Forum Presence
 

Have you noticed that Shrapnel have reached over 5,000 registered members?

Did you now that 2 years ago there were (a lot)less than half of these?

What does this tell you?

Why do people have joined the forums?

What made YOU buy and get involved in this community of game players?

As a psychologist, I would like to know your views on this, but I don't want to restrict the discussion.

Thank you.

Re: Forum Presence
 

Mike (BOKU)'brought' me over with him. I was one of the beta testers for Armies of Armaggedon (the game which later evolved into The War Engine). I've never left http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

Re: Forum Presence
 

I followed Mike over, too.

Re: Forum Presence
 

I followed info on the then-upcoming SEIV from another site (I don't recall where) and then became involved with testing and editing for AoA and TWE.

Mike deserves a recruitment bonus, I think. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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SEIV, SEIV Gold and Dominions II have caused massive surges in membership levels, seeing as they have been the most popular of Shrapnel's titles by far. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[ February 07, 2004, 18:22: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

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Mike brought me over as well with AOA, and I became a beta tester as well.

He's involved me in a few other projects, but I've always had to drop out. I had a lot more gaming time when I was an academic.

Since then I've either bought or at least tried the demos of most of Shrapel's games. Pretty high success rate for me overall.

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Im biased (old net) but it feels like the direction the net is taking. ISPs are dropping things like IRC and NewsGroups. Users can find web forums easier than the other alternatives.

-- It used to be "cant see the forest for the trees"
now it could be "cant see the internet for the WWW"

[ February 23, 2004, 02:17: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]

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I suppose I might as well chip in and add my "I followed Mike over (and then got involved in TWE testing)" to the chorus.

Though in all fairness, it was SEIV that lured me out of lurking.

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I migrated here from the old SEIV Forum back in Oct/Nov 2000. This seemed like the place to be as it was the offical site for the game I was interested in.

A member by the name of Flipper recommended the forum so I came.

Word of mouth, well manored forums, nice people, mods, good game support, and shrapnels commitment to keep the forums open has brought many new members to the forum while keeping the old members coming back.

Re: Forum Presence
 

SE Fan 'eh?
Ever thought about checkin out Legacies?
Solar-Outpost.com/legacies

Myself and a few old school well known and probably by now considered to be old dude SE fans set that up after the fall of se.org, were doin quite well, everyones well active, I'm happy cause I got plenty of crazy people to play with, and we have a damn good time IC as well (most of the time http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif ). Check it out some time if you get bored, we welcome new people to joke around with, and believe it or not we do offer serious discussion - those sections are strongly enforced, we keep odd behavior such as sheep sex to certain areas http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

We'll keep the serious SE fanatic happy, as well as the insane, BWAAAAAAAAA!! IM ONE OF THE INSANE!!! IM AN AIRPLANE! WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!

Whered' my bullets get off to?!