Reply To: Beasts of War – OnTableTop – Phase III: Time for speculations and conspiracies

[redscope]

The biggest problem is the project site. It could be a wonderful tool to show case peoples work and products. However it is such a pain to use. It is slightly better than a year ago but when it does go wrong i feel like walking away from it. Today for example I spent an hour writing an update, adding pictures to a detailed post. Only to hit submit, get a cloud flare error and lost all the work and effort.

To be honest I rarely look to view other peoples projects because it is so slow to navigate and track down what you are looking for. I just get annoyed sat waiting for pages to load like I am back using a 56k modem to access the internet.

Like most people pre-covid and post covid this site feels completely different. I know it is not just the lockdown but the business being sold, people stepping back. However I think it is also the hobby companies changing as well. I am sure the bootcamps had in the past be largely funded by companies like battlefront with flames of war. I dont know if companies are willing to fund that type of cost and effort as prices are rising.

I think how do you make that business model work today? A lot of the companies paying for adverts these days are kickstarters and often much smaller 3D printing companies. Kickstarter to me has perhaps seen its golden age for the hobby and we are in much smaller efforts. The question becomes how do you fund extra bits to do bootcamps ?

What would I like to see if money was not an issue ?

I actually miss the board games information. Post Free leaving that link into wayland games who sell a lot of board games appears to have died off. Which on the face of it seems to skip over a large market and additional source of income.

The other thing I would like to see if the staff be given more chance to showcase more of the hobby they are into. Outside of the site Ben puts his passion into Middle earth, Age of Sigmar. John one assumes from what I know into the tanks, and battletech. If you have seen bens youtube channel you will see the passion he has for those games and it seems a shame that type of content is not reflected more on the site.

I understand you need to seperate what is news about a new product from your own seperate view and that can be difficult. It would be nice to see ben review models and games he is into. John reviewing the new tanks for flames of war, doing more battle reports.

Not that I have anything against the current format for the weekender but sometimes you need to change things up. To get people excited about the hobby. I feel like generally on social media I see a lot of doom and gloom about the hobby when actually we are in one of the most exciting and expanding points in the hobby. The site is generally a positive focus on the hobby and one of few sites that does so.

 

• This reply was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by redscope.