Who all here has Myspace? I have it, I know Adam has it, MJ has it, but he hates using it. Are there any Myspace Multiverser forums? Could we maybe start one? Just a thought.
I can't think of a good reason to have a MySpace forum, given how slow MySpace runs for everything else.
But maybe there's something I don't know.
--M. J. Young
I can't think of a good reason to have a MySpace forum, given how slow MySpace runs for everything else.
But maybe there's something I don't know.
Can't think of a good reason for a Myspace forum.... Well, let's see. Myspace has almost 230,000,000 members. Some of them are bound to be gamers. You wanted to get the word out about your game, I can't think of a better place to start. Did you ever contact that guy that emailed me on there, BTW?
The thing you don't know is that most of us don't live in the Stone age, and we have faster computers. It takes you 20 minutes to access Myspace, when I can access it in about 20 seconds.
It was just a thought that I had, I was hoping to get Adam's opinion. Maybe he would be interested in doing something with that.
I was just thinking, if nothing else, perhaps Adam and Scott, and others could referee players in their blog. I am refereeing an RPG of sorts in my own Myspace blog at the moment actually.
Don't punish, educate. Seemed important at the time.
Multiverser has a MySpace presence (as you know), and I suspect it has a link here to the forum (although I don't maintain the site, so I should check on that).
What advantage is there to having a MySpace forum specifically, as opposed to having a MySpace site with a link to the forum here?
The obvious advantage of sending people to this forum is that they can ask questions of the game's co-creator directly, and I don't have to add one more thing to my to-do list that keeps me from getting here.
--M. J. Young
The obvious advantage of sending people to this forum is that they can ask questions of the game's co-creator directly, and I don't have to add one more thing to my to-do list that keeps me from getting here.
I hate to say this, because I'm pretty sure it's going to upset you, but here goes. One of the commentators to your GO blog kept saying that everyone here has either bought the gaming book, or is decided whether or not they are going to buy it. Honestly, I agree with him there. Which would you rather have? Two hundred thirty million potential customers, or eight known customers? I think what you should do is seriously reconsider your misgivings about the broadband connection, and get more active on Myspace. I was hoping to get thoughts from other Myspace users on this. Come on Adam, let's put our personal problems on the shelf for a minute and work together for the common good.
There is an error in your thinking. You wrote:
Which would you rather have? Two hundred thirty million potential customers, or eight known customers?What you've failed to explain is how merely having a forum on MySpace will cause people to participate.
I do not know how many people there are on the World Wide Web, but I know that merely having a web site did not mean all of them became aware of us.
We have had a forum here at Gaming Outpost since the days when the real question was whether Gaming Outpost or RPG.Net was the most important site for role playing games. People came and went, and there are many out there who know we are here who don't participate--and many more who do not know we exist despite the fact that we have had this forum that long.
There have been a few Yahoo!Groups dedicated to Multiverser. They are all now inactive. I was never an active participant in these, as I did not start them and was not eager to interfere with what they were doing (did not wish to be perceived as meddling or controlling).
What I am saying is that I do not see much difference between a forum on MySpace and a forum here, except that the MySpace forum is limited to the use of those who are on MySpace, and the forum here is open to anyone on the Internet--which includes everyone on MySpace. What you have not explained to me is how simply having a forum there will cause
Two hundred thirty million potential customersto be any more aware of our existence than they are now, any more able to join us and ask questions, or any more interested.
If someone is interested in finding a Yahoo!Group related to a specific interest, he types his key words into their search engine and gets the hundreds of groups which use those words in their names or their descriptions. I would assume that the same thing is true on MySpace. If anyone searches MySpace for Multiverser, they'll find our MySpace profile page. That's already a longshot--they are far more likely to find us by following links from friend pages. Why would having a forum on MySpace connect to more people than having a MySpace page that directs them to a forum here and lets them ask questions through the MySpace message and comments systems?
You haven't sold me because I am a hard sell. I've bought the "do this, and you'll reach all these people" message too many times before to leap on it now. You need to explain to me not that there are
Two hundred thirty million potential customerson MySpace, but why having a forum there is a better investment of my time than having a forum on the Internet where I have probably one hundred times that many potential customers.
--M. J. Young
Put like that, you've totally convinced me. I just thought it would be something worth checking into, that perhaps some of the players here could run, or attempt to run. Point made though.
Everyone here that has Myspace. I just thought about it. Gamers and science fiction fans probably browse our profiles. Why not do a little advertising on our pages? At the very least, put the Voldron site and my book review page in your top friends. It has my review of Verse Three Chapter One, and of another of MJ's books. The latter isn't yet finished. The address for that is www.myspace.com/bookreviewyoung. Are we serious about getting the word out about this game, or are we just spinning our wheels?
Or even better, why doesn't everyone here do a review of one of MJ's books? Manage 2 Myspace pages. I do, and the book review page doesn't get a whole lot of email. If you have not read Verse Three Chapter One, I highly recommend it. It's an awesome book. Come on, let's get serious about this.
I mean we do kind of owe him a debt for running the games for us. Let's try paying that back. Scott and Eric could do reviews of the gaming books. The novel is awesome, worth reading several times. Come on, let's help MJ out.