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Some signs of Retro Studios about to update/rehaul their website

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Nanashrew

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Lathentar said:
You guys....
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Sorry, dude.

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thisisvlad

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I'm certainly excited for Retro Studios to announce their current project, be it new IP or tried and true series.

What I don't understand is the purpose of their website. What does a developer stand to gain from a consumer facing site? Is it for:

- Career Postings? although those are through NOA's corp site
- New game announcements? those would be through NOA comms/directs or Nintendo PRs
- Web services related to current/upcoming games? those would probably be built in dedicated sites for specific titles (a la Super Mario Maker bookmark page)
- Community Management? surely these would be better served via social media or Miiverse

Outside of finding a more cost effective site hosting strategy, what could possibly be Retro's motivation to update this website?
 
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Easy_D

never left the stone age
thisisvlad said:
I'm certainly excited for Retro Studios to announce their current project, be it new IP or tried and true series.

What I don't understand is the purpose of their website. What does a developer stand to gain from a consumer facing site? Is it for:

- Career Postings? although those are through NOA's corp site
- New game announcements? those would be through NOA comms/directs or Nintendo PRs
- Web services related to current/upcoming games? those would probably be built in dedicated sites for specific titles (a la Super Mario Maker bookmark page)
- Community Management? surely these would be better served via social media or Miiverse

Outside of finding a more cost effective site hosting strategy, what could possibly be Retro's motivation to update this website?
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Maybe Retro's going independent.
 
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ChaosXVI

Member
Oh come on now...don't get me wrong, there's nobody on the planet more hyped for Retro's next game than me, but just because they are updating their website to something that doesn't look like it's from the year 2000 does not mean anything at all regarding their new game is going to be shown in the near future.

Everybody relax...it'll get announced, when it gets announced...
And that will probably be E3.
 
funking giblet

funking giblet

Member
The page briefly showed a Dell Sonicwall landing page (it's a firewall) probably due to an error which resolved itself, they uploaded nothing, this thread is nuts.
 
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SalvaPot

Member
When Donkey Kong Kremling Kronickles as a NX launch title gets announced a lot of you will be disappointed.

Not me tho.

Edit: Jesus Christ this and the older Retro Studios thread are bananas, some people are way too thirsty about Metroid.
 
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cyba89

Member
KevinCow said:
I just hate how it goes with every Nintendo studio: "Here's a game. It's releasing within the next year. Then you won't hear from us again until our next game is less than a year out from release, which will be like three or four years from now."
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I prefer the "announce less than a year before release"-way.

KevinCow said:
And I'm not even asking for a Sakurai-esque daily update website where nearly everything about the game is revealed before it comes out. Just a monthly or at least bimonthly, "Hey, we're still alive and working on the game!" update or something.
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I don't see the point. I know they are currently working hard on their next game even without these non-updates.
 
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WhiteRabbitEXE

Member
So Retro installed a new security system and accidentally uploaded the files for the web-facing control panel to a public directory before eventually fixing it...?
 
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ChaosXVI

Member
Orakio Rob said:
I'm not getting hyped this time. My wife stills makes fun of me because of what happened last time.
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I remember when that happened...what a shitshow. Wasn't there a time when someone was even trying to go through their fucking garbage or was that just a joke?

I mean...I'd like to believe it was a joke, but with the other weirdness that has happened, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised.
 
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Easy_D

never left the stone age
thisisvlad said:
Could be a possibility, but since they are a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nintendo, someone would have to buy Nintendo's stake of the business . . . and I don't see that as very likely.
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Don't mind me, I'm just posting the worst case scenarios to subliminally lower expectations
 
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Maxrunner

Member
thisisvlad said:
Could be a possibility, but since they are a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nintendo, someone would have to buy Nintendo's stake of the business . . . and I don't see that as very likely.
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Nintendo will swap retro for rare só that MS will then launch a game and then say:" from the real makers of metroid prime ", slogan thing....
 
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Christberg

Member
Pretty much all of those are GUI elements from a Dell WAF device or firewall. (They bought out the SonicWall company a few years ago, who are a relatively well known UTM manufacturer.) Sorry guys, but this is a giant stack of nothing with a couple screwups from Retro's dev and/or security team.

Kinda humorous seeing people scraping their site inadvertently calling them out on it though.
 
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Rösti

Unconfirmed Member
Christberg said:
Pretty much all of those are GUI elements from a Dell WAF device or firewall. (They bought out the SonicWall company a few years ago, who are a relatively well known UTM manufacturer.) Sorry guys, but this is a giant stack of nothing with a couple screwups from Retro's dev and/or security team.

Kinda humorous seeing people scraping their site inadvertently calling them out on it though.
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Yes, I think we can safely establish that this is merely the product of human error, and not something to become too excited over. Nevertheless, at least we know they are doing something with their site.

I added an update to the OP.
 
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WhiteRabbitEXE

Member
Rösti;192695627 said:
Nevertheless, at least we know they are doing something with their site.
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I mean... No, not really. Uploading the files for their security system's GUI into the wrong directory on their server and/or applying incorrect privileges to those files does not mean they are doing anything at all with their website.
 
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Litri

Member
Game will be called NEOGAF PRIME 4 after all these Retro Studios-related threads...

Now seriously, they should hint at something for once.
 
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Rösti

Unconfirmed Member
They responded, with a single word, to my question on Twitter:

[TWEET]https://twitter.com/RostiNeoGAF/status/689492944240250880[/TWEET]
 
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Litri

Member
Rösti;192731582 said:
They responded, with a single word, to my question on Twitter:

[TWEET]https://twitter.com/RostiNeoGAF/status/689492944240250880[/TWEET]
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Better than nothing I must say.
 
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cyba89

Member
Rösti;192731582 said:
They responded, with a single word, to my question on Twitter:

[TWEET]https://twitter.com/RostiNeoGAF/status/689492944240250880[/TWEET]
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Metroid Prime NX as launch title confirmed.
 
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Easy_D

never left the stone age
Rösti;192731582 said:
They responded, with a single word, to my question on Twitter:

[TWEET]https://twitter.com/RostiNeoGAF/status/689492944240250880[/TWEET]
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Three synonyms to patience: Poise, Endurance and Stoicism.

Retro working on Dark Souls inspired dark fantasy RPG confirmed (Ravenblade returns!)
 
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