Show Notes - Episode #2: Being Heard - January 6 style="font-weight: bold;">, 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.

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• 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.

Links

• Loading... - Ten Ton Hammer's daily newsletter and column
• Loading... Live Episode 1: Not Funny... Forever

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• 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.

Links

• href="http://www.tentonhammer.com/news">Ten Ton Hammer Latest News href="http://www.tentonhammer.com/node/13411">
• Pirates of the Burning Sea AvCombat Patch
• Age of Conan DX10 Screens
• Worlds.com NCSoft lawsuit

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Being Heard cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" width="160">

• 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.


Links

• The Ten Ton Hammer forums

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