When will these forums be split?Follow

Title says it all, when will these forums have catergories like the rest of the games. Would definetely help as far as organization goes.

There have been a couple posts on this in the past, and i'll just repeat what was said then now.

The current forum usage doesn't require the forums to be split.

What that basically means is they will be split when there a lot of new posts per day and the forums become more active.

Well, the problem really isn't in there is a lack of posts, though that does have to deal with it... the problem mainly comes from there aren't a lot of active POSTERS. So, splitting the forums will split the already small amount of posts and wont help really. Now, the two do go hand in hand though, more posters means more posts. More posts means more posters will likely come.

Well, the way I understand it from the prior threads that is.

Why on earth not? Would they be more attracted to a Hunter only forum with two posts in it?

More forums means more splitting up of the community. I say to keep it a single forum until the situation really calls for it. The General Everquest forum did fine for seven-odd years as a catch-all for posts. Yes, there were class/race forums but they weren't available through the forum listings and were pretty much unused.

Edited, May 14th 2007 7:19am by Jophiel

My point is, it doesnt "cost" anything extra, and it might generate more traffic setting up a general class and trade forum. You cant prophecise in advance what will do what on the internet (im in the "sellsellsell stuff on internet business too ;)) If ive learned anything you cant assume anything on "what works" on the internet, it depends on the community and even on the moonphase. So dont, try stuff out and see if it works.
And if it fails you can merge and reverse it, its worth a shot imo.

You could start out with a general class forums that could generate threads explaining and discussing classes, i havent seen them around here on General and im on the impression those would be discussed/posted more if you had a seperate class forum, (i personally would post such threads in a class forums and not at all in general bc it gets lost in the "is my spec good enough?" fluff that seems to be "90%" of the posts) maybe Allakhazam even gets some good and free guides out of it (LOTRO guides as it is now are pretty **** poor) that can be editted/maintained.
And people dont go looking for Class discussions in a General forum especially with the windows/google generation that only read the first 5 lines of a page anyway.

The question is not about dividing traffic but how to generate more. Unless Alla is ok with the same 30 persons posting over and over again without building a larger community. If you do nothing, nothing happens. (thanks for the EQ example Jophiel ;))

As i said in my PoV: It doesnt cost more, if it works, more traffic/guides/money for Alla, and if it doesnt work, nobody got killed. (cost vs risk n stuff)

As it is now, Allakhazam is only seen (at least by my "kin") as the thottbot for LOTRO, and i dont think that's Alla's only aim.
They have a unique position for LOTRO now, MMO's are hot now, time to build on it, imo.

Edited, May 14th 2007 10:55am by Sjans

??? EQ has seperate class forums that (were) well visited and posted on ???

And i dont know about EQ but with WoW guides to put in the guides section are generated on class / crafting forums and not on general forums.

And there is damn handy link about critical crafting components that made it into my bookmarks but fell to page 3.

My point still is, you dont know until you try, if you dont do anything, yes it will stay the same.

Edited, May 14th 2007 11:14am by Sjans

We never have these debates on the Vanguard forum.

Maybe if they split up the Vanguard forums, you'd have more traffic!

Speaking of, does SOE/Sigil not maintain official V:SoH general forums? I went lookin' last night and could only find official tech support forums hosted by SOE.

I understand why Alla you would not want to split the forums into a hundred different sub forums, but why not just add a couple, guides, trade and class discussion. Just those three imo would make it a bit easier to look for information that is already posted. I'm not sure if that would increase traffic or not but it would make finding any relevant info much easier. It is my experience that on most sites the general discussion area is usually more useless banter than anything useful. So I could see others coming here and see only one area and think that it is not an active site and not worth posting, or looking thru ten pages of posts to find what you want you are looking for.

Honestly, I believe the primary reason for low traffic on this forum is simply because Turbine runs their own forums that actually don't suck. Which is a departure from most MMORPG official forums.

Problem with those is they are usually full of gibberish that will help no one any way.

I understand why people want split forums but the arguments don't hold much water. Threads don't fall off the front page very quickly so they are there to be seen for a few days. I doubt the traffic will increase because of a split and they won't get split until traffic does increase so you end up with the 2 sides at a standstill. If a split is wanted that badly, people need to get more people to come participate here and make these forums as active as the other more popular ones on the site. I myself try to direct as many of my friends as possible to here since I've always been a big supporter of Allah's through 5 games and 7 years now. This has always been my first source for info and community before looking elsewhere.