{"id":6785,"date":"2019-05-21T17:34:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T15:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldofpadman.net\/?p=6785"},"modified":"2021-01-12T09:56:53","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T08:56:53","slug":"the-wop-news-of-the-year-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldofpadman.net\/en\/news\/the-wop-news-of-the-year-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"The WoP news of the year 2003"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the pre-Christmas season of the last year, we had already dealt quite intensively with the early history of World of Padman and put in this context, the old PadFiles (ENTE’s PadMaps, the old Padman player model and related alternative skins) for Quake 3 Arena<\/a>, Star Trek: Voyager – Elite Force<\/a> and Star Wars Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast<\/a> on our website available for download. Unfortunately, we still lack the alternative Padman Skin “Skull Overlord” by Da Reaper, to which we have already launched a so far unsuccessful search request<\/a>. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

We also keep ourselves busy with the media coverage<\/a> of World of Padman in the past and we want to present as many of the press articles as possible on our website. While some publishers and editorial staff are very kind to us and did not hesitate to give us permission to publish, others can not or do not want to give us permission. One of the major publishers even demands royalties that would easily be in a four-digit range, which of course is absolutely exaggerated and completely absurd for a non-commercial website like ours. \ud83d\ude2f<\/p>\n

With video contributions it is sometimes not easy to determine when exactly they were broadcast, so in this context it helps to do some research in the old WoP news. Despite the lack of a backup, thanks to web.archive.org<\/a>, we succeeded in restoring the WoP news of the year 2003<\/a> in German and English, at least in textual form. At that time, most of the news was written in German by ENTE<\/a> and translated into English by Harmonieman<\/a>, partly with the support of the English speaking PadMember. Where the translations could no longer be restored, we have now translated and supplemented these later and editorially revised the news partly. Also, the associated image material of many postings, although incomplete, could be found and incorporated. Among those images, however, are also partially thumbnails, which of course have a very poor resolution. But that is better than nothing. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

In the following we want to summarize the year 2003 of World of Padman. WoP was in the second year of its development as a modification for Quake 3 Arena and is was announced to be released in December as a beta version.<\/p>\n