MA Guest Author News from Kotaku
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Posted on: 2009-10-09 15:18 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
Very mildly annoying. It's not like this is time-sensitive information. There's no reward for playing those arcs the day they go Live.
And since they're not being tested first on the Test Server, maybe they don't want a huge crush to try those arcs and risk a bug being found making them look bad. If the initial, smaller rush finds no problems with the arcs, then they can make really big announcements. At least, that's how I'd schedule it.
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Very mildly annoying. It's not like this is time-sensitive information. There's no reward for playing those arcs the day they go Live.
And since they're not being tested first on the Test Server, maybe they don't want a huge crush to try those arcs and risk a bug being found making them look bad. If the initial, smaller rush finds no problems with the arcs, then they can make really big announcements. At least, that's how I'd schedule it. |
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This has already been answered by the mods: By giving exclusive head-start info to fan/professional sites, the sites are more likely to feature the story. That's free advertising.
Also, those sites have readers who are not CoH players, and seeing a feature article about the game might bring them into CoH. Really, Paragon/NCSoft gets yelled at for lack of marketing, and then when they do market, they get yelled at. On a different note: "Algonquin Hate Table" That's awesome! |
An official announce saying "Look here for some exciting game news" in the forum would have gone a long way to resolving all those issues.
Yes, you are correct in that a news item in a source not reserved totally for CoH players is good strategy but given how little extra it would give the guys who are actually paying real money right now to play the game it might not have been a bad plan to give them a heads up right?
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This is one of the very few times they've neglected to inform us simultaneously. Kotaku might have published earlier than expected, or something got lost in the shuffle, but either way it's hardly worth mentioning. Wait until an obvious pattern begins before you begin whining about it.
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Yes, you are correct in that a news item in a source not reserved totally for CoH players is good strategy but given how little extra it would give the guys who are actually paying real money right now to play the game it might not have been a bad plan to give them a heads up right?
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THIS THREAD IS A HEAD'S UP.
Who cares that the devs didn't hand-deliver the news to you on rose-scented lavender paper?
The forums and the main site are both hosted by NC and are both publicly available to paying customers.
Whining about getting information from one game resource instead of the other one is ridiculous.
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Okay, yeah, that is annoying.
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