July 22nd, 2010
Hey guys just wanted to let you all know that I am keeping tabs on the Turf Battles situation and reading the forum posts here at tb.co.uk when new ones get posted. I am very glad to see that “Turf Battles will 100% be coming back” as I am sure the rest of you are.
Summer has been pretty busy since Turf Battles went down, as some of you know I’m taking some college classes to gain me some learning and I’m still doing GameSage work over at Aeria Games. I spent a short month being a GS for Caesary before I was given a special position helping Valkyrie and Andosky (along with guys like Nekhra) release new games like Legendary Champions. I suggest anyone with a higher powered laptop give it a chance because I’ve heard its kinda similar to Turf Battles, including special transformations aspect. Might give you something to do while wait for more information regarding Turf Battles situation.
On the topic of Turf Battles, I’m glad to see that Vaicine is keeping you all informed of the goings-on and that the news looks positive. Hopefully some new version can become readily available to the players who recognize its value and legacy. At the moment however, there is not much for me to contribute to the situation as the question of server hosting and business management is outside of my realm of expertise and falls more squarely into Vaicine’s lap. However if Vai need’s something, he knows where to reach me.
That being said, once Turf Battles is out of the discussion stage and into the actual implementation, I will get more involved with various aspects of the management and publishing. As it stands, I’m comfortable with Vaicine discussing the situation with SmileGate and relying on his information. Both SmileGate and Vaicine know where to reach me if a problem or concern does crop up and I’m usually available.
Game on my friends!
Posted in Personal Blog
July 14th, 2010
Today I had an informal chat with one of my contacts at Smilegate, and I’m able to give you some fairly exciting news!
My contact has confirmed that Turf Battles will 100% be coming back! They are working on it right now to get it fixed and ready to be played. I haven’t been given confirmation on whether they will be publishing the game themselves, or if they will be looking for external publishing.
There is also no date set for when the game will be coming back, and there’s no news on exactly *what* they are fixing/changing/preparing/updating, but I think it’s going to be fixing all the glitches, bugs etc. And as we all know, there were quite a few problems – so it’s going to take them a bit of time to fix it all up.
Posted in Uncategorized
June 28th, 2010
As I didn’t hear any reply from Smilegate last week, I emailed them on Friday asking for any update. They replied this morning.
The only news is that they are still sorting things out their end, and for us to be patient basically.
I wish I could give you a better update, but that’s all I have.
We’ve added a forum games section to the forum – if you want something to do, go have a browse around there!
Also, a few members are getting the wiki back up at http://wiki.turfbattles.co.uk and i’m sure they’d appreciate your help!
Posted in Turf Battles News
June 22nd, 2010
Aeriagames has removed the entire Turfbattles forum, website and wiki from their servers.
It looks like this is officially the end of Turfbattles for Aeriagames.
If you know of any players who had not signed up to the forums at turfbattles.co.uk, tell them they have a home here now that the Aeriagames site is down.
As I said in my previous post, I will post an update in regard to the game as soon as I get one.
Posted in Turf Battles News
June 21st, 2010
On Friday June 18th, 2010, the Aeria Games Turf Battles servers were taken down.
Now we’re in the week following the Aeria Games Turf Battles closure, we hope to continue our conversations with Smilegate.
We’re going to have to play the waiting game now. The ball is in their court – we’ve just got to wait for them to make a reply. This could happen any time from now onwards.
I’ll post on the forum and the website as soon as I get any further correspondance from Smilegate.
Until then, notify all the players you know to sign up to the forums and post their interest in the game. Without a substantial amount of support, we won’t be able to get the game back.
Currently, this is how the support for Turfbattles looks:
Total signups to the forum as of 21st June 2010: 93
Average daily views on the site: 210
Breakdown of views by continent:
Asia: 66.5%
Europe: 20.5%
America: 13%
As far as i’m aware, none of the asian players have signed up to the forum or posted their interest in donating to the game.
Here’s a message for the Chinese players:
如果你想要玩TurfBattles,那么就来论坛注册吧。
Posted in Turf Battles News