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Alpharius wrote:This is sad!

I'd hate for BoW to wither away, or fade into the shadows...

I just wanted to take a second and point out that they have still been posting new content on their site, it's just hosted on a different video provider at the moment.

That said, their extensive backlog of stuff is still inaccessible, so I do hope that either they are able to determine what is going on with YouTube, or are able to repost the old material on their new provider.

I guess I should have been a bit more clear - I was worried that the lack of major exposure via YouTube would cause them to wither or fade into the shadows, but I suppose they could find a new way back into the hearts and minds of gamers!

Mantics have sent out a newsletter linking to BoW for tonight's big reveal
Should help a bit to get people's attention

I hope that BoW has a big enough following and their presence will see them through.

Tell the rest of us what happend!

There is a" Back stage Pass" now available for a subscription.

Wondering if they will go back to Youtube now.

I don't understand why they are steadfastly refusing to tell anybody about what happened.

This page is 7 threads long---and everyone is anticipating tonight's show. I think that's probably your answer .

The whole site seems to have gone down at the moment

Yeah, I can't seem to get on to their site either....me thinks these guys need to sort themselves out or give it up

Shame about tonight's show. It seems to be the season for hyping yourself up and getting egg on your face.

Site got overloaded I think

Watch on Justin TV
http://www.justin.tv/beastsofwar
which looks like is still fine touch rabbit's foot

So it will carry on regardless

On the "Firing up" video, they mention that their entire datacenter has been fried by the overload...

The mighty power of the beast!

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:Site got overloaded I think

Watch on Justin TV
http://www.justin.tv/beastsofwar
which looks like is still fine touch rabbit's foot

So it will carry on regardless

Thanks for the link.

Hmm, well, Allessio Cavatore and Ronny Renton have shown up. Dunno who Ronny is...

It's started...

Buzzsaw wrote:Hmm, well, Allessio Cavatore and Ronny Renton have shown up. Dunno who Ronny is...

He's the guy behind Mantic Games.

I fully expect this to be mantic's big sci-fi game announcement (with accompanying bow backstage pass beta).
Hopefully we get the full scoop on the youtube issue as well.

Subscribed!

Haha! They just mentioned us on Turn 8, and the head speaker revealed his certification of Journalism.

Haha, this very thread has been mentioned... and certificates of Journalistic merit have been presented.

Edit: it's a reference to the exchange that started with this.

Edit 2: Oh, thank goodness... they will be re-uploading all the stuff that was taken down off youtube. I can sleep easier now (not even kidding, they had some great vids).

I believe Ronnie is the main guy behind Mantic, Buzzsaw.

OK so they say they either got banned for suspicious activity or a bot detected something suspicious and banned them automatically.

And here's the link to the new channel:

http://www.youtube.com/TheBeastsofWar

I was interested when he hinted at a legal letter.

I don't have the nerve to watch this mix of Wayne's World and Blair Witch Project, with the moderator drinking beer to prepare for the great show. Someone please sum up the facts, thanks.

Kroothawk wrote:I don't have the nerve to watch this mix of Wayne's World and Blair Witch Project, with the moderator drinking beer to prepare for the great show. Someone please sum up the facts, thanks.

Mantic Games big announcement... Warpath

New Sci-fi game to be released in October.


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28mm with vehicles, units, big battles, round bases...

Sounds like a direct challenge to 40K. Hopefully they will make viable alternative models as they are much cheaper than GW.


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Great show! Lots of news to digest. Glad to see them still going strong, to bad for the youtube thing.

Yes and 8 races as well

warren hinted at a letter, been the reason the vids were removed

Great fun

New races coming out for KoW
New DKH game with orcs and Elves
and some stuff about fishmen in spaaaaace

Sounds like Youtube are being a bunch of bottomholes.
Also glad they won't lose the back catalogue of videos.

loki old fart wrote:Yes and 8 races to as well

warren hinted at a letter, been the reason the vids were removed

I'm not sure that's how I would classify it... my impression was that it could be one of a few things, and apparently YouTube sees no need to expend any energy in figuring it out. It either was an automated shut-down, or it could have been a letter, or some other things, but what's most interesting to me is the fact that YouTube has a policy to not inquire as to the legitimacy of a letter, if they get a letter from a lawyer, they just close the account.

Even if, as the lads point out, they are entirely entitled to the material.

Before anyone goes claiming censorship, remember that YouTube pays for that bandwidth; they have no more obligation to publish legitimate material then DakkaDakka does.

Buzzsaw wrote:

loki old fart wrote:Yes and 8 races to as well

warren hinted at a letter, been the reason the vids were removed

I'm not sure that's how I would classify it... my impression was that it could be one of a few things, and apparently YouTube sees no need to expend any energy in figuring it out. It either was an automated shut-down, or it could have been a letter, or some other things, but what's most interesting to me is the fact that YouTube has a policy to not inquire as to the legitimacy of a letter, if they get a letter from a lawyer, they just close the account.

Even if, as the lads point out, they are entirely entitled to the material.

Before anyone goes claiming censorship, remember that YouTube pays for that bandwidth; they have no more obligation to publish legitimate material then DakkaDakka does.

It does not matter who pays, if you claim to be free and open (like all Google products claim to be), then censorship is censorship, do they have the right to do it? that is a different issue, but it is still censorship.

You know all the past weeks talks about finecast, BOWyoutube etc all a bit to depressing IMO but the last vid with news for a new scifi game news about some new gobbos and a new dungeon crawler etc it was really refreshing to see what news about wargamming should all be about... fun times