Since GOA aint doing it, maybe Freddys can?

[Ogrelin Blodig]

I'm talking about an invitation mail to all registred users in the daoc-section.

Just an idea

Won't incluse any free days or anything, just a way to make daoc seen by old players ect...

My alliance is planning to send out a mail to all old members, maybe we can make a few come back to the cluster?

 

[old.Whoodoo]

Its called spam, and most people hate it, Freddies is a general gaming forum, and thats all, I think most of us also ticked a box saying "send me stuff and Ill ram it up your a**e" somewhere when signing up.

 

[Farbaute2]

I always thought this forum was all about spam. at least thats my experience from these years. If someone should reactivate because of this is that agains the forum policy? Or is it only useless spam and spam that make people leave the game that is allowed here?

 

[Azagthoth]

Its called spam, and most people hate it, Freddies is a general gaming forum, and thats all, I think most of us also ticked a box saying "send me stuff and Ill ram it up your a**e" somewhere when signing up.

Its called a creative idea!!!

 

[Bahumat]

Its called a creative idea!!!

No its not

 

[Yeke]

I belive GoA did send out offers to old players all be it only ones who's acc's had been closed over a year or something, but still its quite frankly too little and too late.

The one thing threads like this show whilst the ideas might not be valid is that the playerbase (old and new) is crying out for something.. anything to be done/announced and its annoying that GoA seem to be disregarding this and pushing there heads ever deeper into the proverbial sand over this issue.

 

[Ctuchik]

Its called a creative idea!!!

its still classified as spam. no matter the intention.

 

[Azagthoth]

ok ok.
what I wanted to say was that its nice to see one whos trying to do something.
And instead of allways bashing the ideas and be negative I think this community needs abit of positive thinking for a change.
All in all "we" are the game, not goa nor mythic.
If we all stop playing the game it dies if we all play it lives, thats how it works.
Goa cant really do anything major to change the situation besides commercials which isnt going to happen cus it costs to much.

 

[Ogrelin Blodig]

I don't really care if it's called spam or not.

I know GOA sends out mail to accounts closed 1 year ago, but what about accounts closed the 4 first years? they won't get any invites! I think it's a bigger chance somone who quit long ago may want to take a 2nd look at DAoC now, then somone who just quit 1 year ago.

I know it was a longshot to suggest freddys doing something...but what the hell!!?

Maybe somone who has an old community/alliance forum could pick up the idea and use it.

 

[Laddey]

Using your initiative! Who in the right mind is going to come back to a game with 300people on primetime? I havn't played EU in ages so i don't know the exact population.

If somebody emailed me asking what your intending, i'd check it up see the population and probably forget the idea. That's just my POV anyway good idea, i guesse!

 

[Ogrelin Blodig]

Using your initiative! Who in the right mind is going to come back to a game with 300people on primetime? I havn't played EU in ages so i don't know the exact population.

If somebody emailed me asking what your intending, i'd check it up see the population and probably forget the idea. That's just my POV anyway good idea, i guesse!

Well, My original idea was to send the mail to pople who I'v been playing with (Mainly the Norrsken alliance) and ask them to try the game out again, just to meet old friends ect...some ppl might want to spend a couple of £ doing that, some not. (Oldtimes meens alot to many ppl)

I just spent 2 month on the US-server but I didn't like the way I always missed the fun stuff becouse it's happening when I'm asleep. The EU-servers can and hopefully will be able to supply me whith alot of fun that I won't miss becouse of the time diffrence.

I had alot of fun two night ago when all realms had insta port to Hib on Dyvet so all fun aint gone!

If we just can make enough ppl come back and play we will see even more fun return to the cluster.

 

[Faeldawn]

I'm talking about an invitation mail to all registred users in the daoc-section.

Just an idea

Won't incluse any free days or anything, just a way to make daoc seen by old players ect...

My alliance is planning to send out a mail to all old members, maybe we can make a few come back to the cluster?

That really is like flogging a dead horse

 

[Ogrelin Blodig]

That really is like flogging a dead horse

Ever heard of a bonedancer?

 

[IainC]

I know GOA sends out mail to accounts closed 1 year ago, but what about accounts closed the 4 first years? they won't get any invites! I think it's a bigger chance somone who quit long ago may want to take a 2nd look at DAoC now, then somone who just quit 1 year ago.

That is how it works though. If you quit more than 1 year ago you will receive the email. So anyone who quit at any time between the game launch and about 1 year ago will be invited to use the free days.

 

[Bahumat]

Ever heard of a bonedancer?

Yet another reason people wont come back

 

[Ogrelin Blodig]

That is how it works though. If you quit more than 1 year ago you will receive the email. So anyone who quit at any time between the game launch and about 1 year ago will be invited to use the free days.

Seems to me like you(GOA) needs to make the bait abit more tempting then since noone is comming back make it a longer trial, offer gifts ect...

