- Joined
- May 22, 2012
Hello! Finally good ol' dunover has turned blue on the forum, and that's not just the language! The long awaited inception of the Player Focus Group is here and I shall be administering the day-to-day running of it alongside Neil and Bryan. The PFG is a commercial venture leveraged off the back of Casinomeister's stellar reputation and the combined knowledge of its membership. This is the first service of this type as far as we know and we believe the concept has great potential for both developers and players.
Many members here often bemoan the lack of quality in new slot releases and are repeatedly observing aspects players don't like in many of them. There seems sometimes to be a disconnect between developers and the market and both of those entities want the same thing - decent and playable games!
To that end, what better idea than to link the combined experience of seasoned players here and those having other areas of expertise in game analysis and development along with marketing and to then provide that to developers in one tiered service?
Well, it's happening now finally and this is where my role requires some (paid) assistance. While Bryan and Neil mainly perform the customer liaison and marketing role, I shall be assigning testers from various demographics and will be analysing the game in question myself and providing the final customer report and video annotation of said Excel report. A summary of the testers' findings and opinions is a vital part of this report as obviously we all focus on different aspects and have varied preferences which the developer needs to be aware of. More heads a better job makes!
I will shortly be contacting a number of respected members who have previously demonstrated a good understanding of new slots and like myself have posted polite, intelligent and objective opinions regarding them. Perhaps it's a good job my YT has gone! but trust me on this - every developer requires honesty, whether negative or otherwise as those of you whom have helped Simmo! with Afterlife Inferno will recall.
All I will require is the tester's age group and male/female (something I already know for most anyway) as I need a balanced group of respondents. Those I have chosen for any particular contract will have their forum name forwarded to Bryan because as holder of the Data Protection on CM only he can obtain necessary details for your payment via Paypal or Bank Transfer only. I will select a pool of suitable persons and usually only some (rather than all) will be used on any particular contract, depending on the requirements of the customer. Payments will be settled by Bryan once final invoicing is complete and paid.
Your work will take 2-3 hours maximum, most of which will be playing a demo and the rest filling in a crib sheet on either notepad or Excel I have designed and sent you at the beginning. Once that's returned to me, you're done. It goes without saying that your role will be absolutely confidential and in some cases the admin will have to sign a No Disclosure Agreement. This is why I shall be choosing very carefully!
Sorry for the long post, but I need to be pretty expansive here to hopefully forestall any questions I anticipated.
Further down the line I believe both ourselves as players and the developers will see the benefits of this project! Thanks!
Many members here often bemoan the lack of quality in new slot releases and are repeatedly observing aspects players don't like in many of them. There seems sometimes to be a disconnect between developers and the market and both of those entities want the same thing - decent and playable games!
To that end, what better idea than to link the combined experience of seasoned players here and those having other areas of expertise in game analysis and development along with marketing and to then provide that to developers in one tiered service?
Well, it's happening now finally and this is where my role requires some (paid) assistance. While Bryan and Neil mainly perform the customer liaison and marketing role, I shall be assigning testers from various demographics and will be analysing the game in question myself and providing the final customer report and video annotation of said Excel report. A summary of the testers' findings and opinions is a vital part of this report as obviously we all focus on different aspects and have varied preferences which the developer needs to be aware of. More heads a better job makes!
I will shortly be contacting a number of respected members who have previously demonstrated a good understanding of new slots and like myself have posted polite, intelligent and objective opinions regarding them. Perhaps it's a good job my YT has gone! but trust me on this - every developer requires honesty, whether negative or otherwise as those of you whom have helped Simmo! with Afterlife Inferno will recall.
All I will require is the tester's age group and male/female (something I already know for most anyway) as I need a balanced group of respondents. Those I have chosen for any particular contract will have their forum name forwarded to Bryan because as holder of the Data Protection on CM only he can obtain necessary details for your payment via Paypal or Bank Transfer only. I will select a pool of suitable persons and usually only some (rather than all) will be used on any particular contract, depending on the requirements of the customer. Payments will be settled by Bryan once final invoicing is complete and paid.
Your work will take 2-3 hours maximum, most of which will be playing a demo and the rest filling in a crib sheet on either notepad or Excel I have designed and sent you at the beginning. Once that's returned to me, you're done. It goes without saying that your role will be absolutely confidential and in some cases the admin will have to sign a No Disclosure Agreement. This is why I shall be choosing very carefully!
Sorry for the long post, but I need to be pretty expansive here to hopefully forestall any questions I anticipated.
Further down the line I believe both ourselves as players and the developers will see the benefits of this project! Thanks!