Six Questions with Aimee Rekoske
Thursday, January 28th, 2010
In my efforts to bring interesting insight to Epic Slant I’ve sent out open ended questions to the industry members I’m familiar with. The response has been pretty good so far and I am pleased to bring you another set of answers. This week we’re going to look at MMOs from the point of view of a community relations manager (one of my favorite types of people)! Aimee Rekoske from SOE was kind enough to send responses in. She offers her perspective on player organizations and MMO communities in general! (more…)
EverQuest 2 does Guild Management Right
Monday, September 28th, 2009At Dragon*Con I had the opportunity to spend some time with Ashlanne, Brenlo and several members of the SOE community staff. Not only were they super kind to me, they also reminded me just how much I love SOE games (well, mostly just EverQuests). Upon my return I fired up my PC, purchased the “all in one” EQ2 package and renewed my subscription post haste (Companies still seem to undervalue how much awesome community staffers affect players). I’m still collecting my thoughts on the game and new content but I wanted to discuss just how great the guild management tools are.
I still remember the day that SOE rolled out the new guild management system to EverQuest 2. The system prior to that was (more…)
Reflections on Dragon*Con
Monday, September 7th, 2009
There is always something refreshing about hanging out with a lot of people who like the same things you do. So, to say I had a great time at Dragon*Con would be an understatement! I had the opportunity to meet with both MMO players and industry folks and that is never a bad thing. Despite our little Con in Atlanta not being one of the big “MMO Cons,” we still received some very interesting information! I want to share with you what was shared with me and then thank some of the wonderful people I met.
Lord of the Rings Online
The LotRO panel was given by Shawn Schuster of Massively and (more…)
