Jul 29 2009
Game Size - Large Number of Players
Warning, your clan is small for its level!
This is a statement that appears in Viking Clan suggesting that the only way to play the game is to continue to add people to your clan. Not every game player in Facebook and MySpace is in agreement with this concept. Even though both platforms are indeed social networks, there are lots of people that don’t feel comfortable just adding perfect strangers to get additional players to play the game.
Some games like Castle Age, Star Age and Farmville want you to post a message in your profile when you make significant achievements (in their eyes). Personally, I just cancel these requests in the name of reducing clutter on everyones’ news feed. This isn’t really necessary but the developers feel the need to advertise this way. I would encourage every developer to just work on making your game better and players will be attracted to it. Word of mouth will make this happen.
So there is a challenge here for game developers. Find better ways to make the game playable at all levels—10 players or 501 players. Cut down on unnecessary feeds to avoid cluttering others’ news feeds and potentially reducing the annoyance that these feeds provide.
