Ok I'm going to just answer every question real quick:
- Right now CrosuS is a relatively new client that's exactly what FlyingHat said. It's basically a place where you can upload a mod, download a mod, find a map for games, etc, with a community aspect. It's free, because we want it to become a community where people go. Charging money rarely helps communities grow and the mods are not ours to profit from--only to expose, and hopefully expose our company in the same way since we make HL2 mods
- I joined the Isotx team as a community manager a while ago, and because I play video games way too much, wanted them to expand and open up to subsets of a gaming community. Since CrosuS is new, they needed someone to haggle them into this because a lot of the people coding were clueless about what games have great mods and what games don't. I'm choosing Starcraft and Warcraft III as well as Half-life 2 to be my areas of focus; they're just my personal favorite games, and from my experience, have some of the best add-ons.
- To Lord: We're looking for all types of mods. I can probably talk to the lead developer and ask him to even make a check box for non-grafted vs. grafted in options, so people know what they're downloading and such if you think it'd help
Right now CrosuS is in a very basic stage and I'm required to evaluate it daily, giving feedback.
That being said, if you have feedback that's negative, let me know and I can probably help fix it within the week. I have the team's numbers and emails, and they listen. I'm not 100% pleased with CrosuS myself, so I've been working with people to hopefully make it more gamer friendly. I think it suffers from a team that never were hardcore gamers, or never pulled all-nighters on Lost Temple (sorry, favorite SC map of all time for me, had to drop a reference), or never played Counter-strike. Most of them, at best, played through the storyline of games mentioned and never did multiplayer.
- Excalibur: I don't like the forums at ALL, either. This is something I have been thinking about asking them to change, but haven't had inspiration to totally rearrange as a proposition... They're busy because we have random products, like mods and an upcoming game, but CrosuS' forums in particular are a muddled mess. Definitely not highlighted enough. The community is so weak there, and I really don't troll anything but Halflife2.net forums so I have no idea how they should tackle it. If you have any ideas at the front of your head, or if you could tell me why exactly they aren't your cup of tea (betting same reason as me), please lemme know either here or monique@isotx.com.
Okay, with that
omgwalloftext out of the way, I was thinking that perhaps working with this community in particular would be a great way to go. You know more about SC modding than I do, and probably modding in general (I'm just a gamer who works with databases and php). Our site gets a significant amount of traffic (several thousand uniques per day) and when the CrosuS site goes live, I could get an affiliate section.
Lots of things to think about. Thanks so much for your help--and if this thread does get nuked, thanks for the help anyway. It gave me some ideas for CrosuS.
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