In his latest article, community columnist Sean Bulger looks at “The Site Beyond the Game”. This community management focused column looks at official sites, how different games do it and what else is out there.

Every game has an official site for various reasons. The official site of a game is either an important hub of information and activity or it is simply a marketing page trying to draw players in. Or sometimes it is both, like how Sony Online Entertainment sets up their websites - the main page being a flash page used to draw players in, while also retaining forums and the Players websites.

Read it all after the leap.

WarCry and Turbine will hold a developer chat tonight, for fans of the Tolkien inspired MMORPG. Fans can crowd into our IRC channels tonight and talk get their questions answered in real time by Executive Producer Jeffrey Steefel and others. The chat kicks off at 8:00pm Eastern (5:00pm Pacific). Here are the connection details:

When: 01/23/2008 8pm EST

Where: irc.chatspike.net 6667 in #WarCouncil
General chat will be available in #warcry

Who: The following Turbine developers will be on hand.

• Jeffrey Steefel (Executive Producer)
• Brent Schmidt (Content Lead)
• More to be announced…

Need a way in? No problem just use our Java Client or Chatspike’s IRC Client

We look forward to seeing you there!

Chat log now available, click on to see what juicy questions were answered.

There is a very interesting discussion going on over on the Guild Relations board yesterday morning while the servers are down - it spawned from a post that was a little off-topic for the forum itself, but turned into a very informational thread on the topic of Protecting your Guild’s RaidID from Hijack.
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