Alrighty, I think we can all agree last years Fan Faire was a pretty successful one for MxO. We had our name and a short video clip up on the screen at the community address, we had at least one dedicated computer booth set up for the game and we had bigger and louder numbers than the previous year creating an altogether better impression of our game and, from what we could tell, turning a few heads.
The purpose of this thread, besides discuss the lead up to the next Fan Faire and who will all be going or at least trying to, is to make suggestions both in 'an ideal world' and 'reasonable' to which we could improve our promotion and our own experience of our game during the next Fan Faire.
In an 'ideal world' I'd love to see MxO with it's own booth, like The Agency and that kind of thing though I don't actually remember an SWG/EQ booth, but eh my memory is sketchy, so those booths are probably reserved for the likes of up and coming games.
So, anyways, I think some reasonable suggestions/some not would be;
-MxO trial keys coming with every bag that's handed out at registration.
-Perhaps some kind of video demonstration/tutotial at one of the panels taking potential new players. If people are interested having recieved the trial key, having this at a panel would then allow them to have an introduction to the game visually with no real hassell to them and they'd have an idea of how to start without running around like headless chickens, though that is part of the fun sometimes.
-Perhaps, depending on the quality of the video, in our short video clip at the community address it could actually be scenes from a player video, perhaps the winning one from Phracks contest or a seperate contest run closer to the time.
-Some kind of display of some of the artistic design done by some of our players, to show the real beauty of the game off and the artistic potential. (This is unlikely, I'd expect)
-If I recall, Warner Brothers is a pain when authorising stuff like Morpheus' RSI etc to be put on alot of the Fan Faire merchandise. Is there any kind of Matrix Online RSI that could be put on the fan faire merchandise? An RSI with just green code streaking down it, for example?
Hum, thats all I can think of just now D:
As far as destinations go, I'm easy. Somewhere close to wherever I end up in the US next year would be nice though, incase it's later than usual this time around :p
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and Vegas also has free drinks!!
