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Old 04-27-2008, 10:01 PM   #1 (permalink)
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What do you want from a community gaming site?

Unfortunately I've been remiss the last couple of weeks in post a poll. I was out of town at the beginning end of the Microsoft MVP summit the first Sunday and I was traveling back from PickleJam 2008 for the last Sunday. But here we are.

I was honored to host an Open Session meeting while at the summit. I'll be posting the notes from the section to get thoughts going here at PGL sometime this week. The topic was "Building and Sustaining a Gaming Community." I hosted two sessions and it was interested how each session took a different direction in the conversation. There were some overlaps, however, and I found them very interesting.

Since I had a chance to hear what my fellow MVP's thought about gaming communities, it is definitely time for us to ask the question of my fellow PGL'ers. In fact, we're at somewhat of a crossroads. The owners and admins of PGL have been chatting about making some tweaks to the site to refocus PGL in the direction we think it is heading. Before we do, however, we figured we'd throw out the question and let you all tell us what you find important.

This week's poll is a bit different in that I have opened it up so that you all can vote on multiple items. Hopefully you all read this before voting. But if not, or if I haven't included something you find important, please post and let us know. We value your input since this is a community that has essentially built itself; we want to keep it that way.
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Old 04-28-2008, 02:37 AM   #2 (permalink)
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I look really for about four items. 1) new gaming friends, 2) other people's impressions of games, 3) general comeradity, and 4) help with games.
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Old 04-28-2008, 04:44 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Just friendly people that I can talk to. A lack of drama is always nice.
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Old 04-28-2008, 06:58 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Im looking for a couple things:
1. Cool people to game with
2. A place that can organize events/nights to game together
3. Fellow gamer impressions of new releases.
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Old 04-28-2008, 07:52 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Im looking for a couple things:
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3. Fellow gamer impressions of new releases.
Ditto.
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Old 04-28-2008, 01:20 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Like minded homies.
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Old 04-28-2008, 02:24 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Who's mind are we talking about...? I can live with Supa's mind. If it's Pickle's mind, things begin to get a little dicey...
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Old 04-28-2008, 02:26 PM   #8 (permalink)
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i would say member game reviews because they are generally honest and reliable.
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Old 04-28-2008, 03:32 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Good peeps and good info but PGL has all that.I think we need to look more into online dating''joking Peench''I think PGL needs to fine tune are tournament's
I know all of you work hard at putting these things together but I think there is room for inprovment.I would love to help in any way that I can.Thats what I would like to see from my community gaming site
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Old 04-28-2008, 06:11 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Who's mind are we talking about...? I can live with Supa's mind. If it's Pickle's mind, things begin to get a little dicey...
A little of everyones mind helps. Too much pickle is never good for ya though.
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Old 04-28-2008, 06:49 PM   #11 (permalink)
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A little of everyones mind helps. Too much pickle is never good for ya though.
Wrong,I make ya all feel smart
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Old 04-28-2008, 06:57 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Old 04-28-2008, 07:13 PM   #13 (permalink)
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One thing I really like about this site is that there is never any drama here. For a site with so many members, the crowd here seems really tolerant of each other and any flaming is rare.

I also look for gaming tips and reviews from other members.
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Old 04-29-2008, 01:01 AM   #14 (permalink)
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Old 04-29-2008, 08:29 AM   #15 (permalink)
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I chose Member Game Reviews and Other:

I don't know diddly about some random guy's reviews, such as what he looks for in a game, how he plays, etc. With MEMBER reviews, odds are I've gamed with the person who wrote it and can pretty much determine if I'd like it based on knowing similar game likes/dislikes, know what I mean? I don't want to just take someone's word for it, because these so called "professional gamers" usually suck so bad at reviews I just want to pee on them.

As for the "other" it would be right there with what the Pickle said: tourneys. We have a lot of good & not so good players interested in this, but something always seems to go south with them. Maybe a separate category for those interested or something? I dunno - just a thought. I know they're supposed to be for fun.
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Old 04-29-2008, 12:02 PM   #16 (permalink)
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These are great ideas, comments and suggestions guys!! Keep them coming. Thanks!!
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Old 04-29-2008, 12:49 PM   #17 (permalink)
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