What Ever Happened to Quandary?

Post by **zobraks** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 9:32 am

Does anyone know what's going on with the Australian adventure games-related site Quandary?

I can't reach it for days now, neither with FF, nor with the Explorer.

Post by **Scaryfun** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 10:37 pm

Yeah I noticed this in past week too... hoping it's temporary.

NE0 · Post by **NE0** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 11:14 pm

Site redesign? hope not

Post by AD » Wed Aug 06, 2008 4:09 am

It's dead. Adventure sites are too amateurish.

Post by **Scaryfun** » Wed Aug 06, 2008 4:26 am

For a site focusing on a genre the general gaming press considers "dead", it's been around for many years. I read that http://metzomagic.com/ has mirrored some of the old game reviews found on there so not all is lost. Still, it's a sad loss.

Post by **zobraks** » Wed Aug 06, 2008 7:19 am

I can't believe it went just like that.

It was practically ran by a couple of people, but had the largest stock of reviews of little-known/obscure adventures I first heard of there. It would be a damn shame if there were no more Quandary.

Post by AD » Wed Aug 06, 2008 2:45 pm

Their farewell message. (click to read)

"It's time to move to new horizons" is damn #1 popular excuse for closing down a site or a project.
And #2 is "We couldn't afford to keep the site online anymore so we killed all the content and sold the domain name to "CatchThatMonkey Software". Please respect the new owner. Their toolbar seems like pretty handy thing."

(I hope #2 is not the case of Quandaryland.)

Post by **zobraks** » Wed Aug 06, 2008 3:03 pm

S(beep!)t!

Farewell to Rosemary and Gordon!

Thanks for the info AD.

Post by **Virgil** » Wed Aug 06, 2008 4:10 pm

"We couldn't afford to keep the site online anymore so we killed all the content and sold the domain name to "CatchThatMonkey Software". Please respect the new owner. Their toolbar seems like pretty handy thing."

They deleted all the content? What the hell? Were they drunk. I don't think it was a big deal to ask visitors for help.

Post by **zobraks** » Wed Aug 06, 2008 4:19 pm

Virgil wrote:They deleted all the content?

No, they didn't. You can find it at Steve Metzler's site (thank God).

Where did you find that quote Virgil?

Never mind, just saw that AD has edited his post.

NE0 · Post by **NE0** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 7:27 pm

It's a sad sad day in AdventureLand....RIP Quandary....the good side is that Steve mirrored everything besides the site design