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There is a ton of work and thought being put into the InterAction Magazine project as well as other archival projects currently in progress. Please trust us that we will make this stuff happen and that we will do a professional job of it.
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Brandon, I’m not questioning the level of quality of your work or your dedication to the project. I’m just offering input to help it be as much of a success as possible. Sometimes that involves playing the devil’s advocate, which I can do pretty well. Since you pretty much run the project, you know better about what will work and what won’t, and you know certain truths that I do not. That said, I will say what’s on my mind, but ask that no one be too offended if I seem somewhat of a jerk.
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“… (by Brandon Klassen) SierraGamers has 4750 registered users at this time. Never mind all the adventure fans we can reach through various other adventure websites and message boards who may not be registered here….
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Though there may be 4700+ registered users, I daresay hardly any of them are active. It seems to me this message board gets an average of one post a day. The marketing of the archival project will definitely have to expand beyond the borders of this site.
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….I’m not really sure that adding a little message from Ken would make it any more marketable – after all, there are lots of little messages from Ken on these message boards already.
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Actually I wasn’t really thinking of Ken at all. If I recall correctly, he regularly wrote articles in Interaction, anyway. Of course he and Roberta were important primary figures at Sierra, but so too were the employees. It’d be cool if they could write memoirs about the early days and you could see different accounts about how Sierra built up over the years. Of course, they would have to be located, convinced to write such things, and compensated – which most likely makes the whole idea impractical.
My whole point is that I think it would be a good idea if you could throw something in there that adds value to the purchase…Something no one’s ever seen before that could provide more incentive for someone to buy it. You may have gathered from the tone of my earlier posts that I’m not really that hot on buying the magazines by themselves…But throw in something cool and you’d probably have a sale.