Comments on: Platinum Games Selects WordPress.com VIP

By: February Wrap-Up « Blog « WordPress.com

February Wrap-Up « Blog « WordPress.com — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:50:45 +0000

[...] video game development studio, Platinum Games, joined WordPress.com [...]

By: Steven

Steven — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:53:20 +0000

I think the website is very well produced, it looks great, given that alot of other wordpress or other gaming websites I have come accross feature little more than generic layouts, that have not been thought out well, this one however seems very appealing.

One more thing, the Date.Of.Birth selection screen is, I have always thought pretty pointless. Children can easily lie, although this is obviosly a legal requirement for the website?

By: ngernert

ngernert — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:23:07 +0000

@Tommy – The forums were already set in place from Sega (the publisher of the MadWorld and Bayonetta games) before development of the PlatinumGames site began. Sega had the vBulletin system in place that PG could tap into which reduced the amount of support and upfront development costs needed from PG’s end. They even allowed some flexibility in skinning the forums which was nice to keep the experience consistent.

bbPress would have been an awesome fit for this, but given what was already in place it just made sense to use what was already available.

By: Raanan Bar-Cohen

Raanan Bar-Cohen — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:58:16 +0000

@Tommy –

The forum is hosted elsewhere — not on our WordPress.com VIP grid. But for more details on their selection I’m sure someone from Platinum Games or cnp_studio can provide more info.

By: Tommy

Tommy — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:58:32 +0000

The forums look like VBulletin? Why not bbPress?