Uh... Just don't hire dickheads? That's pretty simple. Like I said earlier, pick members that are mature.
Most members who were TAs back in times were considered mature, still caused problems. Also the burnout rate in TA is nowhere close as in any other staff group, even GK/GM/ES - the job isn't fun, beginner tourneys suck ass an so on.
Still not my call whether to bring back TA or not, so these are just my thoughts. Of course it wouldn't hurt to try, but it requires having some top staff member interested in taking over the group - otherwise it'll turn to shit pretty fast.
If nobody steps up, or you can't find anyone, I'll do it. As much as I regularly open myself up to being made fun of, I'm actually a great leader and terrific organiser.
I still don't see maturity being an issue if the TAs are selected properly. I'm not talking about 'mature' 14yr olds here. Talking about people that have been around the block and people who aren't mean-spirited. Nice guys. People similar in character to Phail or Solax, for example. It's unimaginable that people like that would start bashing noobs.
On lessening burnouts, I'd suggest we focus less on beginner tourneys. Perhaps we could have members holding a tourney just once per week, on the weekends. As we sit in servers, we hype up the weekend events and get beginners excited about coming back to play again ("Wow PlayerName, you're kicking butt here in Judo, you should think about participating in the beginner Judo tournament on the weekends").
Server sitting is sort of what you make of it. If you're an introvert and you're not socialising with the players, then yeah, the job would suck and you probably wouldn't be suitable for it. If you're chatting with the new players though, cracking jokes and helping everyone get along, I don't think that'd be boring. Chuck on a podcast or a show in the background and you're golden.
If burnouts remain a problem, then we could experiment with some incentive systems. All we gotta do is make the carrots outweigh the sticks.
Definitely think it's worth and try and I definitely think that if handled properly, we'd see a reduction in the problems you cited.
I still don't see maturity being an issue if the TAs are selected properly. I'm not talking about 'mature' 14yr olds here. Talking about people that have been around the block and people who aren't mean-spirited. Nice guys. People similar in character to Phail or Solax, for example. It's unimaginable that people like that would start bashing noobs.
On lessening burnouts, I'd suggest we focus less on beginner tourneys. Perhaps we could have members holding a tourney just once per week, on the weekends. As we sit in servers, we hype up the weekend events and get beginners excited about coming back to play again ("Wow PlayerName, you're kicking butt here in Judo, you should think about participating in the beginner Judo tournament on the weekends").
Server sitting is sort of what you make of it. If you're an introvert and you're not socialising with the players, then yeah, the job would suck and you probably wouldn't be suitable for it. If you're chatting with the new players though, cracking jokes and helping everyone get along, I don't think that'd be boring. Chuck on a podcast or a show in the background and you're golden.
If burnouts remain a problem, then we could experiment with some incentive systems. All we gotta do is make the carrots outweigh the sticks.
Definitely think it's worth and try and I definitely think that if handled properly, we'd see a reduction in the problems you cited.
Last edited by Ele; Feb 9, 2017 at 02:08 AM.
Originally Posted by sir
Advertising. No sense spending money on advertising if retention rate is as low as it is now. May be worth trying when we don't have 60% of people closing the game after less than 1 minute of staying in it. Basically we first need to have stuff from the above implemented, then think about attracting new people with paid ads.
Just wanna address this. Advertisements doesn't have to be paid to be effective and I would argue that you could pull thousands of new players with like 20$ budget, of which some would probably spend their money on the game making it pay off and most likely even increase profit.
I feel for advertisement, you could get a well known youtube gamer to play toribash, the video will get views and enough people will be curious or funny enough to try out this game.
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Originally Posted by Stone
I feel for advertisement, you could get a well known youtube gamer to play toribash, the video will get views and enough people will be curious or funny enough to try out this game.
The point people have been making is, this has happened before, and a large influx of people do arrive, however it doesn't last as the people often only join and leave as soon as the youtuber does, all the while injecting that little bit more toxicity.
A program of retaining players must first be implemented before it is worth trying to get youtubers to feature the game and get the players in.
