Drew Chappell
United States
Buena Park
California
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Days of Wonder has changed their website- including adding more info about Cleopatra.
Looks interesting.
www.daysofwonder.com
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Ryan Olson
United States
Topeka
Kansas
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Wow is that site bad...
Ugly, childish looking.
I think it looks much more unprofessional than before...
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Chaddyboy
United States
Olathe
Kansas
Bloooooop.
Bluuuuuurp.
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Why?!? It looked great before!
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I do not like the new version.
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Peter Kruijt
Netherlands
Eindhoven
NBr
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Maybe it will take some getting used to, but I'm not particularly charmed by the new look either.
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June King
United States
Unspecified
Bring me her heart in this box.
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Not sure I like it.
The old site featured the artwork style of the DoW games. I enjoyed that. It seems more "clinical" somehow. 
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Wade Ramsey
United States
Centennial
Colorado
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Not my first choice of site designs, but it (and the old site, IMO) still fit the art style and presentation of the DOW games.
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Mark Gallardo
United States
Houston
Texas
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P U
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Rachel Wolfe
United States
Indianapolis
Indiana
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Oh, my. What a remarkable step backward. I'm sorry that the major elements of this site design won't tip off gamers to the high-quality artwork they include in all their games unless they click through to deeper levels.
I am, however, glad to see more info on Cleopatra -- it looks great!
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Eddie the Cranky Monkey
Canada
Edmonton
Alberta
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While I'd laugh in the face of anyone who thought the old one was really really great, this new one is definitely much worse.
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Kane Klenko
United States
Ridgeway
Wisconsin
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I read all of these comments and then went to the site expecting to see a hideous and vile representation of crap, when in fact I saw a decent looking site. I don't see the problem. Has anyone seen Rio Grande's website!?!
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Eddie the Cranky Monkey
Canada
Edmonton
Alberta
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Favre4MVP wrote: I read all of these comments and then went to the site expecting to see a hideous and vile representation of crap, when in fact I saw a decent looking site. I don't see the problem. Has anyone seen Rio Grande's website!?!
So, by your standards, is a 1 week old dead corpse more alive than a 1 year old dead corpse?
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Jeff Coon
United States
Plano
Texas
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From a useability and interface viewpoint, that site is horrible. From a web standards viewpoint, that site is horrible. From a design standpoint, I've seen a lot worse.
The site is 80% graphics. Yuck. Give us some text. Less is more in web design.
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Jason Birzer
United States
Burke
Virginia
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Really, can you get any more generic in your look-and-feel for a company website than this. When you go to a website, you are supposed to get a feel of what the company is like. You get nothing from this design. Very sterile.
Going through the site, it looks like a lot of design decisions were made to make updating the site easier, with more generic templates for each game, a list of games that can easily be updated with new ones. All of which is laudable goals for a company web site. Too bad they let the developers do the design of the site as well.  
Jason
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Dave
United States
Glen Ridge
New Jersey
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That site just made me throw up a little in my mouth.
Holy Bajeezus that's bad.
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Justin
United States
Michigan
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Not as bad as some sites but not as good as the old site.
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Chris Rogers
United States
San Ramon
California
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The new site is going to take some getting used to.
Regardless, I'm not much interested in going to the DOW site until they enable playing of Memoir '44 online.
I'd be willing to pay money for that.
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Chapel
United States
Round Rock
Texas
Only for the love of the game...
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Favre4MVP wrote: I read all of these comments and then went to the site expecting to see a hideous and vile representation of crap, when in fact I saw a decent looking site. I don't see the problem. Has anyone seen Rio Grande's website!?!
Don't think anyone has ever said the RGG website was a good one.
And the DoW website is better than most european game publishers websites. Most of them looks like they were developed by taking geocities as an example.
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Robert Cannon
United States
Atlanta
GA
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Another vote for the old look...
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Jesse Miller
United States
Gettysburg
Pennsylvania
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Bring back the old site, please.
Or put up M'44 online version and I will hold my nose and forgive you.
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Ryan Bretsch
United States
Tampa
Florida
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You know what? I will give them a
 for this. Do I like the old site better? Absolutely.
But let's give Days of Wonder some credit here. How many companies would even try and take a risk on improving an already great site? Some people may think that's crazy, but I think it is great. It shows me something about Days of Wonder's character.
We should applaud the effort because quite frankly, it is that kind of dedication which is why we get to enjoy so many fabulous boardgames from them in the first place. It is also the same foreshadowing of the type of agressive new box art we saw from DOW for "Ticket to Ride Marklin". They took a risk there to break from their traditional mold and quite frankly that one worked BIG time. It was one of their best box covers to date.
So I think this website just indicates that the second half of 2006 will be a very strong return to form. They have far more hits than misses and they are trying to shake things up a bit.
That could lead to some VERY exciting stuff later this year and into next year.
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Ueardo Mastu
United States
Unspecified
Unspecified
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rdbret wrote: You know what?[...]
Huh? What on Earth are you talking about?
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skippen
United States
Greeley
Colorado
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Lordy folks. It is not that bad. Yes, I like the old one better, but this is just fine.
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Tom "Snicker Daddy" Pancoast
United States
Richmond
Virginia
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I think I'll follow my mom's advice and not say anything...
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