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Offline bustr

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Re: Home page love
« Reply #15 on: August 29, 2013, 02:05:00 AM »
More video type options if your friend based everything off the front page videos. How to do x, y, x videos. We don't read anymore as much as we watch and listen to video. Your friend keyed off the large "video by players" block because that's how he is oriented instead of valuing the top menu to find anything. So on the left use the "video by" concept to put in a stack of video options for help, training, etc. The top menu is relevant to the Internet generation from before You Tube and WEB Casts.

Many things like key mapping, controller and button mapping, scaling. Sound and VOX setup. The hanger options, load outs, convergence, gunsights and on and on.

Consider who really uses the forum and it's decade of the finest info for the game possible. You need to hook them at the door and feed them easy to get at, here is everything from a-z videos. Watching how to videos will make the game look a lot simpler than digging through text explanations with a few static pictures. Most young game players just want to look at someone doing it, then do it themselves. Gamers are visual kinesthetic learners. Let them watch it being done, then let them get their hands on it so they can own the process.

I'm meeting young people these days who don't know what RTFM means anymore. And get insulted when I explain what it means. There is a bit of an expectation now to have some kind of streaming media how to. Even Ikea has caught on.
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Re: Home page love
« Reply #16 on: August 29, 2013, 03:34:57 AM »
See rule #4
« Last Edit: August 29, 2013, 10:13:51 AM by hitech »
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Re: Home page love
« Reply #17 on: August 29, 2013, 07:39:09 AM »
Not to bash the young... Im still a baby at 34 but I ask younger adults two questions...

Do they know what the Dwey Desicmal System is for.

What was the last book they picked up... Paperback or ipad

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« Reply #18 on: August 29, 2013, 08:45:21 AM »
This one is on the front page at the moment and it is definitely my favorite video done so far.
Just something about it that makes me want to play..  :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLvWpIEOXFM

always liked this video, music is fantastic and the whole thing is well put together. Must have watched this 100 times :aok
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« Reply #19 on: August 29, 2013, 09:49:10 AM »
     I am thinking that if I had to be babied like this in 1990 on GEnie to play AW, that game would have
died a quick painful death.  I guess the guys back then didn't feel as entitled as they do now.  I do know
the general history knowledge was much more advanced.

     We have gotten to the point where we don't want to even have to try even a little effort to enjoy
ourselves?  How long will the babysitting need to be maintained in order to keep these guys playing?
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Offline Arlo

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« Reply #20 on: August 29, 2013, 10:04:17 AM »
Now it seems they require 'shock and awe' tactics and if they don't experience total sensory overload in the first six seconds of watching anything they are bored and move on.
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Re: Home page love
« Reply #21 on: August 29, 2013, 12:01:18 PM »
Not to bash the young... Im still a baby at 34 but I ask younger adults two questions...

Do they know what the Dwey Desicmal System is for.

What was the last book they picked up... Paperback or ipad

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lol, first thing you should do is figure out how to spell dewey decimal...then ask your questions.   :rofl   :neener:
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« Reply #22 on: August 29, 2013, 12:04:10 PM »
lol, first thing you should do is figure out how to spell dewey decimal...then ask your questions.   :rofl   :neener:

Typos are just as prevalent in the older gen as the younger gen (just for different reasons).

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« Reply #23 on: August 29, 2013, 12:08:49 PM »
Typos are just as prevalent in the older gen as the younger gen (just for different reasons).
ya but if us old guys are going to expect anything from the young, we need to at least appear to know what we're saying...
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Re: Home page love
« Reply #24 on: August 29, 2013, 12:09:26 PM »
    I am thinking that if I had to be babied like this in 1990 on GEnie to play AW, that game would have
died a quick painful death.  I guess the guys back then didn't feel as entitled as they do now.  I do know
the general history knowledge was much more advanced.

     We have gotten to the point where we don't want to even have to try even a little effort to enjoy
ourselves?  How long will the babysitting need to be maintained in order to keep these guys playing?

I don't see how it's being entitled or babysitting. It's simple marketing.  You don't show your worst item on the menu, you don't even show it.  You mention everything that you sell in it's upmost glory, to make people want to buy it.  Point of this topic is simply to refresh the home page. Add some screenshots and films on the front page to make it look nice. There are literally dozens upon dozens to choose from for screenshots or films. All they have to do is put it on their home page. Nothing entitled or babysitting required to do that, sir.   :salute   :cheers:

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« Reply #25 on: August 29, 2013, 12:15:57 PM »
The last significant update of the Home page was when I released my "Dolby's Tempest" Youtube Film in Feb 2011, that's 2 and a half years ago. :old:
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« Reply #26 on: August 29, 2013, 12:18:22 PM »
ya but if us old guys are going to expect anything from the young, we need to at least appear to know what we're saying...

I keep my expectations low. That way I can experience the delight of such being surpassed more oft.

Oh, look, Junior made a C- in history! Hey, he's wearing a belt today and his shoes are tied! He took out the trash and rinsed his plate before he loaded it in the dishwasher!

Before you know it he may work his way up to a full 30 seconds of concentration on the AHII website and true bonding may begin.

(No offense to the younger gen that actually have found, are enjoying and positively contribute to this game and community, currently. You are the individuals that keep hope alive for me.)

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« Reply #27 on: August 29, 2013, 02:29:43 PM »
that's the kind of thinking that got us where we are now Arlo...the "smart kids" aren't any smarter than the back of the classroom dipsticks of the 70s.

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« Reply #28 on: August 29, 2013, 02:40:26 PM »
that's the kind of thinking that got us where we are now Arlo...the "smart kids" aren't any smarter than the back of the classroom dipsticks of the 70s.

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Sure, blame it on me. It took me a long time to realize how stubborn Junior can be. Hope he lives to the age of enlightenment (and is living on his own before then).

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« Reply #29 on: August 29, 2013, 02:51:29 PM »
Sure, blame it on me. It took me a long time to realize how stubborn Junior can be. Hope he lives to the age of enlightenment (and is living on his own before then).
nah, i'm blaming the richie rich upper crust knob gobblers who sit around their big houses with their nannies and maids thinking up stupid ways to mess things up and then get some dipstick politician to agree with them. it will be so nice when the end comes...those knob gobblers will be among the first littering the gutters at the hands of all the low lifes they forced the rest of society to coddle.
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