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Does Aion have a US community manager?
I notice the european community manager posts quite a bit in here. However, the U.S. community manager is rarely (if ever) seen on here. Is there a community manager for the U.S. A lot of us over here are very interested in the game, yet, it feels like the U.S. market does not even matter.
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Oh yeah, there is ^^
His name is kieron, worked previously as CM in EVE online, he is probably the one sending stuff to this site (artworks, news, etc).
I always thought Ephimero was our community manager :P
(sorry Ayase, we still love you
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There's a lot more to being a Community Coordinator than writing on the forums, but I have to agree that Ephimero seems to be doing a great job in feeding information here.
Worth noting is that kieron (who, as mentioned, is our NA Community Manager for Aion) also runs a Dev-blog on our official US site.
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Personally, I would hire someone like Ephimero to be Community Coordinator if I were in charge of Aion.
hey hey
*blushes*
Ah, ok. I still find it interesting that the European community manager responds sticking up for the U.S. community manager
So far, this is the MMO I am most looking forward too. It has a solid mix of features that I really like. Also, being under a lighter NDA speaks volumes about the game. The fact that beta testers are happy with it (taking into account various tweaking that will happen until release).
My biggest fear though is that Aion will remain under the radar until just before release. Most American MMO players still have the preconcieved notion 'it's just another Korean grinder'. Also, while youtube and all that is great for word of mouth marketting, the average 'Joe' will not go out of their way to find out this information. However, if the game has more of a marketing presence, and makes it a point to mention questing, wings, fortresses, you can choose not to grind, etc. then that might go a long way towards fixing these preconcieved notions.
It will be great once Aion is out of the 'hardcore mmo gamer' mindset. None of my friends (all gamers) have any idea Aion even exists. When I do try to enlighten them and mention it's from Korea they immediately say 'grinder'.
I still find it interesting that the European community manager responds sticking up for the U.S. community manager
We should not expect that every community manager of a game is monitoring every single site together, every cm is checking the very same site and respond if they were called.
We should not expect that the european cm will alert the american one in these cases, to register, be familiar with the community of a specific, previously not visited site just so we can get the very same answer the european one can give to us.
Usually, things dont work that way - especially not before the actual start of the ad works.
(ofc that doesnt rule out the possibilty that the american cm is here aswell, but it doesnt really matter whos gonna answer if the answer would be the very same.)
Every cm has his own stuff to do, every cm is monitoring different sites (to cover as much areas as they can), and every cm represents each other under the same company.
These guys have a lot of things to do beside reading forums we just cant expect that every single one of them is everywhere. This applies not just for Aion CMs, but cms of every game.
Theres nothing personal in these lines, its not really a response to your quoted sentence, just ive felt we should be reminded how hard is to be a cm and how things really works in these cases.
I didn't realize that 3rd party sites needed one. If AION is going to have official forums then I don't really think this forum would matter at all except for rare PR crap.
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Well my question was answered
There is a community manager for the U.S. Some community managers are more active in 3rd party forums than others (or they have split the forums between them). Which makes sense.
I can't wait for the game to release (well I can wait along enough for it be polished). Aion is pretty close to what I have envisioned as the MMO I would love to create
Hi Ulrick,
Yes, the US community does have a manager, that would be me. I didn't have the opportunity to make contact with the staff here on MMORPG.com until today. My account has been properly flagged and here I am as a result. Expect to see a lot of interaction between the Aion community and myself.
Efforts to bring Aion into the US community's awareness are stepping up. More details are forthcoming SOON so I can't go into details, but Penny Arcade Expo is the place to be this summer if you are interested in Aion.
Cheers,
kieron
Community Relations Manager - Aion
NCsoft Austin
Hi Ulrick,
Yes, the US community does have a manager, that would be me. I didn't have the opportunity to make contact with the staff here on MMORPG.com until today. My account has been properly flagged and here I am as a result. Expect to see a lot of interaction between the Aion community and myself.
Efforts to bring Aion into the US community's awareness are stepping up. More details are forthcoming SOON™ so I can't go into details, but Penny Arcade Expo is the place to be this summer if you are interested in Aion.
Cheers,
I thank OP and the rest of this thread for producing this result!
Awesome!!!
Do we realy want the masses though games can be successful without WOW number's if high numbers means asshat immature playerbase then i would rather have a 500k-1m core mature fun to be around player's.
Use these boards as a example Aion is quiet but friendly mature and informative go to WOW AOC WAR and its a childish flamefest and F off noob in every other post.
This man speaks the truth.
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I need to agree that Ephimero is a great asset for the Community, i really thought he is some kind of NCsoft employee
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I need to agree that Ephimero is a great asset for the Community, i really thought he is some kind of NCsoft employee
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yes but he is european and belongs to us so take your hands off of him or...
Yeah good thing since im german anyway
Do we realy want the masses though games can be successful without WOW number's if high numbers means asshat immature playerbase then i would rather have a 500k-1m core mature fun to be around player's.
Use these boards as a example Aion is quiet but friendly mature and informative go to WOW AOC WAR and its a childish flamefest and F off noob in every other post.
in short yes
long version, definatly everyone will agree (that got a selfsustaining mind and doesnt just say what others say) that it got some drawbacks, BUT, if aion would go over 1m or even 2mill players it would give other non standard mmorpgs (like aion is to a certain extend) more initiative and effectively funding to try and see if it might work and if they could also make a hit. So for the mmorpg market it would be a good thing . Also think that with high subscriber numbers it would get noticed easier so we would have a constant stream of new people to compensate people leaving for whatever reasons they might have so population levels on all servers would remain fairly stable and it might even keep rising (if the quality of the gameplay is high enough to statisfy the players and keep them entertained)
To add to what i already wrote, IF aion would be a commercial succes and keep the high subscription numbers up it would also result in more cash flowing to nc korea (the compagny it will most likely end up after it goes thru management etc) who in turn would use it to make better/bigger expansions/updates for aion which ofcourse would well benefit the entire playerbase as a whole
The increased revenue it could give them (after making up for the millions spend in developing aion) could also give them some extra cash to give other non standard games a shot and some decent development (think of what Tabula Rasa could've been if it was more polished and more balanced as it was at the end of OB for example (if you liked it than, i would suggest to check back cause from what i hear a fair bit has been changed and a load of content was added and still is being added))
anyways just something to think about when ya say high subscription numbers are a bad thing
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