The Year Doomworld Died
I’m really beginning to believe that 2007 will become remember as the year that my old haunt over at Doomworld will have officially died. The site has consistently dropped below ten news items a month (including /newstuff), and it hasn’t been updated since Doom’s 13th Birthday back on 12/10/2006. I love the site, and miss the times when I was the news bitch, but let’s be frank, Doom is a dying community, the game is 13 years old and most of the hardcore oldschool doomers are grown and have responsibilities in their own life that don’t allow for Dooming anymore. And it’s not like there is any new blood coming in either, after all, the game is 13 years old, and there are much more technologically advanced games out there for people to play.
R.I.P. Doomworld 1998 – 2007
Ah Covaro, you will always be remembered as an integral and beloved part of the Doom community. Tell us about the time you went to Washington D.C. to try and reason with the politicians about the myth of “videogame violence.”
/leaves a white lilly beside Doomworld’s headstone
Comment by Andy — 1/7/2007 @ 8:09 pm
That hurts, damn it.
Comment by Bloodshedder — 1/8/2007 @ 12:03 pm
Unfortunately, the rumors were flalse. Doomworld will survive.
Comment by Judge — 1/8/2007 @ 2:05 pm
DW will survive, but I doubt in it’s current form for much longer. I believe it will become a retrospective site on the history of Doom, as news on the Doom front at this point is almost non-existent. There is still a community of people that was formed around the site and the game itself, but even those people that are still members of that community have generally moved on from the game itself, not the community. Doom will always have a special place in my heart, along with all the time I spent as the newsie on DW, but I’m just saying that this will be there year that Doomworld as we know it is done.
Comment by Scott Cover — 1/8/2007 @ 2:42 pm
Pff, new games suck.
Comment by Tango — 1/8/2007 @ 3:59 pm
I suppose it’s time for Doom news to die a natural death. The community itself, however, will live strongly for much longer.
Comment by Wills — 1/8/2007 @ 7:59 pm
Sorry to say this dude, but you pretty much erhm…
FAIL…
@ following sites.
Frankly I think the guys over there are making Pun out of you now.
Besides, I am still making mods and I play the game whenever I feel like it. So back off with those statements will you?
- DavVv teh hax
Comment by DavVv — 1/9/2007 @ 1:51 am
Well put man, i’ve had similiar beliefs as well. Doomworld will die if not 2007, for sure 2008. 10 news items a month isn’t keeping the community together. http://www.newdoom.com updates daily.. doomworld should have moved on with more doom3 coverage to help keep it going.
Sad times indeed.
Comment by Fusion — 1/9/2007 @ 7:52 am
DavVv -
Dude, I think I earned the right to pretty much say what I think with regards to DW. With as much of my time as I gave to helping build up that website to where it got to I’ve earned my say in what I think is the future of DW.
No offense man, but look at the difference between DW in early to mid 1998 to what it is today, it’s a shell. Yes, the forums are active and the community itself is alive with members, but what those members are doing for the game itself is quite limited compared to the days of old.
-Cov
Comment by Scott Cover — 1/9/2007 @ 8:16 am
Well yeah compare it to the days of old and of course it’s not the same. What I don’t agree with however is the new blood comment. There IS new blood that enters regularly (and I mean specifically on DW), and to be honest it even surprises me a bit. Plus, there’s new things on the horizon that you aren’t even aware of yet that will help revitalize the doom community as a whole. I think lack of news and newstuff is not simply due to lack of content, but rather lack of will from the updaters to do their job. People get sluggish in the year transition time, aka winter.
Comment by Manc — 1/9/2007 @ 10:36 am
12/10/2006? October? 10/12/2006, surely…
Comment by Z — 1/9/2007 @ 1:11 pm
No, that’s right… in America it’s usually Month/Day/Year.
-Cov
Comment by Scott Cover — 1/9/2007 @ 1:17 pm
The doom community is slowing down. I’ve been working on a few things (a couple large few year old projects). And there are definately new people coming into the community. I’ve had a number of kids (mostly 15 and under) message me and ask about mapping. They are mostly interested in skulltag and deathmatching though. I don’t beleive the doom community will die its just waiting for this new younger generation to rise I suppose.
