Old Wargamer Forums

[Fred98]

ORIGINAL: Greybriar

ORIGINAL: EICJoe

How long ago was this? I don't actually know where that form points to, but you can always email me directly on:

joer [at] wargamer [dot] com

It was last weekend. I tried to log in using my username (Greybriar) and password from the old Wargamer forums. When I couldn't get logged in, I clicked on the "Forgotten Password" button and got an automated response. When I did what I was advised to do, it didn't work and I got an error message...something about the passwords being archived, I think--a full description was in the "Contact Us" email I sent to whomever. Attempting to log on again did no good and now I'm getting the message: "You exceeded the maximum allowed number of login attempts. In addition to your username and password you now also have to solve the CAPTCHA below."

I'm tired of jumping through hoops and if whoever the "Contact Us" button directs to is too busy to respond to user inquiries, I really don't have any desire to belong to such a forum anyway.

I too had the same issue about 4 years ago and then once a year every year since

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[WargamerJoe]

Hey guys,

So I will check where 'Contact Us' emails go to - it certainly isn't me, so that's probably a legacy thing we have to switch over from the last EIC.

GreyBriar: I've sent you an email to your gmail account. Your password has been reset, so hopefully you can login in now without issue.

If anyone else who hasn't logged in since the new forums were put in place wants to, please email me directly before you try. I'll reset your passwords as well just to be sure.

I thought Matrixgames owned Wargamer.com and its content. Has that changed?

Matrix Games shares "common ownership" with Wargamer Ltd., which runs Wargamer & Pocket Tactics. They don't own the content as far as I know but my Content Rights/Ownership legal knowledge is a little rusty. Wargamer Ltd. should own the content though.

Im glad your here. Please find out where it is and restore it. There were too many great topics to be lost. Why would your company exclude or delete it?

Before my time I'm afraid - it may have been a consequence of the migration. I'll see what I can find out.

[Greybriar]

ORIGINAL: EICJoe

Hey guys,

So I will check where 'Contact Us' emails go to - it certainly isn't me, so that's probably a legacy thing we have to switch over from the last EIC.

GreyBriar: I've sent you an email to your gmail account. Your password has been reset, so hopefully you can login in now without issue....

That fixed it, thanks.

[IntrepidMan]

Before my time I'm afraid - it may have been a consequence of the migration. I'll see what I can find out.

It was up about a week or two ago. Is the only way it wouldve disappeared is if someone deliberately deleted it?

[wodin]

Massive thanks!!

New companies coming on board for us to review their games\Toy Soldiers\Minifigs all the time, so the future looks bright:)

ORIGINAL: Marcus the leper

I absolutely love your site Jason, keep up the great work. I really enjoy the in depth reviews of both the PC games you have done and the board games. Outstanding stuff.

[Zap]

I'm the first regular Joe to post on your new forum congrats.



As far as the Wargamer site I do visit there occasionally, read the reviews but have never registered.

[bayonetbrant]

ORIGINAL: Marcus the leper

Alot of the voices that i went there to hear seem to have left as well. I almost never visit the forums, but, I still go to read the reviews and articles if they pertain to anything that interests me. Armchair General stopped publishing as well, wow, I am getting old. "Where have you gone Joe Dimaggio..."

many of those voices are still in the forums over at GrogHeads, and cue Jason's inevitable rant...

[bayonetbrant]

ORIGINAL: GJK

Was that "Old Wargamer" site mostly about tabletop (miniature and board) gaming or was it mostly Old Wargamers gaming in the New medium (computer)?

Gary, it's the original WGer forums where most of us met you, before the S&M guys merged Pocket Tactics and The Wargamer and rebooted the entire site with a new set of forums. They left the old ones up for a while at old.wargamer.com but recently shut it down. 15+ years of game discussion archives nuked.

[wings7]

ORIGINAL: bayonetbrant
15+ years of game discussion archives nuked.

The archives have to be on a storage drive somewhere...[&:] [:(]

[IntrepidMan]

Alright good, theyre back up. Crisis averted-

http://old.wargamer.com/forums/threads.asp?f=166

[CaptBeefheart]

I click that link and it looked like half the threads were related to conspiracy theories.

Cheers,
CC

[Blond_Knight]

Yeah, looks like its become quite the lunatic hangout.

[Zap]

ORIGINAL: Commander Cody

I click that link and it looked like half the threads were related to conspiracy theories.

Cheers,
CC

That link was suspicious. Taking you to that particular forum. I clicked on to [all] it took me to the discussions the OP was referring to on the game discussion.

[IntrepidMan]

I really dont get why they didnt include the original forum in the new format. The original is much better organized and visually superior.

http://old.wargamer.com/forums/
vs
http://www.wargamer.com/forum/

[CaptBeefheart]

The tinfoil hat wearers were on the general discussion page. The other pages were normal.

Cheers,
CC

[wodin]

?

No rant, infact like to know the last time I started a rant not in response to something... Just not sure why you can't let things go? This, the article you did in April about sexism...we had an unpleasant issue nearly fours years ago..I'm well over it all. Trying to get some major rant out of me by giving me a prod doesn't work anymore, we all really need to get along.

Grogheads is a good forum..and have no issue who does and who doesn't post over there.

J

ORIGINAL: bayonetbrant

ORIGINAL: Marcus the leper

Alot of the voices that i went there to hear seem to have left as well. I almost never visit the forums, but, I still go to read the reviews and articles if they pertain to anything that interests me. Armchair General stopped publishing as well, wow, I am getting old. "Where have you gone Joe Dimaggio..."

many of those voices are still in the forums over at GrogHeads, and cue Jason's inevitable rant...

[IntrepidMan]

This is also a key resource on the original forum. Ive bought a dozen items here-

Sell or Trade Forum
http://old.wargamer.com/forums/threads.asp?f=182

[VPaulus]

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