I wouldn't consider myself sad that AG3 is taking forever to complete. Actually, I'm quite glad that they don't appear to be making any progress on it. I'm in no rush at all for this entire community to just be erased and supposedly reset.
WUT? Where did you get that idea Ernie?! They won't reset the entire community... granted, some stuff needs to be changed compared to the current website, but they will transfer the profiles and their internal links (friends, fav games, abouts) to the new website! And they are working on a way to transfer the forums, allthough that job probably requires a complete think-tank as it is a landslide of data... (o.O)
What puzzles me most is that people are excited about it.
Why shouldn't they be?! I have to admit that -even though I'm one of those excited people- I too have some concerns about the new website and some features are not implemented or not to my personal liking, but hey... we can't all have it exactly the way we want it? Right?
(Some form of input would have been a sign of courtesy, allthough that would probably mail-flood AG-HQ! LOL)
So put me down for confident. Confident that AG3 will not be around for a very long time.
Check! Even though it actually smells/feels/looks like a proper 'sad' instead, I'll comply! =P
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Whats really disappointing me is that there no one that feel a lil bit responsible to throw out some informations, this lack of information (equal if there good or bad) is awfully bad.
Sadly... all of the users can agree upon this, even the ones that were confident on getting info before (read myself i.e.) have now lost hope and are a little bittered on the utter lack of information given to the AG community...
This lack of communication towards the very people that keep your website alive is a very bad thing (emphasise on very bad) and even if they would simply assign someone to it who would then post some information only once a month, it would be enough! There... got it off my chest... =)
A new AG-Community Manager... that thought must be born in one of your wildest dreams^^
Oh, if only you knew how wild my dreams actually are! This website would be different... VERY different! (o.0)
Ok. Now I can't even get to the beta site when I could a while back. Does that mean something? lol How do I get to the new site now?
The Beta website has been closed effectively on August 31, 2012. This was already announced on several occasions in several threads, including Freakenstein who posted it on his profile. ;)
If you ask whether it means something... then yes! This is a sure sign of progress and shows that they are still working on the new coming AG3 website! (Short in-post message: don't go and simply say that this is only one sign, namely the one that the beta is now closed and nothing more... mm-kay?!)
As for getting to the Beta website, you can't... it is closed completely for open public testing and can't be accessed anymore right now.
The beta won't be re-opened again, probably because they have rounded up all the tests they wanted to try out, unless they have some extra/new stuff to test of course, but this is highly unlikely to happen! =)