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Weezel · Last revised: 6:49pm GMT-4

We need your help! (draft)

**Posted:** Thu Mar 20, 2008 5:52 pm

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Weezel

Updated. Bump (since editing it doesn't mark it as new).

**Posted:** Thu Mar 20, 2008 6:53 pm

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FlatCat · Boot Joined: 05 Mar 2008 Posts: 23

Love the idea

**Posted:** Thu Mar 20, 2008 7:31 pm

FMG

The spanish translation a bit more polished...

**Posted:** Thu Mar 20, 2008 8:05 pm

AUZ505

My two cents

For me it would be too long to read (to be honest I have even now not read everything Smile

). Also it sounds like an advertisment, so that I fear many people will already stop at the first sentences.

I think we do not need to explain too much. Do you remember when you stumbled over your first ARG. It was different, mysterious and interesting.

This is what I have written in a Belgium forum (it needs of course some polishing)

**Posted:** Thu Mar 20, 2008 8:09 pm

Weezel

**Posted:** Thu Mar 20, 2008 8:50 pm

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**Posted:** Thu Mar 20, 2008 8:53 pm

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AUZ505

I guess it depends on the receiver.

One more general comment:
ARGs useally do not advertise like other games and the "this is not a game" design is very important. So even my post was not following those rules.

Here a quote from wikipedia:

- Rather than openly promoting the game and trying to attract participation by "pushing" it toward potential players, the designers attempted to "pull" players to the story

I guess that this is not necessarily true for FTLR, but I still like the idea of "pulling" people

**Posted:** Thu Mar 20, 2008 9:15 pm

jasper · Unfettered Joined: 12 Mar 2008 Posts: 560 Location: Texas

just for grins, here's a response I got from someone I was trying to pull in this week: "Tell your mate if they want my help to tell me what eggsackgetdeli they want me to do cos that website was a load of drivelous crap that made as much sense as a (and here she typed something inappropriate)"

I do agree with the idea of blogging and posting about it outside of the game and I think pulling people in is going to be very important, so I keep trying.

**Posted:** Thu Mar 20, 2008 9:59 pm

Lysithea

Re: We need your help! (draft)

**Posted:** Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:36 pm

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Weezel

So should I just bail on the idea then?

**Posted:** Thu Mar 20, 2008 11:38 pm

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L'el · Boot Joined: 16 Mar 2008 Posts: 25 Location: USA

can't hurt

**Posted:** Thu Mar 20, 2008 11:54 pm

Lysithea

I really like the idea of translating an introductory message into different languages.

My personal opinion is that the most effective intro message is one that makes people think "hmm, that's intruiging, I want to find out more".
If people see the intro and post "that looks interesting, can you tell me more about it?" or "what is the lost ring anyway?" or "that seems like a really weird way to advertise the olympics". Then you can be prepared with a follow up message that is very similar to what you have already written.

**Posted:** Fri Mar 21, 2008 12:04 am

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Elizabeth123 · Decorated Joined: 15 Mar 2008 Posts: 285

Re: We need your help! (draft)

**Posted:** Fri Mar 21, 2008 8:10 am

aliendial

I love that, ELizabeth.

**Posted:** Fri Mar 21, 2008 8:13 am

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