A Thought

When you don’t run your own forums, you lose the opportunity to data mine them. Traditionally, forum accounts are associated with game accounts. The forum database tells you who posts how often. The logs database tells you who plays how often. They share a key. Think about it.

Interesting, eh?

Comments (7) left to “A Thought”

  1. Darius K. wrote:

    Yet another example of critical business data that nobody can be bothered to collect.

  2. Psychochild wrote:

    Critical? I think it can be important, but games have survived without that data.

    Another interesting aspect is to consider what happens when the forums are internal to the game. We don’t mine the M59 globes much, but a cursory inspection has provided some interesting insights.

    Have fun.

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