 

[Raven]

That is how it works though. If you quit more than 1 year ago you will receive the email. So anyone who quit at any time between the game launch and about 1 year ago will be invited to use the free days.

how about doing something useful like offering people who quit recently and are uming and aring about coming back a free month?

 

[old.Whoodoo]

I did think 8 days free was a tad daft, after all you get 14 days for free trial.. c'est la vie.

The other thing is, this is a word of mouth driven game, and theres few left who would support the idea of people returning, even those here who say "I want people back.." would end the sentance "..the servers are dead, we are desperate!!" and make it once again unappealing to others.

Them those people think "Ill check out what others think eh.." and come here and read all these opinions, theres the nail in the coffin!

 

[Gear]

Well a good idea but... 8 days?! Who came up with that number? Why not a month, not like you'd lose anymoney, just some more bandwidth usage. And just activate those accounts anyway, don't provide a link for em, make it easy for people to just logon asap.

 

[Faeldawn]

That is how it works though. If you quit more than 1 year ago you will receive the email. So anyone who quit at any time between the game launch and about 1 year ago will be invited to use the free days.

That sums up GOA perfectly im afraid.

So you target the players who have most likely uninstalled and moved on for good a minimum of 12 months ago (likely most of those emails will be inactive by now as well), but not the recent leavers who might be much more inclined and easily swayed to return?

What do you do for an encore? Try to sell sand to Arabs?

 

[Faeldawn]

Well a good idea but... 8 days?! Who came up with that number? Why not a month, not like you'd lose anymoney, just some more bandwidth usage. And just activate those accounts anyway, don't provide a link for em, make it easy for people to just logon asap.

That is the intelligent way of using this approach, make it as easy for the players to return as possible by just reactivating their accounts and telling them they have x days to play for free if they so wish. Unfortunately you have to remember who your talking too here

<Sits silently waiting for the "we can't reactivate players accounts without their permission for whatever reason" bullplop excuse>

 

[IainC]

That is the intelligent way of using this approach, make it as easy for the players to return as possible by just reactivating their accounts and telling them they have x days to play for free if they so wish. Unfortunately you have to remember who your talking too here

<Sits silently waiting for the "we can't reactivate players accounts without their permission for whatever reason" bullplop excuse>

We don't auomatically reactivate people's accounts because we figure it's better to let them choose when they want to play the free time. If we reopen their accounts and thay don't notice the email for a few days or they are on holiday or whatever they'll miss most of the offer. This way they can choose to start whenever they like and whenever it's most convenient for them.

The only thing they have to do is to click on a link to begin the free time. I'm struggling to understand why that's considered overcomplex?

 

[Bugz]

We don't auomatically reactivate people's accounts because we figure it's better to let them choose when they want to play the free time. If we reopen their accounts and thay don't notice the email for a few days or they are on holiday or whatever they'll miss most of the offer. This way they can choose to start whenever they like and whenever it's most convenient for them.

The only thing they have to do is to click on a link to begin the free time. I'm struggling to understand why that's considered overcomplex?

Are you limited by the amount of emails you can send to any one customer offering them to return to the game?

Otherwise, couldn't you send out an email every month or what have you, to the inactive people, enticing them to the game. Obviously, each month change the way to entice them or whatever.

 

[GReaper]

It's a nice gesture, but it isn't really that much of an offer. Yes it gets a few people clicking the link, logging in for a while and possibly RvRing for a few hours.

I'd say it's a very distant way of dealing with customers. GOA should try and participate more in the events on the server.

 

[Gear]

We don't auomatically reactivate people's accounts because we figure it's better to let them choose when they want to play the free time. If we reopen their accounts and thay don't notice the email for a few days or they are on holiday or whatever they'll miss most of the offer. This way they can choose to start whenever they like and whenever it's most convenient for them.

The only thing they have to do is to click on a link to begin the free time. I'm struggling to understand why that's considered overcomplex?

If you're struggling to understand a simple thing... I'm sorry for you and your offsprings.

Just hire someone with some marketing experience please, will you?

 

[Raven]

We don't auomatically reactivate people's accounts because we figure it's better to let them choose when they want to play the free time. If we reopen their accounts and thay don't notice the email for a few days or they are on holiday or whatever they'll miss most of the offer. This way they can choose to start whenever they like and whenever it's most convenient for them.

The only thing they have to do is to click on a link to begin the free time. I'm struggling to understand why that's considered overcomplex?

why don't you offer the free time (more than a crappy 8 days, try a month) to recent leavers who still have template, in game friends etc. what the hell is someone who left two years ago (or whatever) going to do in 8 days?

They will try to re-equip, find nobody in pve and quit, 8 days isnt enough time to even come close to getting up to speed. all it will do is remind them why they dont play anymore.

give it to those that left 6 months -1 month ago, people who are still unsure about leaving and you may find a return.

Though in all honesty this is just another ploy in your (goa, not you personally) attempt to pacify the current population. its just not good enough