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Written by Times
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Sunday, 13 September 2009 11:54 |
124 total pictures, compared to 600 last year. Wow, what a decrease in photos sent it by players only a year on! Lets look at some of the reasons why there were so little entries for Staff Appreciation Week on bootleggers.
Declining player base - players and declining on bootleggers, interest is being lost. I myself have not been playing like how I was a year ago. It seems that people are losing interest and quitting the game, or not participating in such activited.
Excluding several staff members - 1 Help Desk Operator and 3 Bootcast DJ's do not have pictures submitted for them. While DJ bootcasts are not as high profile as say a moderator, the could still have their friends submit pictures if they had a picture up there to print. But this didn't happen. Also, it seems a bootcast DJ tried to submit his picture to BSF but we all know how bad he is at updating stuff quickly.
Less player creativity - Last year, it was all about creativity. You had to make your own sign. Creativity went into this, and it really shone through in SAW 2008. In fact it's great to read all of the signs. This year, it's mandatory that you have to print off the picture sent in by a staff member. Loss of player creativity right there. This is certainly the main reason, as I know people who have tried to create their own signs, only to have their photos rejected. Last year, this would not of hapenned.
Having to print the picture - This can exclude many people, who don't have a printer, or like me use a laptop computer not connected to any printer.
There you go, just some of my thoughts as to why SAW this year has declined so much from last year. We will see what will happen next year as I sure BSF2000 will change the format, somehow.
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