Hi everybody,
Thought I'd give you an update on what's happening in Community nowadays, and how things work right now.
The team
First of all, I am now the one person on the Funcom Community Team. That means my e-mail (in my signature) is the one to use for any contact with Community. And you can blame me for all things that go wrong. Hopefully that won't be too much.
Another change is that I have moved to sit with the designers (yay! ). I'm right next to our Game Director (Gaute) and Lead Designer (Johan). This should improve both the dev team's access to the information Community gathers from you, the players, as well as the information I'm able to give you in return. Note that I give the former - information from you to the designers - highest priority, so if I can't cover both, you know what I focus on.
Bulletin board
I now have moderators to help me on the bulletin board. They are moderators only, and will not be posting. We do not take applications for a moderator position. If you have any questions about moderation or the social guidelines, please contact me.
I hope to be able to start up the Community Answers threads again, but this depends on how much time I get for it. I'll keep you updated on this. I also hope to be able to give you an update like this each week, to let you know what's happening on my end.
IRC
The IRC is handled by a group of selected volunteers, as was first intended, and I drop by when I feel like chatting, have important information (patch days is an example), or just want to be available. Other Funcom employees also visit, so it's a nice place for getting to know some of us better. Just don't expect us to answer too many questions on the fly there.
AO sites
I'm in touch with most of our major sites on a more or less regular basis. This is largely controlled by what I have to share, like screenshots, leaks, beta test accounts, etc. For this, I focus on sites covering AO news. If you have an AO site, make sure to let us know, so we can add it to the listing on our main site.
The Notum Wars
The booster is closing in on release, and I help out a bit with that too. Testing, player impressions of the booster, and bulletin board forums for the beta are among my tasks here, and has very high priority right now.
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Hm, that's what I could think of for now. Feel free to add your comments and questions here, but keep it to the topic, please.