Development Cycle Archive
Thread: About the new FONT
Some things you just shouldn't change... Font is one of them...
Our old font was readable.. this one is horrible and you give us no options to change it... Changing a font is the worst thing you can do to a person because we use it so often to communicate with other people. DEV's horrible job... while your busy playing with fonts the HONOR BADGE REMAINS BROKEN.
Your wasting my time and money on a font when you should be fixing problems in the game... ones that are warrant.
I personally don't mind the new font so much. It's not THAT bad, at least its legible, and remember, it is only temporary. If it lets the Europeans play, then I'm all for it, since they're paying their $15/mo (or equivalent) then they should have just as much right to play as we do.
So it looks a lil odd, you'll get used to it, and then when they put in the cool new font they are working on, this board will be chock full of "new font sux" messages all over again.
I say good on ya to all the devs for the work they are doin, cause I know I sure wouldn't be able to do it. When I get mad at something in the game, I also stop and remember how much work has to have gone into it and you know what, it's not so bad. Ok, so its buggy and there's things that remain needing fixed, God knows I get sick of relogging to clear bugs, but all in all, it could be a whole heck of a lot worse.
You know what else comes to mind as I read all the posts in here? If you don't like it...why are you still here? Hmmm?
Williben wrote:Why waste valuable developer time to make "cool new fonts" when the chef food bug is still in game?
Because the guy who works on fonts and the guy who works on chef food are not the same people?
They've said over and over that the ART DEPARTMENT and the CODE DEPARTMENT are different and they don't know anything about each other's jobs. This is the same thing as when they added new dance flourishes. Those are art-department things. They don't have any affect on whether the chef-food-bug is going to be fixed. It's different teams. The guys working on fonts probably don't even know the first thing about how to fix the food bug. It's the profession developers who have to work on that. Separate groups.
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Well thats the thing some of us cant get passed the crappyness of it in order to beable to read it... well that and it's annoyingly small. 
Good to hear it's being fixed.
Jayces wrote:
Am I the only one who likes the new font?
yes you are... let us all laugh and mock you now.
hehe
Okay, here's how I see the font situation:
1: The devs realized a bit too late, maybe due to a player asking for letters in their language, that a new font might be useful for the Europeans. So, they implemented one that included these characters.
2: They also realized that this was not the most beautiful font in the world, and wanted to do something, but didn't have time to design/find a new font in time for the European launch. So they decided to change it once able, but not to rush anything this important (Imagine a font bug switching letters... and the resulting frustration!).
I think they did the right thing rushing to implement a proper font (Do you realize how frustrating it is when you can't type three of the letters in your alphabet? Try writing sentences without C, S and H, and you'll see my point.). Also, I can't see the need to be flaming anyone over something this minor. I mean, really, relax guys. It's not even that big of a change to all you Americans. Could you please just respect the fact that other languages use more complex alphabets and are therefore happy with the change?
'There are two things in this world I can't stand: People who are intolerant of other people's cultures... And the Dutch!' - Nigel Powers, Goldmember.
Later, and good luck opening your FS slot 
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Oolon Kaloofid (Eclipse), whose real name couldn't be spelled without the letter ø.
shaavik wrote:
Accents ARE important for non english people...
Yes. Japanese are a good example of this.