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Posted January 10, 2012
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serpantino: snip
Heh, for me Facebook was only useful when GOG did this stunt. Entering GOG Facebook page and reading users' comments gave me scraps of information until it all cleared out.

I realize that it doesn't take long before fellow goger posts on forum Facebook/Twitter important messages, but nevertheless I think there could be a section on this page where such key-messages should be visible.

EDIT: Worms you say...? I played it a bit mainly to see those funny cut-scenes (ahh sweet CD-ROM era) but I soon gave up because computer player was cheating (it shoot my worm from the distance of 2 screens ;-P).
But I guess I'll buy all of them eventually. Also hoping for classic Alien Breeds and Superfrog.
Post edited January 10, 2012 by tburger
Posted January 10, 2012
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serpantino: snip
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tburger: Heh, for me Facebook was only useful when GOG did this stunt. Entering GOG Facebook page and reading users' comments gave me scraps of information until it all cleared out.

I realize that it doesn't take long before fellow goger posts on forum Facebook/Twitter important messages, but nevertheless I think there could be a section on this page where such key-messages should be visible.
Sadly with the timestamps bugs, wishlist mess, extra copies of empire earth in many accounts, etc still unresolved I doubt GOG will get to this sort of stuff anytime soon. :\
Posted January 10, 2012
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GameRager: Sadly with the timestamps bugs, wishlist mess, extra copies of empire earth in many accounts, etc still unresolved I doubt GOG will get to this sort of stuff anytime soon. :\
I've been here for a while so I don't even count on it :-D
Posted January 10, 2012
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Roman5: It's Team 17

That's for sure
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GameRager: I still say it's something bigger, if only because I want it to be. I'd love if it were 2K or MS myself, for various reasons. XD
They've said on FB that this isn't any of four grand publishers they are working to get. So not 2K nor MS.
Post edited January 10, 2012 by keeveek
Posted January 10, 2012
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AFnord: If they stated that it would be action based, then I'll have to agree with the people who say that it is likely to be Team 17 and worms.
Worms aren't action based since it's turn based. You have time to think and you can strategize. It's also one of the best hot seat games.
Posted January 10, 2012
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tburger: GOG - I don't use social media services (such as Twitter or Facebook) relying only on gog.com. Am I lesser customer? I understand that GOG passes such messages via social channels but they should be also available via webpage.
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Magnitus: Well, you and I are part of a shrinking minority that don't use those social media services.

I think at some point, probably 80% to 90% of the population will use them and having some sort of presence on the social media scene will be a must to reach a lot of people quickly.

I know I would never user Facebook for myself (I prefer satisfying my online social needs with forums such as this one), but I will certainly open an official Facebook page once my game is out and fully ready for consumption.

I don't think GOG is being "snobbish" by posting on social media first, it is just being up to date with the times.
You can always use RSS to subscribe to or [url=http://socialmediaseo.net/2010/01/14/facebook-fan-page-rss-feeds/]Facebook, if you don't care to use them through an actual account.
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chaosbeast: This is one of my beefs with the new PR person, everything migrated. Social media doesn't replace the old avenues of communications. It's suppose to enhance them.
Social media seems to be a better channel for a constant small drip of content than posting to the front page always. All of the big news will always land on the main page, don't worry.

I'm curious, though: what would you rather we do?

EDIT: Also: "one of" your beefs? You've got a list of grievances? :P
Post edited January 10, 2012 by TheEnigmaticT
Posted January 10, 2012
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TheEnigmaticT: You can always use RSS to subscribe to or [url=http://socialmediaseo.net/2010/01/14/facebook-fan-page-rss-feeds/]Facebook, if you don't care to use them through an actual account.
And these links actually contains very important info. I do not use RSS, but at least I can learn that "how to RSS". I think you should make some bigger announcement to make them visible for every GOGer if you continue to use these two outer services (+ some good info "how to RSS" would be also nice).
Posted January 10, 2012
Don't count on me , if you priced the games of Team17 for $9.99 . ( only if they are updated for the newest systems and quality )
Posted January 10, 2012
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TheEnigmaticT: what would you rather we do?
Post on the GOG general forum?
Weird idea, I know, but sometimes it works! *grins and teases*

Or, if you finally decide to spend some more work on your web appearance and integrate the promised wishlist and other functionality, I'd suggest a little 'news-ticker' 'frame' on the webpage?
Posted January 10, 2012
Looks like I was right :)
Posted January 10, 2012
i really don't understand what everyones issue with facebook is, or why people have problems with the way they are notifying people of news/deals,.

