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feressa · 08-22-2003, 05:00 PM

As many of you probably know, Sony is beta-testing LDoN 'raid' content right now (that's, uh, under 6 weeks before release, but oh well). What's interesting is the number of people in my guild who have ended up in this test, when you take into account that there are probably around 400,000 active EQ accounts right now...

Obviously they're doing some sort of active selection, but I have to wonder how much this is driven by marketing: get a few people from a big guild, give them all the Time gear they've dreamed of (we're in farm-mode in Time like many other guilds, but that still means it will take a long time for everyone to get the stuff they want), then encourage them to go back and market your product to the rest of the guild. As far as cheesy forms of marketing go, this must take the biscuit, heh.

And for the record: no, being able to add +6 disease resist to my favourite Time item DOESN'T give me a big hard-on... Being able to add Conservation of Xegnoy to any of my items would, but from what I've heard that goes beyond what LDoN offers. But I suppose Sony still has problems realising that there are lots of players who know how the game works.

08-22-2003, 05:00 PM	#1 (permalink)
feressa Registered User Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 70 -1 Internets	LDoN beta marketing As many of you probably know, Sony is beta-testing LDoN 'raid' content right now (that's, uh, under 6 weeks before release, but oh well). What's interesting is the number of people in my guild who have ended up in this test, when you take into account that there are probably around 400,000 active EQ accounts right now... Obviously they're doing some sort of active selection, but I have to wonder how much this is driven by marketing: get a few people from a big guild, give them all the Time gear they've dreamed of (we're in farm-mode in Time like many other guilds, but that still means it will take a long time for everyone to get the stuff they want), then encourage them to go back and market your product to the rest of the guild. As far as cheesy forms of marketing go, this must take the biscuit, heh. And for the record: no, being able to add +6 disease resist to my favourite Time item DOESN'T give me a big hard-on... Being able to add Conservation of Xegnoy to any of my items would, but from what I've heard that goes beyond what LDoN offers. But I suppose Sony still has problems realising that there are lots of players who know how the game works.