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Not feedback about the game, but feedback nevertheless.

The banner on the forum still displays a release date of 31st August. Whereas on Reddit they have a more recent banner that says 3rd August.

I'm a bit jealous.


I'm not sure who at Larian is in charge of updating the banner on the official forum, or at least who is in charge of sending the updated banner to whoever is in charge of updating the forum. But I do remember that when Patch 6 released, we had the Sorcerer banner ... until Patch 8 (more or less, iirc, maybe shortly before or shortly after) ... The official forum is a cool place too ! (#KeepTheForumGreat)

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It's the Mindflayer's job but he is really cranky and doesn't speak English or Flemish. We sent an intern but he hasn't come back...so...yeah.


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Originally Posted by Drath Malorn
The banner on the forum still displays a release date of 31st August. Whereas on Reddit they have a more recent banner that says 3rd August.

Yeah, I know Salo has been trying to get it updated. I think that when she first tried the problem was that the forum was throwing a hissy fit on the day of the new release date announcement. But she did tell me a couple of days back she was trying to push the update again so hopefully we'll get our new banner soon!


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Originally Posted by Blackheifer
It's the Mindflayer's job but he is really cranky and doesn't speak English or Flemish. We sent an intern but he hasn't come back...so...yeah.
Maybe telepathy will get the message across?

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Thanks, Red Queen, for the update on the banner. It's good, to some extent, to know that Larian is working on this.

On a related topic, there is the issue of the forum being so freaking slow, which makes it a real difficulty to use. There are two recent threads about this, here (the one you opened) and there. And, as Niara realised when trying to watch the PFH from Larian's website instead of YouTube, the website is apparently not working amazingly either.

I've read from you elsewhere that Larian is also working on the slow performance of the forum. So, again, that's good.


But all put together, on top of being annoying for me as a user, I feel this is embarassing for Larian.

If Larian was a small company selling antiques, hand-crafted potteries, or porcelain dishes, I would maybe raise an eye-brown at the subpar quality/performance of their websites, and that would be about it. But from a large software company, it does not look good to struggle that much with computer stuff.

The first impression a newcomer would have is that Larian lacks the necessary programming skills. And how many people would instinctively bring their car for repair to garage where the garagists drive really bad sounding cars ?

Now, I don't think that Larian truly has no one in-house who could set up a forum or a website properly. More likely, things are as they are because Larian doesn't care much about the forums. And after years of neglect, sure, it might become more difficult to do quick and successful maintenance on the forum. But I'm not sure how much better neglect/lack of care is, compared to lack of technical expertise.


I was about to conclude this post by saying "hopefully we'll get to see fixes/repairs soon". And what do you know, we have a new banner. Youhou ! One step forward.

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if you don't see the new banner yet try pressing [ctrl] + [F5]... their cms servers are crashing


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