Eyes on Final Fantasy: Posting Activity History

[Freya]

Yeah it just seems that less and less people care, about final fantasy and about the site. Sure you can do some campaigning, advertising, but being a Journalism major from my learnings, you'd have to do a very big campaign to actually get activity.

Yet others are right, the final fantasy series is a dying series. Any gamers that are playing the series are casual players. Being as this is a fan site, its more for the hardcore final fantasy player. A normal gamer wouldn't go out of their way to find it.

I doubt there is a way to get those casual gamers. They have no desire as is to join. What could we really do to get them to join something they wouldn't go out of their way to join already?

If we can figure out how to gain those younger members, those casual gamers, those old fans that just don't care to search for it, then yeah we'll get more activity. As is though, with the way the FF series is going, the gaming production is going, we can't.

These days a gamer can sit and play a game and knock it out in 20 hours. When they're bored, oh hey a new game is out they can just go play that. RPG's themselves are dying out. Everything is action action action. We're the ADD generation. No longer do people really care for story and story was one of the big things for the FF series. If some how you guys can figure out how to make RPGs more appealing then yeah sure we have activity.

Really unless you guys wanna start campaigning like crazy I guess I have to take the pessimistic way and say, well we're pretty much doomed.

Then again, you could get activity from the users here. Sure you guys complain about GC not being fun anymore but are you really trying to change that? No, you just complain about it and expect others to hand you your fun. Really the only Poster that seems to put effort into making threads anymore is Rye and even she gets busy. We shouldn't have to rely on one or a few posters to keep the activity alive. You're all at fault. We can blame the games, we can blame no new people, but you guys are just as much at fault.

No one cares about it anymore because you guys aren't showing a very good example. I can't just say you guys cause I'm at fault too. Newbies come and what they see is the same thing they see in every forum. Nothing to catch the eye. Why? Cause were not coming out with anything interesting.

You want activity, give those rare new people a reason to stay.

[Miriel]

You guys. Here's what we do.

Everybody stop posting, stop doing anything to the front site, drive the activity down even further, and make EoFF worth even less. Then we'll buy the site for like $100! And then we'll fix everything we want to fix and do the renovations we wanna do.

PS. Don't donate any money guys. EoFF isn't hurting for cash. It's hurting for new members and activity.

[Del Murder]

You guys. Here's what we do.

Everybody stop posting, stop doing anything to the front site, drive the activity down even further, and make EoFF worth even less. Then we'll buy the site for like $100!

Brilliant! *bans everyone*

[Jess]

Nobody likes Final Fantasy anymore.

Hell, I haven't played Final Fantasy in like 4 years!

[Momiji]

Everybody stop posting, stop doing anything to the front site

Hasn't that been the trend since July?

[Tavrobel]

Hasn't that been the trend since July?

Some people haven't gotten the memo we put out in a post some time ago.

[black orb]

>>> I'd rather have quality over quantity..

[Shoeberto]

Some things people are saying are the same things we've been discussing in the staff forum for, well, quite some time now. The big brick wall we've always run into is that either we literally are unable to do something due to limited server access or we don't really, or don't expect anyone else to have the motivation to do something since it'd just be driving up profit for people we never see.

[Rye]

I think am going to to donate some money to EoFF

How do you intend on doing this, and what do you expect to come out of it?

With my credit card -> paypal? xD But yeah, I see your point.

I may well host a contest though and buy the winner a little something, good idea, Monda! Hmmm! Preferrably closer to the summer months, when I have a job and I'm not struggling myself as a poor college student. xD

[Levian]

I think the Newbie Committee that got started earlier was an excellent idea. Did that get scrapped or something?

[Marshall Banana]

Then again, you could get activity from the users here. Sure you guys complain about GC not being fun anymore but are you really trying to change that? No, you just complain about it and expect others to hand you your fun. Really the only Poster that seems to put effort into making threads anymore is Rye and even she gets busy. We shouldn't have to rely on one or a few posters to keep the activity alive. You're all at fault. We can blame the games, we can blame no new people, but you guys are just as much at fault.

No one cares about it anymore because you guys aren't showing a very good example. I can't just say you guys cause I'm at fault too. Newbies come and what they see is the same thing they see in every forum. Nothing to catch the eye. Why? Cause were not coming out with anything interesting.

You want activity, give those rare new people a reason to stay.

I don't think it's unreasonable for members to expect the staff to make fun for them. Staff members don't have a lot of work on their hands, anyway; this place doesn't require a lot of moderation/rule enforcement.

[Tavrobel]

I think the Newbie Committee that got started earlier was an excellent idea. Did that get scrapped or something?

I vaguely remember what you're talking about. I think people just stopped caring when there weren't any newbies to deal with.

[Flying Mullet]

I think the Newbie Committee ended up being as dedicated as the Site Staff.

[Rye]

I think the Newbie Committee is a good idea too. I'm gonna be a gayasaurus rex with this analogy, but just putting it out there... we should be like Neopets! (I was playing it the other night while FFXI decided to take 9 hours to update... xD)

When you first get started, they give you a little backpack with starting out items and kind of instructions on how to get started. Obviously, we're not going to give them stuff, but I think if someone, possibly the first person to post a welcome in the newbie thread that's part of the committee, were to then PM the person giving them like, a little speech that we prepared, explaining the forums and welcoming them to ask for help in their confusion, I think it'd be a very welcoming and fostering environment, imho~

And yeah, word up Lekana on the thread thing. Making threads is just as fun as posting in them. It gives you good melly feeling to have made a thread that people like. I feel like people who just complain are like Mr. Grinch. Make some threads, and your hearts will grow 2 sizes bigger, and EoFF will have twice the activity. Even just one relevant thread a day really helps. Try it!

[Del Murder]

There is already an automated pm from Loony BoB that goes out to each new member, welcoming them to the forum and encouraging a welcome thread in GC.