I always keep a track of the games I play during a year for my blogs, and I recently put out one about the games I played in the first four months. It turns out they were all games I'd already played before, either replaying them, or playing mods/DLC!
I do play games regularly, anyhow. I don't think a day goes by that I don't, even if it is sometimes just a daily dose of playing YuGiOh online. Some games are really big time investments, whereas others are not. I think that as people grow older, they appreciate games that do a lot in little time more than games that do little for a lot of time.
According to my blog I've played about 16 games in the first four months. Not too much or too little, I guess. The game I'm currently playing is Bugsnax, the undisputed Game Of The Year of all years, which I'm enjoying quite a lot.
I'm pretty sure that the amount of people who join a Discord relative to the amount of people interested in a project is pretty small, though they are bound to be some of the more dedicated fans of a work I suppose. Enough to spend money on Patreon, at least!
We do actually use the emoticons you made for AF:C as the server emotes in the AF server I am in! So in a way, you already did make Discord emotes!
Your Discord is pretty barren these days, there was a time I tried to be active there, but it kinda felt like I was the only one starting conversations, and I wonder whether that just seemed overbearing or something... Anyway, when I decided to shut up for a month the amount of posts went down by like 90% or something, maybe.
I think it's just because people there aren't really interested in forming a community, just your projects, which they can talk about here instead, so what is there to say? I could share screenshots of games I'm playing or make dumb AF-related jokes, but
I think you'd probably get more out of a Discord server full of people interested in your projects than Reddit, anyhow. The whole paywall aspect makes it very different from Fig Hunter.
The degree to which devs are in their Discord I think depends on the size of the community and the size of the dev team. Whole teams can afford to have someone in charge of community stuff, solo devs tend to not be in there much. I'm in a server that's smaller than yours and the dev probably checks in once a day to reply to stuff if something has been said. Solo devs won't spend all their time in their discords, and there's no expectation for them to be.
I suppose the closest I have to a friend network is that AF server I am in, which I do post in daily, though the amount of actual conversations varies. I tend to do the most conversing when we're doing that cooperative AF:C quest or when I'm watching a show or playing a game alongside somebody else. I wish I had an IRL friend and we could play games together and confess our feelings and date and buy a house and work less because we'd be childless income earners!! But that requires effort, uuugh.
I remember the UFO stuff, that was a frequent topic here, maybe a year ago? Everybody's eyes in the US right now are probably on whatever federal rights they're going to be losing next, anyway.
I do play games regularly, anyhow. I don't think a day goes by that I don't, even if it is sometimes just a daily dose of playing YuGiOh online. Some games are really big time investments, whereas others are not. I think that as people grow older, they appreciate games that do a lot in little time more than games that do little for a lot of time.
According to my blog I've played about 16 games in the first four months. Not too much or too little, I guess. The game I'm currently playing is Bugsnax, the undisputed Game Of The Year of all years, which I'm enjoying quite a lot.
I'm pretty sure that the amount of people who join a Discord relative to the amount of people interested in a project is pretty small, though they are bound to be some of the more dedicated fans of a work I suppose. Enough to spend money on Patreon, at least!
We do actually use the emoticons you made for AF:C as the server emotes in the AF server I am in! So in a way, you already did make Discord emotes!
Your Discord is pretty barren these days, there was a time I tried to be active there, but it kinda felt like I was the only one starting conversations, and I wonder whether that just seemed overbearing or something... Anyway, when I decided to shut up for a month the amount of posts went down by like 90% or something, maybe.
I think it's just because people there aren't really interested in forming a community, just your projects, which they can talk about here instead, so what is there to say? I could share screenshots of games I'm playing or make dumb AF-related jokes, but
I think you'd probably get more out of a Discord server full of people interested in your projects than Reddit, anyhow. The whole paywall aspect makes it very different from Fig Hunter.
The degree to which devs are in their Discord I think depends on the size of the community and the size of the dev team. Whole teams can afford to have someone in charge of community stuff, solo devs tend to not be in there much. I'm in a server that's smaller than yours and the dev probably checks in once a day to reply to stuff if something has been said. Solo devs won't spend all their time in their discords, and there's no expectation for them to be.
I suppose the closest I have to a friend network is that AF server I am in, which I do post in daily, though the amount of actual conversations varies. I tend to do the most conversing when we're doing that cooperative AF:C quest or when I'm watching a show or playing a game alongside somebody else. I wish I had an IRL friend and we could play games together and confess our feelings and date and buy a house and work less because we'd be childless income earners!! But that requires effort, uuugh.
I remember the UFO stuff, that was a frequent topic here, maybe a year ago? Everybody's eyes in the US right now are probably on whatever federal rights they're going to be losing next, anyway.