Org Promotion

[Gregoshi]

Thats all you focused on in the two posts i made? Dude

My post was directed at the Org community as a whole (self included), hence I used "we" rather than "you". Your comment about wanting to talk about TW was a convenient prompting point for what I wanted to say. No offense was intended. I'm sorry that offense was taken.

[edyzmedieval]

Fire those ideas!

And provide feedback on those posted above.

[Monk]

My post was directed at the Org community as a whole (self included), hence I used "we" rather than "you". Your comment about wanting to talk about TW was a convenient prompting point for what I wanted to say. No offense was intended. I'm sorry that offense was taken.

oh, makes sense. no worries amigo!

[Crandar]

From my experience, the best way to lure CA reps is to post something very negative about the games, which is though factually wrong, due to a minor, insignificant technicality.
Then, hilarity ensues.

But it doesn't really matter, everything is in the decline, even their official playground, as the future is reddit. Maybe the future of the future will again be a nice, traditional forum.
I think the best way to succeed is to find out why twcenter became more popular than .org and then try to reverse the past, by faithfully copying it.

[Mouzafphaerre]

LET'S MAKE ORG GREAT AGAIN!!!


Sorry just had to do that!

Ahem...now...

the future is reddit. Maybe the future of the future will again be a nice, traditional forum.

It may very well be so, and not only on the social mass-media vs. independent websites ground. For instance, despite the apparent trend of mobile devices' ever increasing market share (measured from OS usage, IOS/Android vs. Win/Linux et al) I don't believe that, for hardcore (or even semi-hardcore) gamers, mobile will ever be an alternative (let alone the next platform); nor will the species of hardcore (or semi-hardcore) gamer will ever go extinct.

I support an index revamp, without letting go any of the subfora but rather more compactly organizing the existing ones.

Beyond that, I doubt much can be done. It's merely a wild guess but I think the overall population of the more recent TW titles are predominantly of the younger internet generation born into social mass-media. I suspect quite a few of them even don't know what a forum is Indeed, we as old farts deliberately use forum lingo on Twitter to crush the young vermin with holy agism

In a different way the above is also valid for the older TW titles' fanbase still playing their games actively or on an on/off manner. Since I can only speak with certainty for myself, let me take me as an example, though how much of an archetype I can make is debatable I watch whenever EBII release a new build, fire up my MiNO (known to the clueless youth as Medieval 2 TW) and play it to death, reading and posting at both their ORG and TWC subfora, revamping my never completed minor tweak attempts.

I played Shogun 2 for a few hours, enjoyed the novelty of naval combat for a while, then simply deleted it. Glad I hadn't bought it (come and get the evil pirate CA!!). When R2 was on the horizon it was laughing stock for ancient historians/enthusiasts who were also gamers/interested in gaming. Never turned and looked at any other TW title again. OTOH I recently re-bought a MTW/VI on Humblebundle and planning to do the same for Rome/BI sometime.

For my grand strategy needs (other than EB and recently IB on MiNO) I play EUIV, despite the complete lack of battle maps. CA (actually Sega) made a choice, which several other mega-corpos did and catered to the ever passing yet ever replenishing ultra-pop youth. Anyway, I digress. Old timers come back for old times' and fellow old timers' sake. I don't think you can attract many (if not most) of them by promoting the newest shiniest CA toy.

tl/dr; Some spicing up would be nice but I don't think we need worry ourselves too much with an ORG revival. In the end, there's also the risk of getting something revived at the cost of good old ORG.