural a name as Warlight. Plus who even puts the words "war" and "light" together? Warzone if anything makes more sense than Warlight. Names are generally just inconsequential.

Edited 11/16/2017 18:03:33

If you hated it why didn't you say something back in 2015, when this was first announced?

were you on WL on 2015? everyone hated this. we hoped Fizzer quietly abandoned the idea.

Edited 11/18/2017 21:05:18

Yeah, I told him this many many times in his threads...
I never saw anyone in favor of this new name.

I am a 100% certain there would have been a better one.

Actually if you go back to his thread there were many of us who were very supportive of the necessity to rebrand. One of the main reasons Fizzer needed to rebrand was due to the fact warlight.com was owned by someone who would never give him the domain no matter the offer. I think yes, a better name probably does exist, but it's pretty inconsequential. If this is the domain name that Fizzer and his investor(s?) trust can do well then it's the right one. I think you're being way too nostalgic of a name that held relatively no meaning. This is coming from someone who started the game back in 2011. I don't feel nostalgic at all about the name. I feel nostalgic about the experiences I've had on the site, and Fizzer can't take that away.

Warlight was a cheesy name, named after the software used to run it. Warzone although a stupid name will reach a wider audience. Personally I think Warlight and Warzone are stupid names but warzone is easier to remember. Its a good move changing the name, well done Fizzer