Cheena wrote:I don't know and I don't agree either with that tolerance zero, despite the fact Meow and Carver explained it already.
When I was a moderator on [raiseyouralienonline] we had no problem with people talking about [adoptyourblondgirlonline] or [raiseyoursheeponline] because we perfectly knew that our game had its great points that kept people in WHILE playing others for their own stuff.
BUT.
I can explain it again if it helps. Like many new business ventures, right now Salem is not profitable and until the game is finished enough that we can advertise, it's likely to continue to cost us much more than it returns. We're not even doing this for future profit, but for love of Salem and desire to see it become a unique and fun game that WE want to play. Right now we have a very small player base of beta testers that we can't afford to try to expand, not while the game is so incomplete. We need all of you to stick around and keep playing Salem. Some of you will leave because you don't like where the game is going and that can't be helped. Might we run low on good beta testers before the game is released? I hope not, but who can say?
What can be helped is to not allow people to come in and advertise other games and tell people to come play those games instead of Salem. Of course, we've agreed to go so far as to let you discuss other games here as long as you don't try to solicit each other to go play said other games, and of course we can't stop you from doing so in PMs, but PMs are a lot less influential to the readership in general than seeing someone like Dallane say "Oh yeah, I love that new game, I'm going to go play it right now, who wants to come with me?". Moving such a thing to Hinnom still leaves it out there to be read, so I tend to delete, much as I hate doing so.
If Salem were a well-established, reasonably complete game that was actually turning a profit, it wouldn't be such an issue. We could afford to be lenient and allow the occasional solicitation of another game here. We wouldn't care so much if people hare off to some new fad game because we would know that they will probably come back and if they don't, we can afford to lose a few. But right now, we can't afford to lose you. And I wouldn't rely on 'nostalgia' right now in a game that is changing every month so that anyone who leaves and comes back will find things so changed they might just leave again before they even try to play and find out if they like the new systems.
Will preventing advertisement of other games really prevent you from playing those other games if you want to? Of course not. But it's a psychological thing. The more you see something, the more you think about it. And the more you think about it, the more likely you are to try it. So, we just don't want you to see people saying "play this other game" all the time on OUR forums. Of course, by that logic, we shouldn't allow any discussion about other games at all, but we're trying to be reasonable and nice about the subject.
Cheena wrote:Dallane wrote:Are we allowed to talk about traditional games? Such as magic the gathering or warmachine?
No. Orcling got banned for talking about MarioKart64.
Like I've said a few times, you can talk about any games you want, just day say things like "Let's go play that game instead!". Saying Orcling got banned for talking about MarioKart64 isn't quite accurate. When this topic was discussed here last time, I tried to make it clear that advertising simply isn't allowed, so he posted an advertisement for that game just to be a snot and got banned.