I’m only making this point because I talk to enough studios who aren’t willing to invest in their community management – and that scares me. Sure, the big studios do it, sure some small games achieve a good social following, but we’re right now trying to answer the generalized question for everyone - should you invest in your community management? (more…)
I’ve really enjoyed SimCity despite some of the features many would note as negative. The franchise is taking a serious new push into a heavily stylized system optimization kind of city builder which I don’t think is a bad move. While some of their operations and implementations of strategies have been poorly done, I was really impressed by a new initiative they have recently started – community engagement. (more…)