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Penny Lane

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ARGN is great at what it does, which is presenting game news. Launches, wrap-ups, community information.

A newsletter would serve a different function- one that would hopefully support and enhance what ARGN does. Weekly game updates would focus not on news but on activity- on what's happening right now. I don't think ARGN does this, and I don't think it should. I think it would dilute what they do well- their awesome news coverage

Maybe I characterized it the wrong way by calling it a newsletter. That was probably the wrong word to use. What I'm talking about is not news about ARGs- it's an activity update. It would essentially be a condensed version of what's in the threads, with a focus on what has happened in the last week, instead of the story so far- except that it would also provide links to the story so far, for people who are just getting started.

Think of it as a player's handbook. Unless we make ARGs more accessible to newbies- and this would do that- it's going to be much harder to get money flowing around the community in general.

**Posted:** Tue Aug 03, 2010 5:44 pm

Pixiestix

again, that's what we have been encouraging in Wikis, and have been asking the player base to do {and sometimes they do, and sometimes they don't}. Dunno

**Posted:** Thu Aug 05, 2010 2:36 pm

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Broklynite · Entrenched Joined: 11 Apr 2009 Posts: 784

What about putting out a call for a makerbot or some other form of 3D printing? Someone probably has one or knows someone who does. If you did limited runs of a few items for some of the ARGs, you probably could make a few bucks easily. Naturally, you would have to be careful about IP, but there are many ways around that. Reall,y the problem would be getting your hands on/access to a 3D printer.

I don't know what the finances are like, but they sound fairly dire, so I guess you wouldn't be able to just buy one yourselves. And of course, who would have the thing in their possesion, take care of mailing things out, etc. etc. But these are secondary problems. The main is really how to get access to the printer.

**Posted:** Thu Aug 05, 2010 2:47 pm

rose · ...and then Magic happens Joined: 26 Nov 2003 Posts: 4117

An idea you may or may not like...as it may reward games where players have or can raise money.

What about allowing people to pay for the promotion of a game to a subforum? That would only work if there was sufficient interest in a game to justify it, the interest has to be there...but right now I am following two news and rumors threads that are just getting longer and harder to follow and I would gladly kick in a few bucks to promote them to their own forum. Heck I might even pay something to have more than a little thread in timewasters for my charades thing, although that is linear so it works just fine.

As I said, I don't know how hard creating subforums are, and I don't know how many games can be promoted...I just wonder if there is a way to get people to kick in some cash to promote the games they play.

I'm not suggesting holding a popular game hostage and not giving it a forum..

oh I don't know, I just think their might be a way to get people to kick in for a game they are playing in a way they may not be willing to support the entire forum...particularly new people.

Could this be more trouble than it is worth?

**Posted:** Fri Aug 06, 2010 9:57 am

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rose · ...and then Magic happens Joined: 26 Nov 2003 Posts: 4117

Finding the pirate gold for uF

**Posted:** Mon Aug 09, 2010 9:19 pm

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Crescent · Decorated Joined: 05 May 2006 Posts: 281

i think uf money being raised would be great!!!
i'm in - but nowhere near nyc - will help out though

**Posted:** Tue Aug 10, 2010 10:38 pm

natas

I was just curious as to if any of the aforementioned ideas are on their way to implementation and/or where UF stands as far as meeting their budget needs this year. There hasn't been a reply in a while so I don't know if more attention needs to be brought forth or what needs to be done.

Apologies if it has been mentioned before but has anyone thought of creating an ARG that could generate income where the proceeds went to UF? I would be interested in brainstorming this idea.

**Posted:** Mon Apr 04, 2011 6:02 pm

SpaceBass

**Posted:** Mon Apr 18, 2011 12:19 pm

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Crisssy101 · Boot Joined: 31 Mar 2011 Posts: 28

Ideas

**Posted:** Sat May 07, 2011 10:02 am

lego606

UnForum baking competition!

**Posted:** Mon Aug 01, 2011 4:34 pm

Mar de Grises · Greenhorn Joined: 30 Jul 2014 Posts: 8

No money in ARGs. That is unless you work for the government. XD

You should hire the remaining members of the uF to work on Kremlin spam farms and then take 15% of their income earned as commission. That's like a market of 20 million dollars now in Russia now dying to have English-speaking people. Wink

**Posted:** Thu Aug 07, 2014 3:01 am

Pixiestix

Don't rez threads, especially don't rez threads just to be a smart ass.

**Posted:** Thu Aug 07, 2014 9:44 am

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