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” We hope you understand that there’s nothing we can do at the moment ,” says the support email we just received from Aventurine , developers of Darkfall .

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Massively’s Community Detective, Issue #2: Darkfall and EVE Online

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Le Community Manager du MMO Dofus répond à nos questions.

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AC#5 : Rencontre avec… Sylfaen (Dofus) !

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An article at GamePro caused a bit of a stir in the gaming industry yesterday, sparking discussion on a topic covered at this year’s PAX East — namely, that of the history of Community Managers and what their jobs entail. Now, there is a fair amount of background to AJ Glasser’s article that we won’t delve into, because the comment that many readers focused on was this one: “Before Xbox Live’s Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb — who holds the ambiguous title director of programming for Xbox Live — community managers were mostly forum moderators, people whose job entailed monitoring message boards and weeding out trolls.

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News article sparks debate among Community Managers

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The War in Kryta campaign has garnered an incredible amount of attention from the Guild Wars community, at first because of the mystery surrounding the OBEY and DISMANTLE flyers. As time passed and it became increasingly clear that this would help bridge the gap between Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2 , it became an even hotter topic among the fanbase

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Guild Wars Community Manager talks War in Kryta

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Community managers are the very definition of a paradox. They’re some of the most public faces of the game, yet their role is often least understood. They serve many masters — developers, players, marketing, press — and are beholden to all of them at once

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PAX East 2010: Community manager panel

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The somewhat European inspired fantasy MMO The Chronicles of Spellborn is shutting down its Japanese service, causing a stir of worry and discussion about the title’s future in other territories within the community at large. To make matters worse, the one person who could’ve cleared up any confusion, TheHistorian, is no longer with publisher Acclaim as community manager for the game. Given that he was the sole link between the community and developers, it’s no wonder people are feeling a bit unsettled by the whole affair

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Spellborn dropping out of the Japanese market

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Continuing directly from yesterday’s community managers interview …

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Making it as an MMO blogger: The community manager interviews part 2

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Today, Cryptic_Stormshade confirmed what the Champions Online community was speculating on since the early morning hours — that Cryptic_Daeke, the Champions Online community manager, has parted ways with Cryptic Studios . David “Daeke” Bass ’s leaving comes amidst heavy fire from the community on Cryptic’s most recent endeavor, the addition of Vibora Bay in Champions Online . Daeke was the first member of the Cryptic staff to acknowledge that Vibora Bay would be a piece of paid content , and not a free patch to the game.

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Community manager Daeke leaves Cryptic, Stormshade to replace him

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Le Community Manager de Command & Conquer 4 vient de nous informer via Twitter que la bêta publique du jeu arrivait. Les détails exacts de son arrivée devraient être connus dans le courant de la semaine.

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La bêta publique de Command & Conquer 4 arrive…

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Sam Van Tilburgh , le “community manager” de Lionhead semble en tout cas nous confirmer dans cette idée en twittant d’abord “en train de bosser sur les storyboard pour 2 nouvelles vidéos de Fable 3″ , puis “elles arriveront lorque nous présenteront Fable III pour la 1ère fois le mois prochain à un event à SF”. SF pour San Francisco, logiquement

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Fable III dévoilé le mois prochain ?

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