Suggestion Embrace WAR MMO

[Domstrae]

I really think thats the wrong attitude. Look at how WOW blew up from WC3. I'm sure your a tabletop game forum, but your also a warhammer forum. Shooting it down because you don't know what will happen is short sighted. How hard would it be to correct it later on if it doesnt get big? MMOs bring traffic. And seriously organization has nothing to do with capacity IMO. So what if it doesnt get a lot of traffic its a catagory occupying virtual space. The only way you can earn traffic is to build the road for it to occupy.

[Blackhat]

If the WAR will help us expand and get bigger Im all for it.

[Lost Nemesis]

Originally Posted by Domstrae

I really think thats the wrong attitude. Look at how WOW blew up from WC3. I'm sure your a tabletop game forum, but your also a warhammer forum. Shooting it down because you don't know what will happen is short sighted. How hard would it be to correct it later on if it doesnt get big? MMOs bring traffic. And seriously organization has nothing to do with capacity IMO. So what if it doesnt get a lot of traffic its a catagory occupying virtual space. The only way you can earn traffic is to build the road for it to occupy.

It would be far less hassle to start small and get bigger than to start big and have to break it down. For all we know, there will be other sites dedicated to it that people would rather go to; there will be 10 members tops on LO who will buy it and play it and keep it; there's no way in telling. If you build a structure of forums that nobody uses, it's just a waste of time. If you build up one forum and it ends up booming, then you can start building that structure up.

[Pancakes]

I've been thinking this for a while, I agree with Domstae it would be totally badass if there when WAR is released all the members of LO that are going to get it could all group up somewhere in game if were all Good/Evil and the right race and could form a clan/guild and just have fun the night of release.

[Caluin]

Originally Posted by Cyric the Mad

I think perhaps a single subforum to start. We can expand from there if needed.

I'm thinking the opposite. Start at a respectable size, and then either grow or trim from there. Nothing too big, but something large enough to be appealing. Limiting ourselves right from the start is only going to turn away newcomers that mistakenly believe that we're not going to cater to their needs.

I envision something along these lines -
Subforum for general chit-chat about WAR.
Subforum for each race, but not each class. (Alternatively, we can do subforums for race archetypes, like 'Tanks', 'DPS', 'Healers', 'Hybrids', etc, but I don't know enough of the races to pigeonhole anything yet.)
PvP discussion (which may fall under general. The game revolves around PvP, so may as well have it's own subforum)
UI and Mods

That's not an extremely large footprint, especially if we keep the race forums organized (maybe split them into 'Good' and 'Bad' subforums first)

If certain subforums seem under utilized, we can always migrate threads and remove subforums.

While I do agree that LO is first and foremost a forum for tabletop gamers, I also recognize that times and trends change and sometimes we have to adapt with them.

[Lost Nemesis]

I'm not sure if subforums for each separate race are needed. I'd think more of a compromise could be made:

'General' WAR subforum.
'Forces of Order' subforum.
'Forces of Destruction' subforum.

Then build on after that if needed. After all, there may only be 2 Dwarf players on LO and 4 High Elves and 1 Empire... etc. We have no idea how many players there will be, nor do we have any idea how many per race or how many will stick with the game.

[Pancakes]

Spot on, sounds good to me Nemesis, I hope there will be more interest however, if needed me and Domstae can provide all the enthusiasm to expand the forums by ourselves!

[Domstrae]

Right we definitely want to show we are taking the game seriously. I have others who will get involved that don't play the tabletop anymore but are still in love with the warhammer universe and will be playing WAR. I never really took it from the perspective of the long time tabletop players exploring their first MMO, but we might be able to generate a buzz. One subforum could be dedicated to walthroughs and getting started not for people new to the world but new to the MMO genre.

[Blackhat]

Ok, just added the WAR forum in the "other games" section. Lets try from there and see how it goes


Or should it have its own section like 40k and fantasy ?

[Stonehambey]

Originally Posted by Blackhat

Ok, just added the WAR forum in the "other games" section. Lets try from there and see how it goes


Or should it have its own section like 40k and fantasy ?

The subforums you created simply link to the respective forums on the main boards, is that what you intended?