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A majority of the website is new now. What about sections that have been untouched, like the store? Are there plans to revamp that throughout the rest of the year?

TL;DRThe new website is only a first stage focused on separating Star Citizen, Squadron 42 and the community; they say they will work on the store, subscriber and community sections, rolling out pieces gradually.

Cloud Imperium

Yeah, yeah, I mean, I think the newsletter's going to come out today that will basically say that. So what the website that we just launched is just Stage 1, and really that was sort of focusing on separating out Star Citizen and Squadron and then the community, which is basically the RSI side and the store, because the old website, if you went to it, and you're like, okay, I've heard about Star Citizen, it's like this information overload, how do I get the game, where do I go, what's the game about, it's not very obvious for the site, so the site that we've rolled out, we feel like does a better job of that. I mean, I did notice people commenting, going, oh, it just seems the same, but that's mostly because the site's also smart, so if you've already got an account or you're already logged in, it's taking you to the default places that you normally go, like the community section, which of course haven't changed much, right? They've become a little less cluttered because we moved some of the elements of the Star Citizen and Squadron stuff to be moved to its own parts, but it hasn't changed, or the store hasn't really changed either, and those are things, so we wanted to get those sort of, like, hey, the Star Citizen thing seems cool, or I want to get into it, so we sort of focused on that, the beginning, not so much the later store experience of, oh, well, now I want to upgrade my ship, or it's more just like, hey, I've heard about Star Citizen, can I give you $40 to become a part of it? And so that was what the focus was for the current site and also making Squadron and Star Citizen so it wasn't so confusing that you understood, okay, this is a single-player game, this is the massively multiplayer online game, and explaining it and having some tutorials because previously most of the stuff was fans, I mean, basically our fans do a great job of educating and showing and all the streamers do the same thing, which is awesome, so don't stop doing that. But we felt like we should do it better, so it's the first step, but we are absolutely going to be working on the subscriber side, the concierge side had a bit of a revamp, which is kind of cool, the subscriber side, the store needs a lot of work, and then just sort of the community development section again, yeah, we're going to work on that. It just takes time and we'd rather roll out bits as we go along, otherwise it becomes overwhelming.

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Published on this date.27 Jan 2018