Discussion: Introducing Tweet Code Thursdays!

I'm at work during most of these giveaways, but I'm glad to see them. As annoying as it can be to miss out on things I've a feeling the positive of gaining subscribers and begrudgingly monitoring the social media will wind up outweighing any harsh feelings and complaints. I don't see many (because there's always one..) cancelling over this or it pushing people over the edge.

It's also reassuring to know that these will be made available outside of Twitter. This can prove to be a good incentive to attend or even host events. Those looking to boost event attendance can ask to coordinate with the development team and award these codes to random or event winners.

I can see a lot of possibilities these valuable costume pieces open up, as long as it's not exclusive to twitter.

[QUOTE=Seschat;4304626]One, that's kind of depressing. I'd like to think my fellow CoH players are brighter than the average internet user. Two, one wonders how these numbers would change if the broken parts of the forums, such as the login, were ever fixed?[quote]

The log in errors were fixed awhile back

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As I've said earlier, far too often the price of using social media is your career. You are fortunate, Zwillinger, that Paragon encourages your use of Twitter/Facebook/whatever. Many companies look on such usage as a liability to their business, and a poor reflection on your character.

Companies that view it as a liability would be better off investing their time in teaching their employees proper social media management and security. IMHO that is.

Oh damn I spent my day playing the game instead of being on twitter.

What a dumb idea this is.

So if I want to see a video feed I have to go to one site. If I want to grab a free item I have to watch another social media.

But It gets better you have to snag it first. So the people you actually get to watch for the promo are still left out if their service or computer is slow.

Please stop with the gimics and go fix the current reward bugs. Like yearly badges and random Paragon reward dates.

Who would get the COH twitter feed that isn't already playing the game? So every player that doesn't get a reward you risk pissing off.

Personally, I love this.

What's to complain about FREE stuff that we all have an equal chance of obtaining?

If you don't care about Kirby Dots and never have before - then don't visit the twitter page. If it's something you desire, cast a tent and be ready.

I'm on twitter, and I have zero desire to try and and grab one of those codes as I know I'm not fast enough to snag one. I was willing to play along for the facepalm emote, a limited time promotion works just fine, but with a ton of people trying for the once code... really? I was on virtue last night when you gave them out... again, didn't even try. this "promo" is full of fail and if you think that almost certain failure will drum up support you are sadly mistaken.

Well since you seems to want to do promotions on all social media when are AOL afternoons starting? You know create an AOL chat room for those few COH/AOL fans out there?

Or Hook Up with COH at OKCupid! Meet the love of your gamer life and get a code for the Wedding or Valentine pack.

Maybe a meet and greet with Dr.AEON on WebMD get a chance at a temp rez power.

Just doing my part to help out your marketing team.

I love the idea. The point is not to give away costume codes.

The point is to get people following the City of Heroes account on Twitter. It's not the carrot, it's the stick.

I find it hilarious that people are THIS worked up about an aura. Really? It's not that serious. Twitter can't be monetized, as far as the CoH account goes (it's not a "Promoted post," they don't get money per page view) so that's not a motivation at all.

The motivation is, like they've said, building the community off of the forums; therein lies the problem. Want to know why so many people on these forums hate social media (other than mildly understandable issues with privacy)?

Because forum posters, since the Internet was created, value anonymity more than oxygen. Social media removes that, almost entirely (although Twitter is the least invasive of all). Slinging vitriol and derision at total strangers loses a lot of its deliciousness when those strangers know your name, and your face.

Sadly, I don't believe MMOs in general will ever have a strong presence on social media as it stands now because of the huge gap in sensibilities between gamers (generally speaking) and people who are comfortable with sharing their identities on the Internet.

I run a website with several authors and several hundred thousand daily page views, and social media marketing is a pain in the butt, I know. Especially Facebook. However, getting foamy at the mouth over a COSTUME PIECE really isn't worth slamming a marketing team who's clearly simply looking for ways to expand the community into new arenas. Maybe, just, I don't know, don't worry about it? If you hate social media so much, you should have moved on from this topic the moment you read "Twitter" in the title.

Pushes into social media are important for this game, because it is a SOCIAL game, whether people want to admit it or not. I've played 2 or our 3 main competitors, completely solo, and gave up after a month because it was so incredibly alienating to be by yourself in a game designed to be shared with others.

Marketing is tough. Marketing an MMO *not* by Giant Snow Storm is even tougher. Cut the guys a break, will ya? Or, do what I'm doing; the NCSoft Maintenance isn't even going to be finished before I get home from work anyway, so I'm not worried about it. Will I get the code? Probably not. Am I gonna cry about it? God, no.

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Originally Posted by EarthWyrm But I do understand that there is an internet rule that any bad idea must be presented by someone at least twice a year to remind everyone who hasn't already read every previous thread on the topic precisely why the idea is bad.