Posted on Jan 25, 2010 at 12:00pm
As many have already noticed we have taken our high score and game sharing service offline temporarily. We are doing some database upgrades and are hoping to have it back up soon. We appreciate you patience and will keep you posted on the upgrade process.
Matty360 says:
Posted at 3:56pm on 1/25/2010
OMG high score updating thingy!
I hope it will be good.
XVERB says:
Posted at 7:26pm on 1/25/2010
i bet it no different.. surprise me
2014631 says:
Posted at 8:03pm on 1/25/2010
COOL! I hope it'll be like the top 250 instead of 100, or they add week leaders and daily leaders. That would rule
lukaspukas says:
Posted at 11:41am on 1/26/2010
New system? I would love if you like added some special stuff or avatars for those who get to to 100 or 250
gameman22 says:
Posted at 5:18pm on 2/3/2010
that would be awsome
Dannydaninja says:
Posted at 11:38pm on 1/26/2010
If you did actaully add special stuff + acheivements and Armatars for those who get in top 250 it will = Hacking!
2014631 says:
Posted at 12:09am on 1/27/2010
*Sigh. I always hope for something, but once again, they didn't change ANYTHING. Darn it.
Gando says:
Posted at 7:49am on 1/28/2010
I appreciate "you" use of grammar + spellcheck when posting announcements.
<3
gameman22 says:
Posted at 5:20pm on 2/3/2010
dork who cares
666d3VIL says:
Posted at 4:21am on 1/29/2010
I hope it will good
Ernie15 says:
Posted at 8:23pm on 1/29/2010
I miss the CTC sharing service. :(
CourtJester says:
Posted at 12:03am on 1/30/2010
First of all, I really don't care if you take Armor points away from me because of this post but, I cannot believe that you would shut down a service - "the shares" for a week, then decide that you can't fix the thing then, re-implement it for a few hours which failed miserably (version 6.1.9) then shut it down again. Have you guys given up? Then implement the one that worked and let us post on Crush the Castle Players Pack as we did before!!!
Fix it in the background but not on your servers - use the web for testing because on your servers it will probably work but it is a whole different world on the wonderful spammy WWW.
Your shares are way too slow and way too complicated and chew up too much bandwidth. It's nice but, not practical until some smart guy figures out the that the pics should be thumbnails no more than 7 kb in size. How are you going to do that?
Armor Games needs to learn that shutting down a service for a week is not acceptable on the fast paced competitive internet world and people are moving away from this site (including to Jay is Games and is a site that I have never had a problem and as well, Kontraband). They all have games and advertisements to support their sites but, they rarely go down to the dreaded 503 Error. Read some of the posts! Some posts are actually directing frustrated gamers to other web pages!
Secondly, do not ignore your clients (you know - the people that click either intentionally or accidentally on your advertisements - well placed I might add, that give you money to continue!) and keep us informed - not just a casual statement - "hurrah hurrah - we are fixing this and that (but really don't know how) but we will be back soon with bigger and better things!
Robin Allen from Foon.co.uk - which appears to extinct as of a few months ago (which brought to Armor Games). Made his shares simple.
Simple line thread giving the title if any and the author if any (which could be anonymous but don't allow that because they are usually spammers).
Three lines: Newest, Greatest, Random
With a list of 20 to 30 games underneath each title. He also had an "All" button that, took time to load but would give you all the levels posted by votes.
Oh yes - the voting system. You should not be able to exit a game without voting for the game you have played and my preference is this model. "Like it" and "Doh". The "Like it" games get a point and the "Doh" get nothing. That way you can set a minimum standard each month to eliminate games that are bogus and useless in the shares.
KISS - Keep it simple...
People are here to play some great games on this website but you are not really catering to these people by implementing BETA programming that doesn't work and shutting down many of the features of Armor Games!
Move it to another platform for some of us to test and comment. Leave what worked before until you get it right. I have time and am willing to test stuff and I have a lot of computer power to do that if need be to get the job done.
Robin Allen (I speak of him highly don't I?) put up specifically a beta game called Netshift - It had shares and a level editor. It took a month to fix most of the bugs by a few dedicated and competent testers. He introduced it as beta and we found a few more issues which he quickly fixed. When he was to introduce the final version, the website disappeared - and thus, I found Armor games in October 2009.
I see that Armor Games is donating monies to Haiti from Crush the Castle but, just think of the money you would have made if you had a proper share system working!!!?
For those that took the time to read this rant, I suggest that you find the time to find a good sponsor to send money to the Haiti relief fund. I sent mine to World Vision.
And so my rant has ended. Have a good day and I apologize profusely for my extended comment.
Marchellor says:
Posted at 11:13pm on 2/2/2010
i love armor games... i wish you luck on the high score thingy
DanielMcNeely (admin) says:
Posted at 8:48pm on 2/4/2010
Our Hi-Scores are back online. Thanks for your patience while we fixed everything.
TacticalStrategest says:
Posted at 7:30pm on 3/9/2010
Cool... thx... i didnt even realize there was one until a couple weeks ago. P.S. I joined like a month ago, so i was playingf for like 2 weeks with no idea.
frozenzebra says:
Posted at 8:35am on 2/6/2010
armor games is the best game site!!!
ErectusBKR says:
Posted at 11:18am on 2/6/2010
let's see
CZelly says:
Posted at 9:17am on 2/8/2010
^^
MSTRJCK says:
Posted at 3:25pm on 2/8/2010
i don't care about he high score system, i just want awesome games.
gluesy says:
Posted at 1:11pm on 2/14/2010
Looking forward to seeing what you can do.
zachshw2 says:
Posted at 1:40am on 2/20/2010
It would e better if games that dont have high scores got to be ones like my favorite epic war
rubensee says:
Posted at 10:28am on 2/21/2010
como atualizar?
Rankomeister says:
Posted at 8:44am on 2/22/2010
connect high scores and account points
billybobjo2 says:
Posted at 6:56pm on 2/24/2010
This seems pretty interesting...why?
ultimatetitan says:
Posted at 8:52am on 2/27/2010
i pray that this time scoreboard would not be glitchy as earlier and could be trusted
ImInDaHouse says:
Posted at 8:44pm on 2/27/2010
wow... a new hogh score system... woohoo
404 says:
Posted at 5:43am on 3/13/2010
sounds great
Jeromelol says:
Posted at 9:43am on 3/13/2010
taht is great
Fall0ut says:
Posted at 9:43am on 3/26/2010
It better be good! Or else... Im not going to like it!
DarkHunter777 says:
Posted at 4:54pm on 4/1/2010
I hope there good upgrades or else I would go crazy
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basbasbas says:
Posted at 7:40am on 5/23/2010
lol funny
BluJaye says:
Posted at 12:34am on 5/28/2010
I hope there good upgrades
Virus97 says:
Posted at 8:38pm on 6/14/2010
;o
doz27 says:
Posted at 1:19am on 6/18/2010
hehehe
madasahatter says:
Posted at 7:49am on 7/20/2010
well asides from the highscores being reset. . .
reguarding only Exit Path xD
Have u eliminated hackers from posting rediculous times and/or stopped people from abusing the pause glitch?