Hi Phil, I take your point, but I think you are a little behind the times. Sadly Hershey Pennsylvania isn't the chocolate capital of the world any more, and a lot of Hershey's chocolates are now produced over seas due to cheaper labor costs and the usual out sourcing we are seeing in every kind of industry. I guess you missed the big news story a couple of years back when Hershey laid off something like 5,000 employees because the company wanted to move over seas to higher foreign labor. However, that's a discussion for another time. :D
The reason forums have been slowly replacing mailing lists is as I said. Companies like Microsoft, Electronic Arts, Nintendo, or any other good sized business has thousands of people signed up to their forums each day. its easier to manage thousands of customers on a forum than it is to deal with a mailing list where there is at least a thousand messages coming into your e-mail inbox each day. That's just too much traffic for e-mail to handle so forums have been growing in popularity and are becoming a standard business model for communicating with your customers. I guess where I am coming from is I want to get more serious with USA Games and am looking to redesign the site and adopt a more professional business model for my games and services. I've realized when it comes to games like MOTA I've really failed the community and customers at large because I'm not working on a fixed schedule. I've been developing the game on a when and if I have the time type schedule. Obviously it isn't working because it is taking years to complete a project that should have taken me a year tops. So if I adopt a more pro business model I'm going to have to setup regular hours even if it is just two hours a day until games like MOTA and Raceway are done. Cheers! On 12/20/11, Phil Vlasak <p...@pcsgames.net> wrote: > Hi Dark, > Yeah asking a mailing list if they like mailing lists is like asking someone > in Hershey Pennsylvania if they like chocolate. > Note that is a town that smells of chocolate all the time as they > manufacture tons of it. > I now know why forums are getting more popular for as Thomas said if you > have 10,000 people in a mailing list you would get about 1,000 messages a > day but you could have that many people on a forum. > Phil > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
