Dhalgren
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It costs you nothing and it would vastly expand the reach of your "Service News" messages. They are relatively infrequent anyway.
This would really help people know what's going to be going on. I'd venture that the vast majority of the playerbase doesn't exactly have "Service News" feeding their phones (although I'm sure there are a few keeners). At least people who follow the main forum would get a heads-up.
Even better would be some kind of in-game notification, perhaps in the Social dialog (since you have been working on that recently). Of the people who play, not that many frequent the forums anyway. Of those who do, I'd wager not many keep tabs on "Service News" (yes we should but let's be real). So Service News is really only helpful to a fairly small minority of players.
Should we follow Service News religiously? Sure. Are people going to? Nah, probably not. Is that your problem? Kinda, I guess, since a downtime mentioned only in Service News is likely to be missed by people until they get the "please find a safe place to log out" message and then wonder why you didn't make more of an effort to inform them beforehand.
It's kind of like if Deadpool was managing this but before every extended downtime, whispered to himself: "Minimum effort".
This would really help people know what's going to be going on. I'd venture that the vast majority of the playerbase doesn't exactly have "Service News" feeding their phones (although I'm sure there are a few keeners). At least people who follow the main forum would get a heads-up.
Even better would be some kind of in-game notification, perhaps in the Social dialog (since you have been working on that recently). Of the people who play, not that many frequent the forums anyway. Of those who do, I'd wager not many keep tabs on "Service News" (yes we should but let's be real). So Service News is really only helpful to a fairly small minority of players.
Should we follow Service News religiously? Sure. Are people going to? Nah, probably not. Is that your problem? Kinda, I guess, since a downtime mentioned only in Service News is likely to be missed by people until they get the "please find a safe place to log out" message and then wonder why you didn't make more of an effort to inform them beforehand.
It's kind of like if Deadpool was managing this but before every extended downtime, whispered to himself: "Minimum effort".
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