2010-09-30, 07:39 AM
Eosian Wrote:This is why the vast majority of all fansites die.
No matter how awesome you think your site is, it's crap if no one ever visits and it takes traffic to bring more traffic.
You either tough out a period of obscurity until you can make a name for yourself, find your niche and prove you have some reason to go to your site instead of others. Very few sites get to start out with an embedded population the way SouthPerry did, and it's unrealistic for you to expect to be able to leverage the existing SP population for your own initial boom because as they've already said, most of them are either uninterested or already have other forums they can go to for game discussion, like here.
There's no compelling reason for the same population to exist in two places, and joining yours would be the route of more effort compared to just staying here. If I'd seen any sign a significant number of our population cared about Vindictus, or Mabinogi, I'd have given either/both a sub-forum of their own the way Pokemon has, but the interest just didn't seem to be there, that's why I agreed to the external link to you.
Most of the points people have made in this thread echo the same ones I already told you regarding survival and growth and I was up front with you then that I didn't think you'd last because you're expecting instant gratification. "If you build it they will come" only applies to novelties, not been there done thats.
Yeah, this is what I've been telling Erich, but he just replies with stupid comments like, "Are you even useful?" -.-