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F!S Anon Meme (the Seventh, and now on DW!)

Secrets, rants, opinions, anything you want to say about your fandom or a fandom or fandom in general, do it here! Anonymously, of course. Get it all off your chest.

Some ground rules:
1. Going anon is encouraged but not absolutely required (for those who struggle with captchas and stuff).
2. No autoplaying/autolooping embeds, or embeds that cover/stretch the screen.
3. No dropping personal info or IRL contact info, etc.

That's about it, though!

I'll be linking some general/general-fandom threads I see so people don't repost new threads with the same stuff.

Unpopular Ships
Obligatory Masturbation Thread
Fandoms you wish existed
How old are you?
What series have you always meant to watch/read/play/etc. but have never?
Time and location
Female-centric works
How do you feel about Tumblr?
Pet thread
Guilty pleasure thread
Favorite old shows
First fandom?

Comments

Better Than Pottermore!

[(Anonymous)]

So I read the recent secret about Pottermore disappointment with great interest. I'm on it, but it's really frustrating--there are only so many times that I can duel another house or read inane comments from RPing newbies. I'm pretty disappointed in "The Night Circus" interactive game, too, for much the same reasons: there's no definitive way to advance or "win" the game, and I keep getting the same cards again and again, but nothing changes because I don't have the level or goodies to do anything with them.

So, anyway, here's my question, FS: how would you go about making an interactive game for your favorite fandom (book/show/movie/comic/manga/etc.)?

Re: Better Than Pottermore!

[(Anonymous)]

it would be hard

you would need to send some very internet/fandom-savvy and go do surveys or quietly lurk forums, communities and such to find out what people are interested in

not only that, but a big problem with pottermore is that they underestimated how much server power they would need

you would probably need to hire someone who is good at calculating costs, resources and stuff

you would need to figure out a way to finance it, because let's face, convincing fans to throw money at you is not that easy

and on top of that, find out what is truly feasible and what is just a pipe-dream

and then find a way to mix together all that into something that doesn't leave you broke and that still pleases the fans

so yeah, it's much more money involved than what anyone would think or want; and you'd need to delegate and trust professionals to do a lot of things for you, and ceding control like that to people you don't even know can be very scary, especially control over something you created yourself