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Poll: Where you do prefer to get notices about website updates and enhancements?
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We have been doing fairly regular updates to the site, and we’re curious where is the best place to announce/list the updates..
Do you only read Flamebate, the Blog, Twitter, Facebook..? Do you read a few of them? What is your primary source (and preferred source) of information?
I suppose this is also a good idea to give people direction to our various means of communication. Links can often be found at the bottom of the site too Log in to see images!
Flamebate (do I really need to add this link??): http://www.forumwarz.com/discussions Blog: http://blog.forumwarz.com Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/forumwarz Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/inbox/#/pages/Forumwarz/9690286340?ref=ts BINGEBOT 2015 edited this message on 12/11/2008 11:33AM |
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Posted On: 12/10/2008 11:56AM | View BINGEBOT 2015's Profile | # | ||||||
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Woo first vote.
Yeah, flamebate all the way. |
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Posted On: 12/10/2008 11:57AM | View DesdiPhoenix's Profile | # | ||||||
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7. Any and all ways you can, I don’t read one source consistently.
I read the Twitter, Blog, and Flamebate. If you bookmark the blog it’s only a click away for two update places. |
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Posted On: 12/10/2008 12:00PM | View CrinkzPipe's Profile | # | ||||||
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Black Boxes.
Though, Black Boxes that link to a flamebate post would be better. |
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Posted On: 12/10/2008 12:01PM | View Are-'s Profile | # | ||||||
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Crinkz Posted:
There’s also a link to the blog at the bottom of every site page. That’s a scroll/click. |
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Posted On: 12/10/2008 12:02PM | View MC Banhammer's Profile | # | ||||||
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MC Banhammer Posted:
Never noticed that before. |
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Posted On: 12/10/2008 12:04PM | View CrinkzPipe's Profile | # | ||||||
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post count +1 also whiny ****es in flamebate Log in to see images! |
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Posted On: 12/10/2008 12:13PM | View Shinobu's Profile | # | ||||||
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All of you voting for the black box — you do realize that we don’t have an option to get rid of those, right? That they’d have to be timed to go away, so site update history would be lost if that’s the only way?
And do you really want these entries pushing your character information down the screen? |
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Posted On: 12/10/2008 12:17PM | View MC Banhammer's Profile | # | ||||||
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Black boxes that lead to a blog post would be preferable for big news. Seeing as the boxes go away, having the blog for reference would still be the best solution, but being notified by box would be cool King Krimson edited this message on 12/10/2008 12:19PM |
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Posted On: 12/10/2008 12:17PM | View King Krimson's Profile | # | ||||||
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Both Flamebate and blog. And maybe the black box for very important updates – updates that really influence the gameplay, e.g. if forums became significantly harder. But mostly Flamebate and blog. |
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Posted On: 12/10/2008 12:21PM | View FalCoN's Profile | # | ||||||
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Black box for updates that significantly affect gameplay, since people who just play the game won’t visit the blog, twitter, or flamebate. Blog for general announcements and ‘behind the scenes’ stuff, or anything that requires more than one or two lines to describe. Twitter for minor changes, status updates, and other quick blurbs. Flamebate for things that require user feedback, like this thread.
That’s basically the way things are now, it just needs to be codified as procedure.
The reasons for this is simple: The black box is invasive, annoying, and as near as I can tell impossible to hide or remove. That makes it perfect for it’s job, as it should only be used for short messages that people NEED to see. It’s the “You are going to ****ing pay attention to me” way of telling players things.
The blog is like a dumptruck; you can load so much **** into it that it just feels wrong to post in it for tiny chucks of text. Also, smaller messages clutter things up while pushing the larger posts off the page.
Twitter is ideal for having lots of short messages, so anything that doesn’t warrant a flood of text (Hi!) can be easily handled there.
Flamebate lets users respond without having to make/login-to a different account on a different service; if they play forumwarz, they can just go into the thread and contribute. That makes it perfect for getting feedback from the community (Moreso for ideas and suggestions than sample data – threads skew early and often if you’re trying to get facts out of them) |
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Posted On: 12/10/2008 12:58PM | View SimplyTHEBEST's Profile | # | ||||||
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SimplyTHEBEST Posted:
I couldn’t have said it better myself. I just wasn’t sure if this opinion was shared with the mbumes Log in to see images! |
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Posted On: 12/10/2008 1:57PM | View BINGEBOT 2015's Profile | # | ||||||
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I don’t suppose there’s a more efficient way to put public messages on the homepage besides the dreaded black boxes? Either way I agree front-page alerts should only be for important things, like ‘The site is going down’ or ‘Your hacker doesn’t attack for **** now’. |
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Posted On: 12/10/2008 2:01PM | View Guy Snortococci's Profile | # | ||||||
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There aren’t links to the blog within flamebate when I have IDC open. The whole line of links goes away actually.
If the links were there I’d be more likely to check the blog frequently as I like the blog and twitter updates. |
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Posted On: 12/10/2008 2:02PM | View TUBSWEETIE's Profile | # | ||||||
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I’m in the habit of checking Flambebate, blog and twitter. Black bar for serious updates. Blog as a formal record of things and twitter/flamebate as you go. A site based link to the twitter page might be nice, since you seem to announce changes there first. |
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Posted On: 12/10/2008 2:54PM | View scully's Profile | # | ||||||
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For me, the answer is, none of the above are quite adequate.
I don’t want to have to search in multiple of these locations for major, minor or trivial updates, especially ones which are time sensitive (alot of them, for different reasons) I’d much prefer to see them all in the same place, and I want that to be immediately accessible whenever I log in. As a small example of the problems – playing dom against players who weren’t aware of the changes to the ties rule was frustrating, both for me when I was offering players ties, and later for those who realised they’d just shot themselves in the foot. So really, I want other players who are considerably lazier than myself to have a fair chance of seeing these changes as well.
Have a look at the way Kingdom of Loathing does announcements. They put some thought into it and it works well, both as a means of disseminating information, and keeping the community energised about the game. The latter is the reason why you shouldn’t be hiding game enhancement announcements in blogs, twitters and flamebate (with multiple forums to check since announcements may be relevant to one but not another, e.g. domination, forumbuildr, the core game)
Something should be on the character page, which players will see if they’re active, but it should be an integral part, and not quite so intrusive as the black bar at the top e.g. a list of major and minor updates in the sidebar, leading to something more comprehensive in a dedicated forum. Such a forum may mirror the blog and/or twitter combined but it needs to be an integral part of the site. Or reuse the tutorial style prompts for game update information, so players can just click the x after having read them. meeeeeeeeee edited this message on 12/10/2008 4:35PM |
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Posted On: 12/10/2008 4:32PM | View meeeeeeeeee's Profile | # | ||||||
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Black boxes are cool, because you almost certainly will not miss it. This is best |
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Posted On: 12/10/2008 4:34PM | View Inertia's Profile | # | ||||||
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meeeeeeeeee Posted:
You mean the hints? I’d be down with that. |
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Posted On: 12/10/2008 4:38PM | View MC Banhammer's Profile | # | ||||||
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MC Banhammer Posted:
Me too… The black boxes is ****-annoying, but the hints are fine, since once you’ve read them, they can be removed and recovered later in case of “SS or never happened” issues. |
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Posted On: 12/10/2008 4:42PM | View BirdReynods's Profile | # | ||||||
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the black box is cool and you can make sure, everybody reads it. I also read the blog, where I get the twitter news. |
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Posted On: 12/10/2008 4:43PM | View Aldo_Anything's Profile | # | ||||||