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Loading... Live Episode 2 - Being Heard

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Updated Thu, Jan 22, 2009 by Ethec

Show Notes - Episode #2: Being Heard - January 6, 2009

Length: 23:51

Synopsis: Ten Ton Hammer's second episode of Loading... Live welcomes two reigning forums goddesses Shayalyn and Autumnkiss, as they track the trends of online games forums throughout their careers.

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Participants

Hosts

  • Jeff "Ethec" Woleslagle
    Editor in Chief- Ten Ton Hammer Network
  • Ben "Machail" de la Durantaye
    Managing Editor - Ten Ton Hammer Network
  • Cody Bye
    Executive Editor - Ten Ton Hammer Network

Guests

  • AutumnKiss
    Vivox Communities Manager and Voon fixer-upper
  • Shayalyn
    Ten Ton Hammer Forums and PR Specialist Extraordinaire
  • You!
    Join us next week on Voon in room Ten Ton Events.
Introductions
  • 0:00 Introductions and pleasantries.
  • 0:46 The magic is gone

Ethec forgets to start recording, and the second intro just doesn't have the same magic.

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News and Events
  • 1:03 The Machail Report
  • 2:24 NCSoft will prevail

Ben reviews the weeks' news, and its mostly about successful MMORPG launches... a year too late. Oh, and this weird worlds.com lawsuit, from which we've decided to copyright the concept of a lawsuit and sue everyone.

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Being Heard
  • 3:04 Curriculum vitae
  • 6:31 The big question.
  • 11:48 How to be heard.
  • 13:47 Managing expectations
  • 16:57 The Vocal Minority
  • 19:20 Drawing the line
  • 28:05 Closing

Do forums (official or otherwise) help or hinder communication between devs and players? That's the big, overarching, almost impossible to answer in a podcast this week, but Shayalyn and Autumnkiss do an admirable job with a minimum of flaming and trolling the OP.

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