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railroadbaron

I know I wouldn't have protested. i thought about that after the fact, and I think it sucks that that one terrible, terrible feat might have been their push to find out if they could find other players. They could have found other fans who were willing to pay: i don't believe that the only people they could possibly find were the group of us they already had.

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  1. Kristen Marie

    I just wish the call to invite people had been handled differently. It should not have been a feat, but it was beta - they could have told us they were experimenting with how best to attract new players and asked for our help to see if an e-mail campaign would work, with a small credit offering for people who joined and stayed for x amount of time. I feel like it would have been more genuine, and more people would have responded to it in a much more positive manner.

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  2. Ayasta

    There was more than the feat though, the push for Twitter snaps and the Liking on Facebook as well as our own "Join Me" pages may have all been some form of advertising. They did do a last ditch advertising thing on some websites close to the weekend before the announcement (a few people in PBMS saw the ads which were basically just "Play Glitch!") but some of the sites that also posted them brought in the wrong audience (an influx of underage players jumped on after that). This is all just my own speculation, but really, there could have been other options, but it just didn't happen.


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Kristen Marie

I just wish the call to invite people had been handled differently. It should not have been a feat, but it was beta - they could have told us they were experimenting with how best to attract new players and asked for our help to see if an e-mail campaign would work, with a small credit offering for people who joined and stayed for x amount of time. I feel like it would have been more genuine, and more people would have responded to it in a much more positive manner.


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acro, obviously

What all of you said. It wasn't clear to me that it was a do-or-die request at the time, and I stamped my feet and said it reminded me too much of a Zynga game. (Must have more neighbors or cannot succeed!) But the same day I got the news that Glitch was closing I was coming home from my first day on the job after a year and a half of unemployment, and my first intention was to extend the subscription that had been gifted to me. I was already prepared to spend money... and would have been much more comfortable soliciting other players if I had known survival hung in the balance.

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  1. railroadbaron

    I would have solicited the HELL out of people if I knew the game hung in the balance. I have a huge community on LJ that I own that I would have broken the rules and solicited to for Glitch. I just didn't know they were in dire straits. No one knew. I mean, it was BARELY out of Beta, how were we to know they would make a decision without trying for a longer period of time first?