All you have to do is have the gog.com main page linked somewhere on your computer.. like a simple icon on your desktop, and anytime you want to see if any news has showed up click it..

Outside of offering some money to someone that works there for a personal phone call, i really don't know what else people are hoping for as far as notification.

one way or another you have to turn on a device/computer, and check e-mail, facebook, or a web address, 3 options and really the last one is the easiest, as its a single click and you can plainly see if anything was updated.
Posted January 10, 2012
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Magnitus: Well, you and I are part of a shrinking minority that don't use those social media services.

I think at some point, probably 80% to 90% of the population will use them and having some sort of presence on the social media scene will be a must to reach a lot of people quickly.

I know I would never user Facebook for myself (I prefer satisfying my online social needs with forums such as this one), but I will certainly open an official Facebook page once my game is out and fully ready for consumption.

I don't think GOG is being "snobbish" by posting on social media first, it is just being up to date with the times.
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TheEnigmaticT: You can always use RSS to subscribe to or [url=http://socialmediaseo.net/2010/01/14/facebook-fan-page-rss-feeds/]Facebook, if you don't care to use them through an actual account.
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chaosbeast: This is one of my beefs with the new PR person, everything migrated. Social media doesn't replace the old avenues of communications. It's suppose to enhance them.
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TheEnigmaticT: Social media seems to be a better channel for a constant small drip of content than posting to the front page always. All of the big news will always land on the main page, don't worry.

I'm curious, though: what would you rather we do?

EDIT: Also: "one of" your beefs? You've got a list of grievances? :P
Most of the big companies have migrated from Social based media after it was discovered it wasn't the holy grail of two way communication and have put less importance on it The only ones that advertise the ol' facebook and twitter accounts are the ones late in the game or are rerunning old commercials.

There's also been reports that there are a lot of inactive twitter accounts (twitter quitters) and fb accounts. Fewer posts on fb. Fujek hit it on the head, go where the customers are. Post on the GOG general forums. Companies would kill to have such an active forum on their websites (and I'm pretty sure P&G did). This ties into my other beef, communication in general. Those legal letters was IMO, a PR disaster because GOG was late getting into the forum fray. It is these types of frays that twitter was designed for -as Nestle discovered the hard way when a simple event turned into a PR nightmare and caused their stock to drop. Proper two-way communication would have explained the situation and stopped misinformation.
Posted January 11, 2012
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TheEnigmaticT: what would you rather we do?
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Fujek: Post on the GOG general forum?
Weird idea, I know, but sometimes it works! *grins and teases*

Or, if you finally decide to spend some more work on your web appearance and integrate the promised wishlist and other functionality, I'd suggest a little 'news-ticker' 'frame' on the webpage?
They post their news to the GOG forums eventually though in most if not all cases. It just arrives a bit later than the FB/Twitter updates.
Posted January 11, 2012
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chaosbeast: Those legal letters was IMO, a PR disaster because GOG was late getting into the forum fray.
The time lag you were seeing in the communications there was because we can't really leap in and discuss much about what some other company is doing, and there's a limit to how many times I can say, "CDP RED doesn't consult with GOG.com about its business practices, or vice versa."

And yeah, you're right. There are a lot of people who made Twitter or FB accounts and then who vanish because they don't get what they want to out of it. But our social media channels, in aggregate, have a lot of reach and let us communicate without adding a bunch of bluetext-created threads here in the forums.

I'll see about testing adding new threads here as well as all of the social media channels, though. I'm leery of making the forums a marketing operation because, well, the ecosystem we've got here is very unique. I'd hate to muck it up. ;)
Posted January 11, 2012
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TheEnigmaticT: I'll see about testing adding new threads
I do not see why you'd need or even want multiple threads. A lot of the 'social media updates' do not warrant a special thread. Fortunately enough your twitter history is just a single forum thread with some restrictions applied to it, so simply create a sticky thread labelled 'News and Teaser', then reply there with a copy and paste of your social media messages.
Everybody who's interested and follows the forum gets a visible sign without having to visit third party platforms and nothing clutters up this 'very unique ecosystem'.
Include a little free code every now and then and you're sure to have yourself plenty a reader following each of your words *winks*.

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GameRager: in most if not all cases
The little teasers only get mentioned by GOGers who follow Twitter/Facebook and inform the community though, as can be seen in this very thread.


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GameRager: It just arrives a bit later than the FB/Twitter updates.
The question I'd be asking in such a scenario would be why GOG users are treated as lesser citizen though and get their kick when everything is long done.
Post edited January 11, 2012 by Fujek
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