Making Guild Wars 2 an interest on Facebook: Reply
They basically post links with announcements to the forums. You can just log to the forums and see the news there no need to log into facebook
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My topic is a legitimate argument. Almost all companies are guilty of this practice it’s easy and cheap advertising. You add them to your social networking site of choice and now your whole friends/followers now see it. The reason I brought this up was because there was an update note that I missed because someone said they never posted it on the forums but they did indeed post it to twitter.
I’m just asking if they want to add it to these social networking sites, please for the love of god add it on the forums as well. The forums should ALWAYS be the first place anything is added.
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Agreed. I haven’t touched facebook in months. It just got way to invasive for me to be comfortable with. Same with google+; however, I do regularly check the dev updates and announcements sections on here and their twitter.
But my most up to date news always seems to come from my girlfriend, who sees it on facebook and lets me know. Im getting the information third-hand (we told facebook, who told your girlfriend, who told you).
That update section already runs along the right, why not have a feed there that echoes Anet’s posts to twitter or facebook?
I hear about everything eventually. Seconds after an announcement anywhere on the internet there is usually a thread here created. But…I dunno…feels sort of like Anet CMs have their own guild, a twitter guild, and a facebook guild; seems like they usually rep the facebook guild and everyone else gets the info as it goes down the chain.
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Guilty of it? I think it is great that companies use social media to spread information. It is one of the most effective means of doing so (and yes it’s easy and cheap).
That said, I follow GW2 on facebook, and I do not find they post a lot there that I do not see on the forums as well. The biggest things that don’t cross over might be news regarding upcoming interviews etc.
Over 800,000 people like their facebook page, so it is certainly a great way to spread the word. I’d imagine more players see information on facebook than the forums. This may be ANets best way to reach the broadest audience.
Why do you have such a problem with Facebook anyway?
Guilty of it? I think it is great that companies use social media to spread information. It is one of the most effective means of doing so (and yes it’s easy and cheap).
That said, I follow GW2 on facebook, and I do not find they post a lot there that I do not see on the forums as well. The biggest things that don’t cross over might be news regarding upcoming interviews etc.
Over 800,000 people like their facebook page, so it is certainly a great way to spread the word. I’d imagine more players see information on facebook than the forums. This may be ANets best way to reach the broadest audience.
Why do you have such a problem with Facebook anyway?
I said, I am perfectly fine with them doing that. That’s not really my concern. I’m just asking that don’t leave out important information on the forums like events or update notes, even if small.
As to why I don’t like social networking sites is not of this matter and I would rather not get into it at this place or time. I’m going to keep this thread on topic.
I have no problem with them using facebook. Understandably news reaches more people there. It just seems really strange that their news about their game or their studio isn’t on their website first.
It would just seem…tidier if update, promotional and press release information flowed from here. Instead of it flowing to here from various sources.
The Kismet
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I couldn’t agree more with the OP, a company using facebook and twitter instead of their own forums to announce news and changes is pretty weak.
Why not use facebook? P R I V A C Y
I think they have been using the forums for all of their important information. Everything has been in the news and announcements section – or stickied in one of the other areas (i.e. Halloween).
PS: the news and announcements on Facebook almost always is just a link to the forum post.
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PS: the news and announcements on Facebook almost always is just a link to the forum post.
No reason to double post, just edit your previous.
Thank you, your opinion’s are more then welcome here. I just want to keep this thread clean as to not give them a reason to just close and ignore, but there has been a few instances where they did not add certain information to the forums.
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I got message on gmail that Colin had an interview on massively. She said she seen that on GW2’s facebook. Now I haven’t checked in the last hour, so I could be wrong, but when I looked earlier I don’t recall seeing a forum post for that in the announcements section.
The Kismet
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@AcidicVision
1. Colin having an interview is hardly important news and announcements (Not a bash at Colin at all. I wish I could catch the interview, but am at work. I’ll read up on it later)
2. I did say that interviews info etc is posted on Facebook and not on the forums
If you want this type of information, like them on facebook. If you don’t, then don’t. Facebook is free-to-use you know.
Cheers mate.
@Jemmi, thats cute. Nothing is free. If you’re not the customer, then you’re the product. You have a pretty special definition of free-to-use if you can apply it to a service that mines information on you, your friends, and your family and profits on selling your personal business. There are currencies out there besides money.
Other than that, I don’t really see why you are opposed to limiting the availability to information. No one has said here that they are doing a bad thing. In fact, everyone is on the same page as to understanding why facebook is used. The only criticism given is why that news isnt also hosted here?
There are a plethora of reasons people might not use social networking sites. Having news and updates in more places only makes it more widely and immediately available. Which is only good. Not sure why people are getting so defensive on the facebook updating…
The Kismet
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@AcidicVision
1. Colin having an interview is hardly important news and announcements (Not a bash at Colin at all. I wish I could catch the interview, but am at work. I’ll read up on it later)
2. I did say that interviews info etc is posted on Facebook and not on the forumsIf you want this type of information, like them on facebook. If you don’t, then don’t. Facebook is free-to-use you know.
Cheers mate.
Clearly you are not understanding that I do not use social networking sites nor will I ever use them in the future, you can just stop right now with sales pitch. Why should I or any other be required to opt-in to a 3rd party website to get information when there is already a main forum and site?
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I am sorry if I bothered you both. I do not think that Arena Net will change their practices, and I find complaining about it kind of amusing. That said, I am not opposed to If they decide to post news regarding their upcoming interviews on the forums or website, that’s great.
I was trying to give some insight to the fact that you are not missing out on much, and that most of the important news is on the forums.
I am sorry, this really isn’t the place for this conversation, but I can’t help but reply regarding the selling my information. There is absolutely nothing on facebook that I wouldn’t care if the whole world saw/knew. OK there are some pictures of me drunk at a party several years back. Crazy! Right? I guess I am just more relaxed regarding privacy than others? That or I have less to hide. I wish more services were like facebook and google, in which they provide an amazing service for no monetary cost, and all I have to do is agree to let them fire ads at me and sell my usage habits to corporations. I am not trying to be a sale person, that is just imo. I respect that some people, including yourselves, disagree with this entirely.
I also dislike social network sites and will never register to one. The game I played while waiting for gw2 was heavy on facebook and extremely low on forum. Gw2 doesn’t seems so bad though, a lot of the news are posted on forum/wiki. Any important notices should be written everywhere anyway(forum/wiki/facebook/etc), not just one of them. I don’t know what kind of news they’ve been posting on fb, but I hope it has been nothing major.
I’m only responsible for what I say, not for what you understand.
well, FB is where most ppl go to when there are problems. You should see how many posts they get when the server is unreachable. That is why they post there.. where the majority of players are.. simple..
Am I really the only one that sees updates on my log in screen?
edit: I have had GW2 on my interest list since beta- they never intrude and I have to click them to see what’s up- what is the problem exactly?
Oh wait: But I see it here first in any case – so again:
Why the complaint?
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