change name = bad idea

I think whenever something's name changes, it's off-putting at first. It feels strange since we're so used to the old name, and the other one is new. After a few months, the new one will feel natural.

Even after the name change, I'm sticking with WarLight. But as for the logo, I'll give that a try.

Edited 1/29/2015 02:19:13

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Edited 1/29/2015 02:12:45

Once again, you prove to be a disappointment to all of us. God dammit man, your making this game fucking shit, and ban me if you will for the profanity, but I will not take this anymore. Now will someone with Uervoice points make a topic to keep this called Warlight? He changed the logo, the entire layout with the dash, hes re branding alright, and trying to push us out with it. He wont even respond because he's lost his balls, I'm growing weary, this game is not as it was, as it should be, a game by the gamers, for the gamers. Thank you Fizzer, I am now contemplating retirement from this game, it isn't the same game I paid $30 to support anymore.

Also would not the name WARSPACE be cooler.

Edited 1/29/2015 02:22:25

here's my idea for a new logo

kill yourself

It's not going to win, but hopefully it will spark some ideas.

I can make the White Transparent by changing the file type to a .gif, but I'll do that for a more "final" version.

I think this is probably the final push. I'm actually done with this game :I

Well, not completely, I'll finish out my final 4 games, but I'm actually done.

Put me in the 'don't change the name' camp.

You own warlight on google. You'll never own warzone. Competing with established games, apps, movies, and even the very common phrase 'war zone'.

How about, we design a better warlight logo and you go with that? :D

Lawlz and Julius... are you trying to convince people to be in favor of this change? I mean, promising to leave should the name change proceed is a pretty good endorsement for leaving the name Warlight behind

I'll be honest, Fizz.

I don't like this. I don't see much need to change, but if your mind is made up, at least let us give suggestions for new names...

Among the other problems raised here, it touches a nerve with me.
Reminds me of ZapZone. Running around as a kid, shooting other kids with 'lasers'.
Warzone? eugh. It just sounds juvenile.
Sort of a 'no girls allowed' feeling.

I emplore you to reconsider.

Sincerely, Gror.

Edited 1/29/2015 02:41:28

I can't find how this game fits into a zone, although I've also noticed that the site has been pushing itself much more as a play risk online type game now, as long as I can still log on via warlight.net, I'm not going to care and probably forget that the name changed.

oh honestly just fuck off Richard, you contribute nothing more than sarcasm and a cynical attitude to this game, I am a contributing member of this community. I rarely launch off like this. I can't stand to see the game I love fall apart around me.

Lawlz and Julius... are you trying to convince people to be in favor of this change? I mean, promising to leave should the name change proceed is a pretty good endorsement for leaving the name Warlight behind

It's not entirely the name change, I've been halfway out the door already.

I hope Fizzy can see the Light.

The new name makes more sense as the old one. It also sounds less gay then war"light". :)
I cant think of a better sounding name as "Zone" for the place we are waging war in.

Edit: I made my logo in Inkscape, so it is easy to modify or extract the "W" and the "Z" out of it for a small icon/(clan)logo. Also, if someone want to make a map out of it than that wont be a problem too.

Edited 1/29/2015 12:47:20

I don't particularly like the name either - but then "Warlight" isn't that attractive either - we're just used to it. Thankfully, it's not the name, nor the logo that make this game what it is - it is the community, and I think we should all try to be a little supportive to what Fizzer is trying to do.

It's always difficult to tell, when faced with change, whether we are responding instinctively towards the change, because change is an unsettling experience, or whether the fabric of the changes are actually unpleasant. In my experience it is almost always the first, and it is an important lesson if you wish to grow and develop anything; whether a business or a social group, or your own persona, to always give change a fair run.

It is of course important to be pragmatic about changes you wish to implement, to ensure that you have the best chance of getting the change to achieve something positive and to make it stick, and I'm sure Fizzer has considered his options. At the moment, the community's knee-jerk reaction to recent change has been derision, threats and denial - these are natural reactions to the change process, but I implore you for a while to keep these reactions to yourself, and see what happens in the course of time. If after a month or two, you still don't like the change, then that is the time to open up a discussion about it.

These reactions will cause genuine needs for change being voiced by the community to be ignored, as either inertia draws all future development to a stop, or because it becomes impossible to discern between useful suggestion and rhetoric.