In 1999 I was introduced to a (FPS) First Person Shooter called Delta Force. My SVP (Senior Vice President) who I worked with, put it on my desk and said, you have to try this, it’s awesome. I wasn’t big into games back than, but what the heck he seemed excited about it so I gave it a go. I got home and guess what? In about 4 hours I was hooked-line and sinker! I had to take this to the next level, and that was to create a fan site for the game made by a company called Novalogic.
I started to search the internet to see who else had the same idea. I found only 3 sites, but they only offered patches, wallpaper and few other things. I started planning on what to offer and how to create a fan base second to none.
Bingo! I created forums, tournaments, Player of the Week (POTW) and so much more. The site launched on
10/8/1999 about 6 Months after the game was released, better late than never. By April of 2000 the site took off to the point I had to upgrade our server. By August 2000 we were averaging 25 million page views per month with more than 10,000 members in our forums.
The site was called DFWorld.com, and that name became household with many gamers ages 13 to 50. DFWorld.com was a full time job so I brought on some help, and a lot of it. We also had 3 game servers covering different game types for Delta Force. The game types were Team King of the Hill (TKOTH), Capture the Flag (CTF), and Team Death Match (TDM).
DFWorld.com was a very tight community and from that we had LAN parties all over the USA.
Unfortunately, I sold the domain and the web site around March 2001. The site started to lose it’s swagger because Novalogic orphaned the original Delta Force in mid-2000, and for good reason. They put their focus on upcoming releases, thus retiring Delta Force 1.
DFWorld is no longer live on the internet. I have tried to contact the current owner as I was thinking about starting up the web site to re-introduce old friends and to re-establish the sites popularity.
I would like to hopefully hear from one of our popular fans. Have you ever played Delta Force (The Original Release)? Were you a regular at DFWorld.com?
Wow. That’s cool. I hope you get to re-establish what you created. Man 25million views a month? You must have sold it for a pretty penny!
Not at all, the value dropped once Novalogic stop providing support. Plus, when they released their 2nd addition many of the members didn’t like DF 2.
More than $1000, but less than $10,000.
I am also great fan of FPS games . I hope you get it back online and on the right track son :)
You were surely getting some serious traffic back in the past !
Everyone has a game from their past that they love, no matter how dated the graphics are. Unfortunately, times change, and so do games.
I played Delta Force once, but I think it’s a different game than the one you’re talking about.
This reminds me of CS (CounterStrike).. it hasn’t gone dead for years now!
Nice post, I have not heard anybody talk about this game in a while. I was really into df2 and df3. I reinstalled df3 a couple of months ago and found out there are still some open servers and active players.
I Was browsing the web trying to find some info on df world and look what i found? very cool. I was a regular on the site and played in tournaments. Delta Force was the best team based FPS I ever played. I miss the community and all of the competition.
I’m glad to see you honor it with a write up.
Elk very cool comment. Do you remember the original owner of DFWorld? It was a great community with the best tournaments and prizes.
Francis? Is that you – the creator of dfworld?
If so, I don’t know if you remember me or not, but I played under the name “HellFish.” I was in Mr., *I*, GNS, -=rp=-, and maybe a few more… its been a long time.
Anyway, if this is you, I just wanted to see how you were doing and say thank you for making the site. Playing DF has been the most fun I have had playing a video game, and it wouldn’t have been so without DFworld. The tournaments were like no other game can produce today – in my opinion because of the tight knit community DF had. Anyway, just wanted to see how you were doing. I Google searched DFworld to see if I could find anything left on the game or its players. I would love to stumble on some old screen shots or something. Anyway, it was a great time that I wished could have never ended. Send me an e-mail anytime
-HF
Hellfish,
Yes I remember you! And yes this is Franny from DFW. I am doing well and living in the Chicago area and you would never believe who I work for. Eric “AOD Raven” referred me to a job with a start-up company as a community manager so I accepted and moved from Las Vegas to Chicago. I had moved from New York a year after 9-11 to Vegas.
I tried to buy back DWorld.com 6 months ago but the owner never returned my calls, go figure.
My email is boscony@yahoo.com keep in touch man!
Hello Francies you might not remeber me but names Bulldog.
I was in SAS, Fr and ml(coldplays squad)..
i also googles dfworld and found this…You had the best Website mate. Everybody had a ball and jesus didnt he have flamers on there*Hint BIG LONDON** Remeber him.
Nice to see your still thinking about dfworld cause i sure iam.
Bulldog,
Yes I remember you and thanks for stopping by. The days of DFWorld were a lot of fun for me with some bad moments, but that came with running a popular site. Hellfish also found me here as well. Stay in touch!
I wonder if *I is still around lol :)
WHat games you playing online now Francies? any chance dfworld.com going back up for old times sake?
Hey Bulldog!
I am not sure if and who plays anymore. I have tried to contact the owner of DFWorld.com to re-purchase the domain and setup forums, but he never returned my calls. There’s a new Delta Force game coming out, but I no longer get beta copies anymore so I have no way of provding a review.
Glad to hear from you again!
Well, well… look what the net popped up! Hope all’s well Frank. If you get the site back up you’ll see me there just for old times sake.
Say hello to Eric and the whole family for me. I’m sure the kids are all grown up now.
Cheers,
David Jancso
aka Miracle
Oh my look who it is? Miracle how have you been? I hope all is well and you’re the 4th person from the DFW days that has discovered this site through online search. I tried to contact the owner of DFW to purchase the domain back, but he never returns my calls. I may do something soon but name it something else and just have the forums which were fun!
do you remember meeting up in Atlanta and i got wasted and threw up on someones keyboard? lol
Of course I do. You never liked me back than, but hey it was still a lot of fun. You sure made a mess at Eric’s place, but we all had a blast!
How have you been?
Elk,
Check it out http://www.dfworld.info
Pass this on to anyone you have contacts with that played the game or was a fan of DFWorld.
Barrett,
Check it out http://www.dfworld.info
Pass this on to anyone you have contacts with that played the game or was a fan of DFWorld.
Bulldog,
Check it out http://www.dfworld.info
Pass this on to anyone you have contacts with that played the game or was a fan of DFWorld.