Show Notes - Episode #2: Being Heard - January 6
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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
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Introductions
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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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News and Events
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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.
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Pirates of the Burning Sea AvCombat Patch
Age of Conan DX10 Screens
Worlds.com NCSoft lawsuit
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Being Heard
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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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