We still need to be turning up the volume, gathering more support.
Instead I see fewer and fewer comments and likes made to posts covering the story and linked to in the 'Thank the Media' call to action thread.
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This. The more traffic we drive to websites/magazines who had covered the campaign, the more likely the editors are to look at their stats, see there's an interest in the story and run more on it. This is even more likely if we're interacting with them, leaving comments and likes.
I know that it feels like so many parts of the media are ignoring us since NC Soft claimed they'd 'exhausted' all options, but we need to be putting pressure on the magazines to investigate the claims NC Soft made about exhausting themselves. We need to be shouting about the great stuff we're doing, like the real world hero drive.
If it doesn't look like WE'RE interested in the coverage we're getting, how can we expect the press and the blogs and the website to be interested in us?
Please, please, please a billion times over.. please swing by the 'thank the media thread' and leave a comment on the articles that have been written about us. Find the 'NC Soft say they exhausted all options' articles and ask what investigation they did into that claim, or if they just copy and pasted NC Soft's statement. Call them out publicly, so they HAVE to respond, or follow up on it.
If you put pressure on a journalist, they will, in turn, put pressure on NC Soft. Or write an article about how they ignored them, or wouldn't respond to comments, which puts pressure on NC Soft.
If anyone is looking for something to do, I am desperate for bloggers and game journalists to rework and find a home for the 'firewall of silence' press release I put up. PLEASE PM me if you've got a blog, or write for a gaming site, or think you can help with this?
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I know things are getting harder, and I know a lot of people feel like their flagging a little.
I know it's been forever since we've had an official call to action, so it's left a lot of people who are very angry and upset in the same place, trying to work out what's going on and without a call to action, there's all that pent-up frustration bouncing around, without an outlet, or without being steered in a particular direction. That's bound to lead to short tempers and spats.
But we're all on the same side, and we all want the same thing. Even if we don't always see eye-to-eye as to how we're going to get there.
