This is not really the place for this

There are ideas there from 2010 that also look very popular. It makes me doubt how Fizzer really treats Uservoice like we would expect him to.
The forums are also a place for our voices to be heard. Fizzer should be checking these forums on a very regular basis so he WILL see these messages and have to read through them. So yes, this is also a place for this.

Edited 3/6/2015 18:49:01

I'm quite certain Fizzer is looking for the best return on investment of his time and effort into Warlight. Not all ideas are going to be equally attainable as I'm sure a major code rewrite would be required for several of them. keeping the same name is very low investment we just need to convince him of the value and while posting let's him know what some people want it's not easily quantifiable.

He's well aware that there are people that don't like this change. A "petition" which this post claims to be doesn't work well in forums, hence "not really the place for this". So do it someplace that is well designed for petitions. If you just want a place to blow off steam and let Fizzer know that you personally are against it then this is the appropriate place. If you want a petition then vote.

http://warlight.uservoice.com/forums/77051-warlight-features/suggestions/7178774-i-would-like-to-see-the-name-stay-warlight

There are ideas there from 2010 that also look very popular. It makes me doubt how Fizzer really treats Uservoice like we would expect him to.
The forums are also a place for our voices to be heard. Fizzer should be checking these forums on a very regular basis so he WILL see these messages and have to read through them. So yes, this is also a place for this.

Yes, but keep in mind this was/is a hobby for him. He has another job. It is much easier to find a problem than fix it. I think some would be easy, but others not, even if popular.

Edited 3/6/2015 19:31:43

I dont believe a name change is good, it takes away from the identity of the game in my opinion.

Honestly l think the name change is good. It gets rid of the light, making it look like just another start up beta. And warzone sounds a lot more professional. Someone asks fizzed what he's done for the past few years he can say, oh yeah heard of the game warzone? But that's just the humble opinion of a hermit

How is Warzone "professional" ? I am curious Hermit.

The chief argument is that Warlight as a name is unique and has a lot of history attached to it. And in an earlier thread it was argued that Warzone was a lot more generic.

Edited 3/7/2015 05:42:09

All those "coding this is so damn hard"...

How is (for example) being allowed to change your name every twenty days hard?

How is (for example) being allowed to change your name every twenty days hard?

Before this use to happen; it was added in Beta phrase 3: now you have to buy name changes.

Edited 3/7/2015 08:23:14

exactly

My two cents:

"warzone" is a problematic name in terms of search engine rankings. Search engines make a distinction between queries with dominant and common interpretations. There are many things called warzone, so a search engine will list results associated with all types of entities sharing that name (whatever they are) when the users issues the query "warzone". That is because it can't tell right away what the user was looking for. There are many many entities like bands, other games, similar sounding video / flash games, a table top game and so on.

With warlight this is different because this website is the dominant interpretation and will always get first place in the search results. (I've worked in this field for years, I know what I am talking about). It is unlikely that in the future this site will become the dominant interpretation for "warzone" because it a very generic term.

I don't care much for the name change as such, but considering this, changing to "warzone" definitely has this disadvantage.

WARZONE is soooo lame

god, please, don't let it happen

ok, let the name change

but why the new one has to be so stupid

even noobs would cry

WARZONE?

Why change something that is working fine? You are getting clicks and people are playing the game. Changing the name might make it harder to find? I don't know I think Warzone sounds like shit. Its to cliche and sounds really nerdy.

sounds generic to me, and will be easily forgotten.

Fizzer, you behave as you were the smartest guy on the world....

so many people states that this new name is ridicoulus and still you wont change your mind...

thats unreasnable. People for whom the name "warzone" would seem attractive, wont be a reasonable players - in fact you will only atract a bunch of noobs that will play few games and then leave (by being booted of course) because "it is too hard for them". The poblem is that meanwhile the quality of gaming experience for us will deteriorate as even more games will end up broken because of new players that have joined and abandoned them after few turns. If you want to make money you have to built the name that will be unique and intriguing, which will allow it to spread through internet. Warzone surely isnt unique, and I am preety sure that most of this noobs that will get "caught" by this marketing trick will quickly forget that name. And what is more - such stupid name will surelly scary many reasonable players from trying to play this game.

And for all those peple taht state that we sholdin whine because the name change - consider the situation that you are the big fun of rock band that is called for instance "Atom Smasher" How would you react if one day the leader of your beloved band has stated that due to the economic reasons the band is changing the name to "Justin Beibers" or "Dicksuckers". I'd protest

Adding my name to the petition in honor of Queefballs

With warlight this is different because this website is the dominant interpretation and will always get first place in the search results. (I've worked in this field for years, I know what I am talking about). It is unlikely that in the future this site will become the dominant interpretation for "warzone" because it a very generic term.

I would love for you to prove how you've worked in the field of search engines for years and yet understand almost nothing of them. Getting rank 1 on the search engine has little to do with how 'generic' your business' name is. I've never worked in that field but some simple logic comes into play. If your assessment is true, then businesses with generic names would have trouble being search optimized. This is false though, successful businesses with generic names are search optimized. This tells me that popularity, or just simply money comes into play. This site runs Google ads and has a lot of traffic vs any other business running the same sort of name. Therefore once the switch is done, it will automatically beat out all of its competitors because Google makes more money by having the business top searches. It's how Google's business works so well. I've never dealt with this part of the business directly, but it's all logically easy to figure out.

So I pose a question to you:

Why wouldn't 'Warzone' top searches if it has higher traffic than any other business shopping 'Warzone' and stands to make Google more money due to 'Warzone' hosting Google ads?

Getting rank 1 on the search engine has little to do with how 'generic' your business' name is

that is not what he meant, hes saying that there are many other things (games included) with the generic name 'warzone', and that it would be a hell of a lot harder to rank #1 in search engine queries based on that fact alone.

Why don't you actually read my post before trying to make me repeat myself?

Why don't you actually read my post before trying to make me repeat myself?