Just About Gaming News, our second-ever community, has become Just About Video Games! This broader remit has many implications, some clear, others less so; it lets us do some very exciting stuff with our bounties, for instance.
Let’s dig into what this means and why its significance goes beyond the obvious.
What’s changed
The purpose of our Alpha phase is so that we can learn and adjust, and build the very best community platform possible for our members. Pivoting to a generalist Video Games community is a green light to discuss whatever you want in the wild weird world of interactive art and entertainment, rather than feeling like you need to post news alone (though please keep doing that, too).
It’s also a green light to us to do all sorts of cool things that didn’t make sense in a news-focused community - especially with bounties.
Imagine bounties for the same kind of artful photo-video content, useful guides, thoughtful reflections, and other exciting challenges we’ve been posting in Just About EVE, but applied to the wider release calendar. The first tranche is live already, covering Mortal Kombat 1, Payday 3, Baldur’s Gate 3, and gaming in general.
You’ll see a similar kind of mix from now on, meaning that everyone, not just EVE members, can get involved in one of our platform’s most exciting features.
How this helps
From our side, the insights we hope to glean from this change may affect Just About in major ways. If certain bounties or discussions get a lot of engagement, for example, we might take that as a sign of demand for our next standalone community. We’ll use our ‘topics’ feature to categorise content - say, by game - and may develop it to enable things like cross-posting and opting in and out of particular subjects. If this seems like a minor change, it could have major implications.
So don’t be shy!
Arguing with friends about the best Final Fantasy and want some data to prove that it’s IX? Poll our community.
Itching to share your overpowered Baldur’s Gate 3 coffeelock build, or your umpteenth stomping by a boss in the latest Soulslike? Go right ahead.
Found a great news story? Keep sharing them.
Or perhaps you just want to gush about how awesome 2023 has been for game releases so far and how we’ve still got the Cyberpunk 2077 DLC, AC Mirage, Spider-Man 2, and many more to come.
Our new all-purpose Video Games space is the place to do all of this and more, and as always, we’ll be paying close attention to see what you’re responding to. Take a look, get stuck in, and post anything and everything you want as long as it’s: Just About Video Games!