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the_logos · 01-31-2008, 04:49 PM

No reason you have to stay IC in an in-world meeting. Also, while I agree that at the beginning you can probably expect most of your players to use your forums, you will end up missing out on many/most players if/as you get larger. By definition everyone who plays the game is in-game at some time or another, but past a certain size the majority of players don't use the forums. (It's less than 10% on games like WoW, though by that size you're long past being able to have real conversations with any meaningful percentage of the pbase.)

In any case, the important thing is just that you're reaching an representative cross-section of your players (or basically all of them if you're small), whether that's via in-game, forums, IRC, or going and visiting them one by one in person.

--matt

01-31-2008, 04:49 PM	#20
the_logos Legend Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Mill Valley, California Posts: 2,305	Re: How not to be still-born No reason you have to stay IC in an in-world meeting. Also, while I agree that at the beginning you can probably expect most of your players to use your forums, you will end up missing out on many/most players if/as you get larger. By definition everyone who plays the game is in-game at some time or another, but past a certain size the majority of players don't use the forums. (It's less than 10% on games like WoW, though by that size you're long past being able to have real conversations with any meaningful percentage of the pbase.) In any case, the important thing is just that you're reaching an representative cross-section of your players (or basically all of them if you're small), whether that's via in-game, forums, IRC, or going and visiting them one by one in person. --matt