The City of Heroes 2010 Meet and Greet Tour!
By
EMpulse,
Posted on: 2010-05-11 15:46 in Announcements
Hi again everyone!
I want to thank you all for the suggestions on where our 5th Meet and Greet of the year should be. You may have noticed that it has taken me a little time to get back to all of you (okay, maybe more than a little) …but that is because there was a lot to consider when making this decision. The biggest consideration is, of course, the fact that Going Rogue is quickly approaching and we need all hands on deck prior to and after the release of it. Boy, you sure would think that the “powers that be” scheduled some of these convention dates to make them as inconvenient as possible for us! 
In the end, timing and location were the big factors for us this year. Because we’re a super-hero game, because we want to continue showing love to our East Coasters in 2010, and perhaps most importantly, because Going Rogue will be released by the time it rolls around… we’re going to be attending New York Comic-Con this year for the very first time! We hope those of you in the area that weren’t able to attend the PAX Boston Meet and Greet will be able to join us this time around in October.
Again, thanks for the feedback and we plan on bringing you more specific convention and Meet and Greet news soon!
-EMpulse
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Hi everyone!
My goal here is just to try and offer the best of both worlds to the widest variety of our community members.
I wanted to take a few minutes to talk to you about Paragon Studio’s strategy for real-world “meet-ups” with our player base for the remainder of 2010.
We’re doing things a little different this time around and I hope you’ll like the approach, for I think it’s important for us to take into account feedback we’ve gotten and try new ways to make ourselves more accessible to our players.
Let me start by saying that we learned a lot from our fans who showed up to our Boston, MA “Meet and Greet” at the very end of February. In fact, we’ve been talking about it ever since. Not only did we have a blast with our East Coasters, but the people we met couldn’t tell us enough how appreciative they were that we made the effort to travel to them. Most folks cited that travel time and cost were the main hurdles preventing them from participating in our prior events like Hero-Con.
Naturally, this got us thinking. How could we lessen the financial burden on our players and give them more opportunities to meet us in person? Well, we came up with a strategy and if you hate it you can feel free to yell at me because I’m the one taking us down this road – it’s alright, I can take it!
In a nutshell, we’re taking our show “on the road” (so to speak), dropping any potential barriers of “entry costs” and doing our best to come to YOU.
Instead of throwing one big event this year that requires a ticket fee and which only a certain amount of players can make it to, we want to offer several in the hope that more of you can make it to at least one of them! So, we are going to forego executing two real-world events for the year like we usually do-- one Meet and Greet (usually at San Diego Comic-Con or PAX West in Seattle) and one Hero-Con (in Northern CA), and instead we’re going to piggyback off of existing conventions and throw a total of 5 Meet and Greets in 2010.
What this means is that we’re not going to be holding a traditional Hero-Con this year. Instead, we’ll be throwing a free event reminiscent of the 2007 Northern CA get-together – the one that eventually turned into Hero-Con. Now, I wasn’t here for this event, but I hear it was more fun than you could shake a stick at.
Does this mean that we’re never having Hero-Con again? Nope. It just means that we’re trying something new this year and if it goes well maybe we’ll continue in this direction. If the overall reception doesn’t meet our expectations, we’ll consider more options in the future to bring you more of what you want.
We’ve already hit the East Coast and Boston, Mass for a PAX East Meet and Greet this year. Here are the other ones we’re planning to throw in 2010:
Keep in mind that although this event won’t be a “Hero-Con” it may contain some familiar Hero-Con elements. For example, we have a unique opportunity with a Northern CA event that we don’t have with the others. The fact that our entire development team is in the area and available to participate gives us a few more options!
You may have noticed that there are only 4 events listed above. That’s because we’re not entirely set on our 5th one yet…and we want you to help us decide where to go. We have a feeling we know where we’re headed (and what your preference will be), but we’d still like your input. Just keep in mind that we would prefer to base it around an already existing convention or show that several of you may be attending and ideally this event would be nearer the East Coast. Also, it needs to be one that doesn’t conflict date-wise with the Meet and Greets listed above that we’re already planning on attending – we only have so many resources, after all!
So let us know where you think our final Meet and Greet event should be! We’ll take that under consideration and then let you know where we’ll be going.
We hope you can get behind our strategy of going on tour and ‘coming to you’ this year – we really hope it increases our chances of getting to meet and interact with you in person. On this end, we’re pretty excited about it!
Thanks for listening,
-EMpulse
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