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I am a huge chocolate stout fan also. I didn't really like Samuel Smith's chocolate stout though. If I could work in a brewery I'd be happy for life.
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
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Ditto. Some of us just don't feel the need to shit up every thread with shoulders too big and too much brown banter. Does not mean we aren't here!
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You're here... You're just... Inactive. It's not an insult. I was inactive on this board for months, and on FOH for years at a time.
Seriously though, should we start a rerolled EQnext guild thread or what?
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Wouldn't do it on a regular server if Eqn is popular would probably migrate back to my old guild. Would do it as secondary guild on test server to hit new content or beta.You're here... You're just... Inactive. It's not an insult. I was inactive on this board for months, and on FOH for years at a time.
Seriously though, should we start a rerolled EQnext guild thread or what?
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You're thinking about content you want to consume though. Marketers think about content they want consumed. Having someone post, even every few weeks, still proves you have eyes on content here. In terms of social marketing, this board is an origination point for broader marketing--in other words, you plant the seeds here (And other "core" communities) and they might sprout across larger media, like Reddit, Facebook or Youtube (If it's a little video.)
Also, it's not solely about size. It's also about the type of community. Where most people here are hardcore gamers, a lot of them frequent other social sites about games. Where as if you were to toss something up in a less homogenous social site, it might hit a lot of people that don't know how to spread your particular message, because they don't talk in the right mediums.
Anyway, social marketing is the hip new field--places like these, insular communities that have deep roots in more diverse sites, are great places for shills to do a little work. But the flip side is, insular communities tend to police very well, too, so it's more difficult to plant stuff here. In a way, people like Ut are part of the reason this is a good place to get info out, and part of the reason it's bad.
Inactive, in my head, means that you visit the forums once a month. I would consider an account active if it's routinely viewing threads with or without an account. It's all about the eyeballs and not necessarily about how many posts.
I lurked for YEARS on fohguild until one day I made an account, and then I couldn't get it to send me an email so then I lurked for like 10 more years. Its weird how you can just read forums and feel like you know people even though you never said anything yourself really. I'm sure theres plenty on here that just check in to see if theres new info or drama but don't care to waste time posting, thats how I felt.You're here... You're just... Inactive. It's not an insult. I was inactive on this board for months, and on FOH for years at a time.
Seriously though, should we start a rerolled EQnext guild thread or what?
As with all communities the active posters are the vocal minority. Those people might only post once a week (if that), but they browse the forums daily. The point was that the traffic this community gets is pretty high. It was even higher on FoH before everything went to shit. Anyone who thinks that Brad/Curt weren't just trying to sell something is pretty naive. Word of mouth advertising can spread like herpes on the internet, and a bunch of rabid gamers can be pretty damn vocal. It is a pretty safe bet that people who actively post here also post in other communities as well.
I think some people just don't want to admit that Brad/Curt were not here because they care about what you think. Curt was part of literally dozens of "Why WoW-clones suck" conversations over on FoH. Did you get a good look at the game he was making? It was the fucking poster child for WoW-clones. He wasn't taking anything people said seriously, he just liked that the 38 Studios thread was being bumped to the top of the forums and had people talking about his non-existent MMO. Brad was doing the same shit. Talking about how amazing his game is when in reality it was a shell of what it should of been.
Personally I don't care if devs want to sell their games here. I'd encourage it actually. Just do it with some fucking integrity. If your product is a steaming pile of garbage that isn't even going to get launched (Hi Curt), don't waste our time with your "It will change the world!" speeches.
Everyones baby is beautiful. They arn't going to come on here and go my shit sucks I wouldn't recommend it, lets talk about another game. They on here tryin to make that moneys.
Obviously. They are intelligent men though and should be aware of glaring problems. Curt's company was a fucking disaster, and the game they were making was about as WoW-clone as it can get. Brad would of known the state Vanguard was going to launch in as well. If they didn't know any of that....well that is a problem too heh. I'd want to hear from them even less if they really didn't know what was going on with their games/companies.
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I agree with the dev comments and that a lot of peeps don't feel the need to make posts where they quote to say "I agree".
Yeah, this thread has been going in circles for a long time now. It will be nice to actually scream abuse at each other over real information.
Going to be a pretty grim day for a lot of people I think.