Comments on: Which community events do you want?

By: gilboa

gilboa — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:01:20 +0000

For X3 help, please post a message in http://forum.egosoft.com/viewforum.php?f=66

- Gilboa

By: Max

Max — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 22:08:45 +0000

There is #penguinplay on freenode to find people to play with, through penguinplay.

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:13:09 +0000

Hi,

What I would like to see is a community forum. Almost every editor has one and see how it makes a vibrant, dynamic community! For instance, take egosoft forums (X2 and X3). That would also help find partners to play on PenguinPlay. Or for instance, provide more updates (such as an updater for X3 helping install XTM 0.7.5).

Thanks.

By: Eskild Hustvedt (Community Manager and Junior Developer)

Eskild Hustvedt (Community Manager and Junior Developer) — Wed, 05 May 2010 20:26:59 +0000

It might :)

By: gbudny

gbudny — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:09:33 +0000

Did you read this?

Application(s) Vendor

Variety of games Linux Game Publishing

http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-10.04-for-software-vendors

By: SlickMcRunFast

SlickMcRunFast — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 05:01:39 +0000

Will the scrambled picture contest return?

By: Furball

Furball — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:30:12 +0000

I’m so glad to see an update. And very impressed you are working on more than one game. I’m also not using social services, I voted for playing Majesty. But I haven’t bought it yet, it’s on my to-buy list :)

I’d also like to see a bit more frequent updates from LGP, perhaps one post per month is not unreasonable.

Keep on doing the great job you do.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 18:29:04 +0000

“Which community events would you attend?”
None of those listed events, as I don’t use Twitter, I don’t use identica, I don’t use IRC and I don’t own those listed games (I’ve got Cold War, Sacred: Gold, Shadowgrounds and Shadowgrounds: Survivor, but none of the listed games).

I agree with Andreas. I want to see more updates about what’s happening. I want to know which games are in development, I want to know when upcoming games are expected to be released. That’s how LGP makes me happy. I also got flashbacks to Loki. Such silence isn’t good. It’s better to keep your community up-to-date about what’s going on.

Why shouldn’t you just tell which games are in development? Why wait so long before making an announcement? Why doesn’t LGP say a single word. At least tell us what kind of games are in development (FPS, RTS, RPG, etc.) and which setting (a well-known war, a fictive war, fantasy setting, etc.) or every week a very small piece of a screenshot, so people can speculate for months about from which game the screenshot is. People are puzzling for months to paste those parts together to get to know to which game the screenshot belongs. After two or three monts all of those little images form a cathedral and someone regognizes this cathedral from a RTS-game he played on Windows, so he knows which game LGP has in development.

That’s a nice way to announce your games. It keeps the community busy and keeps them happy. Ans it’s also a free puzzle game from LGP which every visitor of LGP’s website can play.

By: gilboa

gilboa — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 14:11:17 +0000

P.S. I’d consider asking people to participate in general LGP survey.
E.g. What is the average LGP buyer age? Where does he live? What type of work does he have?

This should help you define your “community” and as a result, the type of community activity required to keep users interested.

- Gilboa

By: gilboa

gilboa — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 14:04:29 +0000

/+1.

I almost given up on LGP.
As for the question at hand, IMHO open betas (coupled with a continuous media noise @Phoronix and happypenguin) will generate far more interest (and revenue?) compared contests and free games. (Plus, it may draw people to wait for the beta to end instead of buying the Windows title and using wine)

You could combine the two (Limited number of free beta test passes), with the top participants getting free/discounts/etc.

- Gilboa