Dual-Wielding LFG Edition – Player Community in MMO’s

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community, dual wielding, fan forum, fanbase, fansite, gamer community, lfg edition, mmo community, player events, playerbase

Dual Wielding LFG Edition – Sometimes a topic is just too big for a couple of bloggers on their own. That’s when we send out the call, and see who steps up to help us with the challenge. This week, in the final edition of Dual Wielding, we’ve put together a three person team to tackle the question, “What can players do to foster community?”

Be sure to check out the responses by Aywren and Mersault on this topic!

Last time we were here, there was a big and juicy discussion about how MMO devs can create a stronger sense of community. That all said, I wholly agree that building a community in these games is a two-way street. So Mersault put out the call to tackle the question of what players can do to help.

Blaugust Day 25 – Metrics

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box sales, community, fanbase, metrics, MMO, numbers, playerbase, size, sub numbers

Blaugust has shown me a lot of things, all of which I will ruminate upon at the close of the marathon along with, likely, every other person partaking.  The most immediate thing that is springing to mind right now is that little graph thing right there.

That is my views and visitors day-to-day, snapshotted from this morning.  I passively peer around in there from time to time just because I’m easily amused by the fact that I have a couple of clicks from people in the Philippines and Estonia.  But I have noticed a rather obvious downward slope in my viewership.  I attribute it to the fact that this Blaugust thing is perhaps beginning to erode on some people.

Does that make me a terrible writer or blogger though?  Why do metrics matter?  And, for that matter, why do we care so damned much about metrics in MMO’s?