MTW-Redux Beta Released!

[Axalon]

A happy new year folks... Some notes/remarks to self, as tradition would have it...


Redux & 2015
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Releases: Unipatch 2 (RXB1005)...
Downloads RXB1005: 1800 (roughly)
Views: +30.000
Posts: +21 (this thread)

In reference to posts... 2015 generated somewhat less posts in this very thread then the previous year (compare with TWC RX-thread and 69 posts, 26 mine, same period). 13 posts were mine, which is a bit more then half of the posts made in total over the year (in this thread) and I generally consider that circumstance to be a bad thing. It means this thread is moving in the direction of becoming a thread for general announcements, news and statements, a kind of one-way news-channel instead of a place for discussing and exchanging experiences, tips and information between folks who play and are interested in Redux somehow. Obviously, Redux does not download itself, or generate that many views out of thin air - somebody is watching and reading here, somebody is downloading and playing Redux, yet failing to post and take part here. Damn shame, as it is an opportunity being squandered for nothing. Doing nothing will also yield nothing. Zero input means zero output as well, both in this thread and elsewhere.

In the summer of 2015, Atomic Gamer shut down, which was both sad and bad for Redux and modding at large. The entire Redux-legacy archive was thus lost, not to mention the primary zip-uploads as well. I have yet to find a replacement site/host as good and reliable as Atomic was (any suggestions would be welcome BTW). As it is the existing Gamefront uploads have had to soldier on alone since then, and still do. Hardly optimal or desirable. MTW also got ported to Steam™, and more importantly it was made more agreeable to W8 (W10 too?) and newer hardware. Typically of CA, it was only for the steam-version, for which we are again forced to pay for in full (all over again) despite having paid full price already for previous copies of MTW. So CA's poor business practices are still alive and well...

During 2015 my activity here was in general both periodic and sporadic. I was often absent for longer then a month at a time. Obviously my time is limited, but I am also displeased with Org-management at large as they have kept, and insisted upon, clearly unsuccessful practices and doctrines that has severely damaged this site ever since 2011 - and the flat out ridiculous site-index is also left unchanged. The only way to make this entire site somehow relevant again (and as a result the RX-area too), is to throw all that crap out the window and rebuild from scratch. Starting with attitude. This is a TW-site, do not be apologetic for that, stop acting as if it was supposed to be anything else or that anything else will save this site somehow. Its a TW-site, and the focus should have stayed there all the time, let other sites worry about other things, its in TW this site has a future, it was in TW former glory was built and it is here it can hope to compete. It is from TW it can draw strength and attract visitors and members once again, and it is in the equal treatment of all TW-games (new and old alike, no favorites) that this place can offer something that no other does. It is in treating modding seriously and favourably that this place can have a future, and any TW-game can have a future. As it is, nothing of this is done and we are left with what now is a virtual ghost-site with pitiful levels activity and traffic – so obvious that not even the Org-staff can not pretend to be oblivious of/ignore it any longer (although some have certainly tried). Everyone knows it, openly or silently. And its extra irritating to me as I have invested so much work and effort in this place/site over the years due to Redux (and other things). All that, and indeed the entire site, seemingly squandered due to petty prestige and the evident paralysis and incompetence of current site-management. There, I said it (not that it will matter much).

- A