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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BrooklynKnight" data-source="post: 2671246" data-attributes="member: 4490">And this is where Enworld has a built in advantage over other storefronts. It has a forum base of thousands of users who already HAVE accounts and direct access to the store without having to sign up again.The question is, will developers see this as benefit? When posting their press releases at enworld, they have one of two options now...A. They can post a link to their own site from which they can point fans to all their storefronts..B. They can post a link to their Enworld Store front, where an Enworld member is already logged in and a click away from purchase. In B its almost exactly like before, except previously the primary choice of link was rpgnow. Face it, a LOT of enworlders shop there because it was the first, and for a long time it was the best. Now, Enworld is trying to shimmy into that place by following the same method. Except Morrus is using his own forum, and trying to ensure that his link is used in place of another.Its solid buisness strategy. It may not seem particularly fair to developers or some consumers because now they are limited in what they can post. But ENGS is a buisness, and ENworld has been needing to be run like a Buisness for a long time now. It cant survive on yearly donations.Overall, a lot of people trust Enworld the forum, and the trust Rpgnow the store (remember how many throngs of people defended rpgnow when DTRPG came out?), the question is will that trust in the forum translate to trust in the store? That remains to be seen.Enworld has a diffrent policy regarding free stuff. DTRPG gave away expensive free pdf's to get attention. But Enworld doesnt NEED that same attention.It does however need to be marketed properly.If the ENGS is going to be a success outside the bounds of the Enworld Forum it needs to be advertised correctly.I do want to commend ENGS however that their marketing policy doesnt seem to have changed. I clicked to the front page of Enworld this morning, and I see 2 adds for Rpgnow along with the EnGS announcement! How fair and balanced is that? Its great.As for Marketing, I think its obvious that ENGS needs to invest in banner marketing at other major forum websites. Not only that but there are a TON of geek websites out there that gamers read, but may not be aware of enworld all together. I have a number of suggestions Id be happy to voice. Maybe I'll put them in another post. Or if Morrus rathers i dont, Id be happy to tell him and chris privatly as well.</blockquote>

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