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<blockquote data-quote="Abstruse" data-source="post: 7741294" data-attributes="member: 6669048"><p>Honestly, it's pretty common with a lot of game companies.</p><p></p><p>Game companies are small compared to other media companies. Creating in-depth product pages takes time and/or money. If you make the product pages yourself, that's time spent on that rather than on social media marketing (which is far more effective) or on writing/editing/layout of the products themselves. If you outsource it, you either have to hire someone with experience in the tabletop game industry (which you'd probably want to hire them to write for your product if that's the case) or you hire one of those copywriting firms who may or may not "get" the tabletop gaming market and write everything up like it's a next gen console game for XTREEEEMMLGPROGAMER360NOSCOPEGITGUD!!1111, which is worse than having nothing on your site.</p><p></p><p>So they focus everything on social media posts to Facebook/Twitter/Instagram and on press releases. Which is why a lot of my links go to EN World articles or other news sites. I get a press release email, but I can't link to my own inbox. I don't want to copy the entire press release myself but I want to link it if you or anyone else does want to read it. But those press releases tend to have only a couple of lines or maybe a paragraph of relevant information. Sometimes as much as half of a press release goes to "About Us" style summaries meant for more mainstream outlets that are covering tabletop who may not know all the companies involved: A short history of the developer, a short history of the IP holder, and/or a short history of the IP itself. Anyone reading my column probably doesn't need a primer on who or what Cubicle 7, Games Workshop, and Warhammer Fantasy are. Either you know more than any summary, or you're not interested in the company/IP in the first place. And the few people who are interested, I provide links so they can find out more.</p><p></p><p>I mean, there are companies out there who are still actively publishing monthly titles if not multiple titles a month whose website doesn't have updated "News" information since 2015. If you want to know the most up-to-date information on a product these days, the best way is to follow the companies and/or designers on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, YouTube, Twitch, etc. or regularly check news sites like EN World.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Abstruse, post: 7741294, member: 6669048"] Honestly, it's pretty common with a lot of game companies. Game companies are small compared to other media companies. Creating in-depth product pages takes time and/or money. If you make the product pages yourself, that's time spent on that rather than on social media marketing (which is far more effective) or on writing/editing/layout of the products themselves. If you outsource it, you either have to hire someone with experience in the tabletop game industry (which you'd probably want to hire them to write for your product if that's the case) or you hire one of those copywriting firms who may or may not "get" the tabletop gaming market and write everything up like it's a next gen console game for XTREEEEMMLGPROGAMER360NOSCOPEGITGUD!!1111, which is worse than having nothing on your site. So they focus everything on social media posts to Facebook/Twitter/Instagram and on press releases. Which is why a lot of my links go to EN World articles or other news sites. I get a press release email, but I can't link to my own inbox. I don't want to copy the entire press release myself but I want to link it if you or anyone else does want to read it. But those press releases tend to have only a couple of lines or maybe a paragraph of relevant information. Sometimes as much as half of a press release goes to "About Us" style summaries meant for more mainstream outlets that are covering tabletop who may not know all the companies involved: A short history of the developer, a short history of the IP holder, and/or a short history of the IP itself. Anyone reading my column probably doesn't need a primer on who or what Cubicle 7, Games Workshop, and Warhammer Fantasy are. Either you know more than any summary, or you're not interested in the company/IP in the first place. And the few people who are interested, I provide links so they can find out more. I mean, there are companies out there who are still actively publishing monthly titles if not multiple titles a month whose website doesn't have updated "News" information since 2015. If you want to know the most up-to-date information on a product these days, the best way is to follow the companies and/or designers on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, YouTube, Twitch, etc. or regularly check news sites like EN World. [/QUOTE]
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