| fkusumot said: The big draw for the site is the numbers, not the community. The ratio of members to lurkers is usually 20/80 or around there. The question is why aren't all the lurkers joining. I predict that measures to improve the community, i.e. post quality and the level of discussion, would improve lurker attach rate. |
I agree, I think many lurkers are put off by the level of the discussion here.
High quantity - low quality means lower quantity (and even lower quality) in the long term.
We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that they [developers] want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so the question is what do you do for the rest of the nine and half years? It's a learning process. - SCEI president Kaz Hirai
It's a virus where you buy it and you play it with your friends and they're like, "Oh my God that's so cool, I'm gonna go buy it." So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they've showed it to someone else who then go out and buy it and so on. Everyone I know bought one and nobody turns it on. - Epic Games president Mike Capps
We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games. - Activision CEO Bobby Kotick
