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Came up with an idea so that community can be heard by soe staff.

Personal I think if they what feed back from the community they should contact us throuh are city elected mayor. Have a good old town hall meeting. Set up the voting both and we vote on what we think we wantto see ingame and then soe can take it from there. Then we could see the voting statistics as SOE staff can. It would add to the cities and help the profession of politician. There would be a race for mayor in some of the cities again. There would even a stare wars global community feel to the whole thing. Every one wins they get there feed back and we get more of word in what we would really like to see what direction this game goes.

What do you think?

Message Edited by cadof on 07-22-2004 10:37 PM

The point I was trying to make was in the interview with Haden Blackman he stated “ We also really want to find ways to engage the community. “

Hear is another Quote is from Haden Blackman

GI: Is it tricky to work with a community of such a large size? You’ve got so many players and such a rampant fan base. How do you plan on communicating with them on a better level? Will there be more involvement in the forums or are you thinking of things like questionnaires?

Blackman: Kurt Stangl, Thunderheart, is our community manager and he is trying to find ways internally to increase the range of correspondence much more often. We’re trying to find ways to engage them much more frequently and even kind of face-to-face. So hopefully we’ll be able to talk a little more in detail about that. Managing a community of this size that is so large and passionate, we try to engage them as much as possible, especially in the forums. One thing to realize, too, is that those posting and reading on the forums is a small sliver of our overall fanbase. It’s kind of the core. So their comments and opinions and criticism is all really, really valid because it affects everybody else. But in order to really get the big picture of how the community feels about the game you have to play online and talk to players online, which we do frequently, as well. We are using questionnaires as well. We do use exit surveys and we’re looking at doing more polls online. We also do focus testing and that’s something that we want to do more and more of. We’re looking at putting together a subscriber survey right now so the active player base can tell us what they like the most about the game and what needs improvement. The focus tests, for me, have been incredibly valuable and we’ve been doing a lot of those for JTLS.

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So I offered an Idea to get more of the community evolved in the game. Thus making the game they would like play.

Message Edited by cadof on 07-23-2004 01:50 AM