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.

Well then lets talk about 3.0 because I still don't support that.

Here's my idea:

As that is important to you, then it may well be a good time to sound the community out about it, you should start a thread - see what people think, there may be amendments that could be made now that will benefit everybody.

Ever heard of the phrase 'nipping in the bud'?

I don't think so he "dosent have the stones"

While I have to agree that WL is fundamentally Fizzer's game and he can do what he wants with it (some really good things, I might add), but I might suggest that we first have a survey with a list of four or five names to choose from.

I can't say I'm a fan of the new title, although I won't quit playing. Fizzer makes a good point that change is at first offputting, but I think it might make some sense for the community to have a say in the new name of the game in addition to its new logo.

Just my two cents :)

ARC

Edited 1/29/2015 03:12:11

ok i think i was wrong

orange def won

I totally understand your reactions and desire to stay with the same name. Change is difficult, and this site will continue feeling like "WarLight" for a long time to come. However, that feeling will eventually pass.

First off, to those citing that "Googling Warzone doesn't find us" -- trust me, it will. I expect that, eventually, Googling for Warzone will return us as the top link and also be filled with links about us across the first page. If this doesn't happen for some reason, we'd definitely fix it.

A lot of the challenge in picking names has to do with domain names, too. Acquiring domain names is not easy. We tried really hard to acquire warlight.com but the owner would not sell it to us.

We talked a lot about doing some sort of survey or involving the community in the name change. However, if we ran a poll, it would tip off the owners of those domains what we plan to use them for and make negotiations more difficult. We were able to negotiate get a great deal on warzone.com, which was one of our top choices, so we jumped on it.

Really, the biggest motivation in changing the name is because "Warlight" is such an odd word. My experience has been that most people, when hearing it for the first time, don't even understand what they heard. And even if they do, they never know how to spell it. Warzone is much easier to recognize since it's an actual english word.

Lol welp I'm done with this site, first the new fustercluck dashboard and now this. Byyyyeeeeee.

Yo fizz respond to my messages