jfever
Journeyman Douchebag
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Post by jfever on Aug 4, 2012 3:57:32 GMT -8
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Post by CreativeCowboy on Aug 4, 2012 5:03:11 GMT -8
I understand many of them left for Facebook. Plus, Forbes Thought of The Day: " There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly." I should have put this on my business card though many clients seek to benefit from a " misunderstanding" of the truth."
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Post by Kainguru on Aug 4, 2012 5:30:26 GMT -8
Possibly though the people lost were lost for a number of reasons, which may or may not be of potential benefit to RPG's 1) jaded users, stale format - possible recruits but a hard sell 2) financial constants due to recession - again, possible recruits but hard sell ( "RPG without a computer!! Surely sir you jest?") 3) rationalisation of fake profiles held by users with either a) sock puppets for trolling etc or b) alternate agendas not usually compatible with table top recruitment (shady business) - either way not recruitable. 4) shift in demographic . . . they've all got lives now and have entered that common experience: the long hiatus - not really recruitable at present. The question is where does the next generation now hang out, that would determine recruitablity
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Post by ayslyn on Aug 4, 2012 6:40:04 GMT -8
A number of those will come back in a couple of months when MoP hits. There's always a drop off near the end of an expansion, and many of those return once the new one hits.
And, while not to reduce the "impact" of the number of subs that dropped off, with their remaining "mere" nine million subscribers, they're still wildly successful.
Which wasn't to suggest that you were suggesting anything other than, "Hey!! Let's get these people playing OUR games!! ^.^"
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2012 6:47:15 GMT -8
1.1 million? Did the farmbots quit?
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Post by greatwyrm on Aug 5, 2012 7:08:00 GMT -8
I ended up taking about four months off WoW just to do stuff for work. I can't speak for the rest of the 1,099,999, but I'd say it's probably just the stale content. In our guild, we always see a drop off in the tail end of an expansion set, then pretty much everybody comes back when the new toys come out.
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Post by Kainguru on Aug 5, 2012 9:27:53 GMT -8
I ended up taking about four months off WoW just to do stuff for work. I can't speak for the rest of the 1,099,999, but I'd say it's probably just the stale content. In our guild, we always see a drop off in the tail end of an expansion set, then pretty much everybody comes back when the new toys come out. So options 1 and 4 above . . . But you're already a convert (I assume?)
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Post by Forresst on Aug 5, 2012 14:56:59 GMT -8
I played WoW for 4 years. It was a fun time, lots of things to do, lots of different ways to waste time.... but I got too bored, and felt I'd rather grind a fork into my eye than sit around trying to dig up another fossil (yeah, they introduced an archaeology... minigame? Profession I guess). I know some of them just gave up on the MMO genre entirely, and while a lot of them are ripe for the pickin' tabletop-wise... it's more work than I can do to even catch all the ones I know personally. In short, my compatriots, good luck with that.
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Post by CreativeCowboy on Aug 6, 2012 3:58:04 GMT -8
Like selling elephants in a cathouse.... very niche and very unprofitable use of time in conversion to take a passive audience and zealously "educate" them on the virtues of assertive gaming....? (Akin to converting cinemas into a kind of social area for radio program listening.) Could do the smell-o-rama and vibrating seats schtick and I am sure the cost of admission will be much less than it is for film but not for the .0002% of that market - if it would be that high.
Ah, WotC's great mistep.
Take it from me, the career PR bible-thumping Ivy-Ledbetter-Lee on your doorbell on a Saturday afternoon, briefcase totting, smiling, suited soldier of Christ: it ain't gonna happen.
Who are you tabletoppers anyway?! My priest? Is this a cult?
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