widgets are awful and worthless bits of code. all they do is recruit more myspace ******s who like ****ty music. the new forum layout is bad too, and basically every feature on the main page is terrible. the game is as fun as it can be with the limits set, but overall ffr is pretty ****ty right now.
some of the things that are pretty ignorant, such as "every feature on the main page is terrible, but i was in a rush and bad mood. not that that excuses what i said, but it was a factor. i'm not dumb, i know FFR is business and more viewers equals more money, and myspace is a great place to recruit users. ok, that's great i guess, more people playing the game. but is myspace really the best place to go to recruit users? how many sexually frustrated teenagers does one site need? frankly, the pool or users who would make good regulars is rather dry.
i know plenty of people who frequent myspace, and a few of them have actually commented on the ffr widgets to me. however, none of the people i know to view any of the widget band's myspace pages would be good members of FFR. they would probably register, play the game a bit, and maybe add a little information to their profiles. they wouldn't click the ads, they wouldn't post on the forum and they surely wouldn't subscribe. sure they add to your hit-count, but the effect is so minimal it's almost worthless. what i'm getting at is that from what i've seen, the majority of myspace users would add nothing to the ffr community and provide almost no additional revenue.
ffr is largely (i'd say nearly completely) community based. users who don't add to the community are worthless to me, which led me to the first two sentences of the above post. also adding to the two sentences is my dislike of the music (sksk etc.), files and look. i'm aware that the files are easy for a reason. i'm pretty sure the majority of you admins and at least some of the regulars dislike the myspace rock bands. jasonkey, you call the myspace bands "bigger and better", and sure, scary kids scaring kids is much "bigger" then DM Ashura, in the sense that they have a larger fan base. but better? better for what? listening? better for using to recruit their fans as members? or better for implementing into the game? which i assure you their music is not. is the quality of the game more important then the quantity of members? to you it is the members, but you should take some time to consider what is best for the game, and by some i mean more then you are as of now. almost anyone who plays stepmania can tell you that a scary kids scaring kids song is not exactly a prime song for a rhythm game, not to mention the fact that the file added will be of an extremely easy difficulty. note that my bias against the music is not the reason i say this, i'd be the first to tell you that no lil wayne song would make for a good stepfile.
about the forum layout, i don't like it but it isn't terrible. it is what it is, so whatever. what i meant by "the game is as fun as it can be with the limits set" was nothing bad. ffr is fun, has appealing graphics, speedmods are awesome, and there are a lot of great songs and files in the game.
so i ask you synth/tass/ld, does quality really deserve to take a back seat to quantity? is myspace really the best place to use as your main recruiting source? since the first widget realase has there been a substantial increase in the rate of new member registration? increase in revenue?
now. if i still seem to be off the mark, if i still seem to not understand, could you please take the time to explain? if you read this, thanks, i know it's long tl;dr etc..
tl;dr - explanation of the top post/expansion on it. jumps around a bit because i was going back into paragraphs and adding stuff, my class just ended so i dont have time to re-read it all and make it flow. sorry. go back and read it.
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