| Author |
Message |
|
|
iatbm
Joined: 06 May 2006
Posts: 343
|
 Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 2:39 pm Post subject: Arcades ! |
 |
|
Are they any good for your forum. I installed arcades on my soccer forum and couple of people registered just to play hehe. I really don't care because maybe just maybe they will come forward and post at the end. I made new forum for those players to talk about arcades .... maybe that will get them going !
What is your experience or opinion on that issue ?
_________________
Soccer Forum
History Timelines |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
|
|
seo
Joined: 16 Mar 2006
Posts: 1999
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
iatbm
Joined: 06 May 2006
Posts: 343
|
| Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 10:29 pm Post subject: |
|
|
no it is my soccer forum hehe I am trying to kick off this one to make it big during world cup  ... members are already playning and I am sure I did good thing.
_________________
Soccer Forum
History Timelines |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
seo
Joined: 16 Mar 2006
Posts: 1999
|
| Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 10:47 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| iatbm wrote: | | no it is my soccer forum hehe I am trying to kick off this one to make it big during world cup ... members are already playning and I am sure I did good thing. |
Right, so I'm asking if it's essentially a forum game installed in your soccer forum?
_________________
Travel News Online College Degree |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
iatbm
Joined: 06 May 2006
Posts: 343
|
| Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 10:52 pm Post subject: |
|
|
It is not essentially but let them play the games, why not ? Maybe some registers to play games and eventually they post. No harm done
_________________
Soccer Forum
History Timelines |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
seo
Joined: 16 Mar 2006
Posts: 1999
|
| Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 11:10 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Well, let us know how it goes. I have a mixed feeling about it personally.
_________________
Travel News Online College Degree |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
htmlmaster
Joined: 07 May 2006
Posts: 164
|
| Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 11:19 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Maybe I'm going insane, but I thought for sure I already posted in something like this. Anyway, I think that arcade games are fairly useless for all but gaming forums. I find that devoted members (in a non-game related forum) don't like games and the members that play only games are not devoted members.
_________________
www.nerdcouncil.com - Forums are finally done!!! |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Ant
Joined: 29 May 2006
Posts: 73
Location: Christchurch, Dorset, UK
|
| Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 3:09 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I think they can help, you do get people just playing and not posting but as long as you can cope with that (bandwidth issues) then there isn't much of a downside. Anything that encourages users to return can't be a bad thing!
Ant
_________________
Just a Face? - What does yours tell the world? - www.justaface.com |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Camron
Joined: 14 Jul 2006
Posts: 110
|
| Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 5:12 am Post subject: |
|
|
Arcades are great marketting for websites, I have seen many of them and some arcades make thousands per month. I saw this article on www.gamescript.net I believe, you should check it out sometime  |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
seo
Joined: 16 Mar 2006
Posts: 1999
|
| Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 5:48 am Post subject: |
|
|
I'm not a gamer, so I can't speak from experience, but quite a few sites including forums offer games, and some sites and forums are doing very successfully. Some forums get an enormous number of posts, and I have no idea how they manage to handle that kind of super heavy traffic.
_________________
Travel News Online College Degree |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
lordmenace
Joined: 14 Aug 2006
Posts: 16
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
htmlmaster
Joined: 07 May 2006
Posts: 164
|
| Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 10:50 pm Post subject: |
|
|
They're only useful on gaming forums. A good trick is to use a points system. Either members pay x points per month to have unlimited access to the arcade or they pay y points per game.
_________________
www.nerdcouncil.com - Forums are finally done!!! |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
jimbo
Joined: 07 Jul 2006
Posts: 58
|
| Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 12:12 pm Post subject: |
|
|
They help make the site more 'sticky'. I have also found the arcade hel pwith registrations as existing users tell there friends etc about it, most of these will post on the forums eventually
_________________
PooQ - www.pooq.co.uk
Discussion. Music. Sports.
Come and chat with like minded people |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
retsop
Joined: 25 Jun 2006
Posts: 140
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
seo
Joined: 16 Mar 2006
Posts: 1999
|
| Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 11:56 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| retsop wrote: | ... but for a webmaster forum ?
Regards |
I've seen forums that host many forum games to create fun and entertaining atmosphere. What's kind of interesting is that few successful webmaster forums host forum games. Maybe webmasters aren't interested? Maybe (forum) games are not good fit to webmaster forums?
_________________
Travel News Online College Degree |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
