Re: PC Gamer to feature Genesis
Posted: 04 Aug 2018 18:56
Why not the butterfly event? It was super simple to grasp.
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Pick one of the events that can be done in teams or in any way encourages teaming up, couple it with a strong encouragement of the Admin to all existing players, to tag-team up with the newly arrived newbies and bring them in on the events, and it could help create bonds between players, which is usually what keeps people coming back again and again.Cherek wrote:That's not a bad idea. Although I think it takes quite some time for new players to grasp the basics of Genesis, and many of our events might just be confusing new players more than anything else. The last couple of events have not attracted many new players, which makes sense. It's just too confusing. However we could run an event for old players in order to cause an extra large spike, and have more people around overall.Makfly wrote:Perhaps be ready to re-run a event shortly after the release of the article, even if it's just the attack on Sparkle or something that doesn't run for weeks?
As for the attack on Sparkle, fun as it was for us oldies, I think it would probably just be chaotic and spammy for any new players who happen to be there? So, perhaps it's better to run one of the classic events aimed at old players, and one that does not "disrupt" the normal game much. With luck maybe the article will be published in the autumn or just before Christmas, since we have a bunch of Thanksgiving/Halloween/Christmas events that probably could be run.
This.Daerin wrote: And about the even, it would be nice to have the results/rewards of the last event, the one from eastern.
Do you really think it's a problem?gorboth wrote:The one downside of publicity could be the fact that we run a lot of content that is copyrighted intellectual property. If the Tolkien estate, Wizards of the Coast, etc. get wind of a game that features a bunch of their legally protected material that suddenly gets a writeup in PC Gamer ... well ...
In that regard, I wonder if it wouldn't be wiser for our screenshots to feature some of our original content, rather than the favorites of well-trodden fantasy literature.
G.
Genesis could most certainly get a cease and desist because the game doesn't fall under fanfiction or fair use. Even though this isn't a commercial game the IP Holder basically gets to decide what they view as damaging to their image or not. You could compare it to the lawsuit last year I wanna say where Nintendo went after fan made games, they were not sold for anything, had no intentions of selling but Nintendo viewed it as damaging against their image. And they won their cases.Makfly wrote:Do you really think it's a problem?gorboth wrote:The one downside of publicity could be the fact that we run a lot of content that is copyrighted intellectual property. If the Tolkien estate, Wizards of the Coast, etc. get wind of a game that features a bunch of their legally protected material that suddenly gets a writeup in PC Gamer ... well ...
In that regard, I wonder if it wouldn't be wiser for our screenshots to feature some of our original content, rather than the favorites of well-trodden fantasy literature.
G.
I think Genesis is more akin to fanfiction than anything else, and certainly not a commercially IP-breaching venture, but then I'm not an IP-lawyer.
I don't remember if it wasn't already mentioned in the previous article, but we have it listed right at the games own webpage, so it's not exactly a secret.