Comment by hobomaster — 1/9/2007 @ 1:51 pm
I have been dooming since it’s original release in ’93. I didn’t think the community would last much past the fifteenth anniversary anyways. I think it’s sad, but I just have a feeling that we are going to revert back into the days of old. The days before the source code release. The Doom Dark Ages. A time where only the hardcore doomers still play. I am not so certain we will make it through to the other side this time.
I plan to release one more map into the /idgames archive and then I am just going to watch and observe the plight of Doom.
Comment by JingoDoomer — 1/9/2007 @ 3:51 pm
Only a matter of time. The amount of projects are decreasing rapidly anyway. Doomworld’s on a slow drip IV.
Comment by Darkfyre — 1/9/2007 @ 4:52 pm
Doomworld is not dead. How DARE you think of such a thing. DOOM STILL LIVES 4EVA!!!!
Comment by Cyberdemon — 1/10/2007 @ 1:53 pm
Nah. It’s not dead. Doom didn’t keep livin’ for thirteen years for this.
Comment by Manek Iridius — 1/11/2007 @ 1:56 pm
No one said doom is dead. Doomworld was the topic of conversation.
Comment by Fusion — 1/12/2007 @ 5:40 pm
When I first found out about doomworld I was there nearly everyday, checking out the newstuff releases and various bits of news. I would have to agree though that the severe lack of updates lately have been a definite turn-off.
Comment by bshock — 1/12/2007 @ 10:55 pm
DooM it’s still alive dumb. Look another comunities like NewDooM… The fact it’s different: new material make time to see the light, take very months to finished, maybe they take a break to catch this material slowly. DooMWorld it’s alive, see the site dork, don’t talk bull shit…
Comment by Andrew — 1/13/2007 @ 12:45 am
I’m a doomer from Italy since Doom went out, I start to play DM on-line some days ago when I found ZDoom (because Doom2 on an XP machine give some audio problems, befoure I try the multiplayer with Doom only via null-modem cable) and I work at my WADs (using Doom Buldier), my little nephew love to shoot while I drive trougnt the levels. I’m 30 years old.
Comment by Mattia Giovanetti — 1/14/2007 @ 1:12 pm
I think many of you are wrong about the community of mappers, etc… drying up and the doom community dying. Just on Doom Wad Station alone we reviewed more than 50 Doom2 maps and those were only ones that were submitted for review. That doesn’t count for the dozens(hundreds?) that are submitted to the archives alone. I think Doomworld is definitely lacking in motivation as to news and /newstuff but other than that it could still be the fine old man of the Doomworld that it has always been.
Comment by Sematary — 1/16/2007 @ 2:17 pm
Doom has lots of fresh blood! I’m 13 years old and I freaking love it! I love source ports, I love WADS, I love online play, I love WAD making, I love everything about this “old game”. Besides, if Doomworld dies someone will simply put up a new site that operates similar to Doomworld! Don’t ever say Doom is dead or I’ll BFG you!>:)
Comment by EvildeaditeBoy — 1/22/2007 @ 1:29 pm
HAY LUUK EYE STIL EKSIZT TWO
*ahem*
Sorry about that. I suspect the issue with DW is less that it’s dying (it may be, it may not – I stopped following it a loooooong time ago) and more that the current news crew is, how you say, a bit less self-motivated.
At least you still get news, though…
Comment by MDenham — 1/22/2007 @ 11:49 pm
True, Doomworld is but a shadow of it’s former self. It’s only a matter of time before all Doom news disappears entirely. But, I got into Doom in 1992, when I was two. I’m not sure how rare my case is, that my uncle was kind enough to give me Wolf 3D and Doom at that age. I’m sure though, that if the young Doom fans stay active in the community, then we could prolong Doomworld’s life.
Comment by Bill Olischar — 1/28/2007 @ 10:33 am
Doom will never die as long as we keep playing it and sites keep hosting levels for it. The forums though are another thing. They seem very cliqueish and when a new member makes a mistake they ofter get banned with no recourse. I got kicked off the doomworld forum for making a post about my best of doom wads site. Then got kicked off the newdoom forum for sending a PM to Doom Dude asking if it was unacceptable to post about my site there. He just banned me without even replying. I had not even posted anything! EddyM4814
Comment by eddym4814 — 2/20/2008 @ 11:54 pm