User talk:Procyon/DoubleJump

Offer from Hardcore Gamer
I was thinking of posting this on Community Issues, but I didn't think that it really belonged there. And yet, I needed some place to put this. So I figured any member of the staff who patrolled the RC would find this, especially with the edit summary. We have a fairly serious offer to consider from DoubleJump publishing. Here is the exact email:

A lot of details need to be worked out obviously, but this could lead to a LOT of exposure. Obviously, echelon's opinion is most important, but I'd like to know how the rest of you would receive this. Discuss. Procyon (Talk) 17:38, 13 September 2007 (CDT)
 * Wow, an email from the president (I did some research, obviously). Surprisingly (or maybe not so), I really haven't even heard of this company before. I'm for it if it would yield a lot of hits, etc. but I'm a bit leery of exactly how the promotions will take place. I do NOT want to see any flash-based promotions, so it would have to stick with text in the sidebar and maybe an icon at the bottom. Also, since I'm completely unfamiliar with the "branding" process, how much control over the wiki would we lose by going through with this. -- 18:24, 13 September 2007 (CDT)
 * DoubleJump don't publish as many guides as Prima or BradyGames, but they are held in high regard for the insane level of information their guides contain (their site calls one of them "a 650 page strategy-brick"). They also have the extra leverage of all their guides being official. I'd be very interested to see how exactly this would be achieved. Certainly I don't want to see this site become DoubleJumpWiki. ;) GarrettTalk 18:55, 13 September 2007 (CDT)
 * The whole reason this came about is because of the article that I was asked to write for Hardcore Gamer which is published by DoubleJump publishing (or by the same organization, I'm not entirely sure what the connection is. Tim of DoubleJump was the one who asked me to write the article for Hardcore Gamer, so there clearly is a connection.)  If you visit Hardcore Gamer website, they have a wiki of their own, but it's doing abysmally.  So when I started communicating with Tim, I mentioned SW as an aside, and he said he would check it out.  A few weeks later, and here we are.  I wrote back to Tim expressing an interest to explore the matter further (and nothing more than that at this time), and he wrote back to say:


 * The bit about remaining autonomous was a good sign in my eyes. Anyway, more food for thought. Procyon (Talk) 20:23, 13 September 2007 (CDT)