Is it worth having a separate forum for Kickstarters?

Bagpuss · Mar 1, 2013

They are effectively advertising anyway, plus it would be nice to have one place to find them.

Morrus · Mar 1, 2013

We closed the publisher/press release forum on account of nobody reading it. There's a press page that publishers can use. Plus we have an entire website for RPG Kickstarters.

Umbran · Mar 5, 2013

The problem with putting all references to Kickstarter projects in one place is that nobody sees them unless they are actively looking for them, which is not terribly useful. Part of the value of this place is that you run into cool stuff accidentally, without expecting it.

Mark CMG · Mar 5, 2013

Seems to take two or three days for a thread to be bumped off the first page of the Tabletop Forum, FWIW.

Dice4Hire · Mar 6, 2013

I am happy with them where they are.

Morrus · Mar 6, 2013

Mark CMG said:
Seems to take two or three days for a thread to be bumped off the first page of the Tabletop Forum, FWIW.

Which is amazing! A few years ago, our "Other Games" forum took two weeks to bump a thread off. Tabletop being the current "other games" forum shows that we are - slowly - managing that transition to a general tabletop gaming forum. A few more years, and it will be as busy as the D&D forum is, which has always been our "main" busy forum under various names.

Mark CMG · Mar 6, 2013

Morrus said:
Which is amazing! A few years ago, our "Other Games" forum took two weeks to bump a thread off. Tabletop being the current "other games" forum shows that we are - slowly - managing that transition to a general tabletop gaming forum. A few more years, and it will be as busy as the D&D forum is, which has always been our "main" busy forum under various names.

And it's a good transition, the "tabletop" forum, since so many games these days seem to have crossover game tie-ins and such. Plus, many game components can be used in multiple games, particularly minis and dice, of course.

Roland55 · Mar 6, 2013

Morrus said:
We closed the publisher/press release forum on account of nobody reading it. There's a press page that publishers can use. Plus we have an entire website for RPG Kickstarters.

Guess I really AM an old dog. Didn't realize this ...