[Iggy]

zchri9, on May 7 2009, 05:19 AM, said:

I think its a bit odd that the 3DR homepage is down...
Whats you guys take on this?

Either 3DR is really dead or some sinister plot at work.

I'm still waiting for an official statement from the company.

[Tedades]

We want some official 'news' from 3DRealms, but as the website is offline I wonder how we'll see it...
(forums are semi-online though)

[ashura252]

Either they've evacuated the building, or it's going to come back later (probably not)...
But if the site is down, wouldn't they have had the forums shut down as well, even if they WERE somewhere else...

[Kennerado]

Forums are on an external host and I'm guessing 3DR has not ordered them to pull the plug yet.

[ashura252]

But WHY wouldn't they, if they had really gone for good?


Edit:
From the forums:
"The server is too busy at the moment. Please try again later."

[kaisersoze]

ashura252, on May 7 2009, 08:22 AM, said:

Either they've evacuated the building, or it's going to come back later (probably not)...
But if the site is down, wouldn't they have had the forums shut down as well, even if they WERE somewhere else...

Yeah, if the company had gone under, I would think the plug on the forums would have been pulled as well.

Guess we'll have to wait and see what George says about all this.

[Tekedon]

Hello, just registered here so sad news indeed

[ashura252]

What makes us think we'll even hear anything from George?

[Kepatti]

I don't know if someone has already said this but I think this just means that 3DRealms will change back to Apogee. "3DRealms is dead" and they conveniently revived Apogee... All this is speculation of course, but I wouldn't give up hope before Broussard comments on this.

[Kathy]

Maybe George is already in Mexico.

[zchri9]

Apogee is run by Terry Naggy
HAS NO FUCKING THING TO DO WITH 3DR

[kaisersoze]

Hey Tek, welcome!

Perhaps 3drealms has indeed closed down but they have now gone under the "Apogee" company?





I'm an utter mess.

[PokeThePower]

Kepatti, on May 7 2009, 07:32 AM, said:

I don't know if someone has already said this but I think this just means that 3DRealms will change back to Apogee. "3DRealms is dead" and they conveniently revived Apogee... All this is speculation of course, but I wouldn't give up hope before Broussard comments on this.

The problem is all of the staff are being let go... so even if that were to happen in a legal sense regarding the companies... there are still no staff to do any work. They are all sending out feelers right now looking for new gigs.

So unless they got all the staff to "pretend" to look for work as part of the plan, it doesn't make much sense for there to be a revival or collapsing of 3DR within Apogee except for purely accounting purposes, and even that isn't very practical.

[ashura252]

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Apogee is run by Terry Naggy
HAS NO FUCKING THING TO DO WITH 3DR

You alright there?
He makes his first post to the forum and you shout them down like they were supposed to know...

[zchri9]

Well 3DR is closing down how the fuck am I supposed to feel?

I dont know if I should go to bed now (10:37pm) and see whats happened when I wake up.

[Sinisterambo]

Kepatti, on May 7 2009, 01:32 PM, said:

I don't know if someone has already said this but I think this just means that 3DRealms will change back to Apogee. "3DRealms is dead" and they conveniently revived Apogee... All this is speculation of course, but I wouldn't give up hope before Broussard comments on this.

Yeah and don't forget these remarks made by the GB:-

Cutting is shipping...

Closing out another milestone...

These add weight to the conspiracy and point to the theory that its very near gold status. Any final changes could be made by George and released under Apogee or *under the* Radar Group companies.

Why continue to pay for staff when they've done their job already?

[kaisersoze]

I guess our hope now is that all the guys and ladies who worked at 3drealms land on their feet. My thoughts are with them all.

As I've said a million times already, this game deserves to be finished and released. I used to say 3drealms didn't owe us that. That's true.

It's George that owes us that. Every fan who ever believed and followed, every person that busted their ass working there, all those years of waiting.....

It has to be made right.

[Kathy]

Yatta, how about changing the color of that line on the frontpage to black?

[ashura252]

zchri9, on May 7 2009, 10:37 PM, said:

Well 3DR is closing down how the fuck am I supposed to feel?

I dont know if I should go to bed now (10:37pm) and see whats happened when I wake up.

sorry, you did make a valid point...


btw, you live in Australia?

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how about changing the color of that line on the frontpage to black?

Aren't we still on red alert, to find out what's going to happen?

[zchri9]

Yes, I live in Australia.

Im going to try to go to sleep now...

[kaisersoze]

Lotan, on May 7 2009, 08:40 AM, said:

Yatta, how about changing the color of that line on the frontpage to black?

I say wait until George or Scott give an official response. Then we go from there.

[Kathy]

kaisersoze, on May 7 2009, 04:40 PM, said:

It has to be made right.

Let it go. We'll always have Paris(Duke3d).

[cryptonx]

kaisersoze, on May 7 2009, 03:40 PM, said:

I guess our hope now is that all the guys and ladies who worked at 3drealms land on their feet. My thoughts are with them all.

As I've said a million times already, this game deserves to be finished and released. I used to say 3drealms didn't owe us that. That's true.

It's George that owes us that. Every fan who ever believed and followed, every person that busted their ass working there, all those years of waiting.....

It has to be made right.

Its too late for that ....

Fellas dont get ur hopes up !

3-4 3Drealms members ( level designers - programmers )

have updated their LINKDLN and Personal Websites.. stating that they are FORMER members of 3Drealms .. and open up for hiring !

here's an example !

Scott McLean

May 6, 2009 For any prospective employers checking out the site, welcome. I hope you enjoy what you see. Feel free to email me with any questions.

Duke4 and other websites are reporting the other departures ...

so i guess this is not a viral marketing at all.

[ashley678]

well take two is still no matter what the publisher

Take-Two continues to retain the publishing rights to Duke Nukem Forever." - Alan Lewis, Vice President of Corporate Communications & Public Affairs for Take-Two.

[Psyrgery]

Seriously, why did they lock the DNF Forums and why are they keeping the others opened???

I don't understand.

[Steve]

Psyrgery, on May 7 2009, 04:49 AM, said:

Seriously, why did they locked the DNF Forums why are they keeping the others opened???

I don't understand.

Likewise. It doesn't make sense.

[X-Vector]

kaisersoze, on May 7 2009, 02:14 PM, said:

The Duke IP is a strong one. If DNF or the Duke IP is put up for sale, I think it will be grabbed quickly.

The Duke IP hasn't had an AAA title released in well over a decade.
It's one thing to put a modest handheld product on gaming shelves, but another proposition entirely to fund a large scale multi-platform FPS.
Sure, the DNF saga has resulted in some name recognition, but most of that has had a negative connotation and is no basis to assume sincere and widespread interest.

If Duke at any time had the gravitas of a Half-Life, Halo or a GTA, it certainly isn't any time recent.

[MusicallyInspired]

I just joined these forums under the impression that the 3DR forums won't be around forever. Truly sad news. Another link to the golden era of PC gaming broken.

[Sinisterambo]

The forums at 3DR are back up.

[WestSeven]

The BBC is saying they've gone bust (ie not simply closed down by the owners) so as we sit here receivers will be trawling through the offices removing anything of value. I would also expect they will be talking seriously to GB about what if anything can be used to bring in cash (eg selling the Duke name). Either way what we can now guess fairly accurately is that Duke (the character) along with the DNF source now belongs to a bank and is no longer the property of George or anyone else.