As of yesterday, we hit our goal with the Kickstarter campaign. I feel that, in the spirit of the CoX community spirit, that we should take a moment to reach out to all of those who helped make this possible.
I spent a few hours compiling a list of contact details for those who took the time out of their way to spread the word about City of Titans to the masses. This is an incomplete list and will likely expand over the next few days. Just as these individuals and sites did before us, please take some time out of your busy schedule and give them due kudos for helping out when we needed it the most. If anyone can contribute any missing contributors and contact details that I may have missed, I would greatly appreciate it.
[b]Email:[/b]
andras@kotaku.com
Kotaku: András Neltz
stephany@vg247.com
VG247: Stephany Nunneley (Twitter: @StephNunneley)
dave@polygon.com
Polygon: Dave Tach (Twitter: http://twitter.com/dptach)
pr@gamershell.com
Gamershell: (no author's name given)
reuben@tentonhammer.com
Ten Ton Hammer: Stacy "Martuk" Jones (Stacy does not seem to have a direct email, but this is the email of her boss Reuben Waters)
news@bluesnews.com
Blues News: James "furn" Furnes
craig@rockpapershotgun.com
Rock, Paper, Shotgun: Craig Pearson
tim@timcolwill.com
Games On: Tim Colwill
charlesborner@gmail.com
cox-supergroups.com: Hyperstrike
[b]Twitter:[/b]
PC Gamer: T.J. Hafer - https://twitter.com/#!/AsaTJ
incgamers.com: Paul Younger - https://twitter.com/psyounger
Joystiq: Danny Cowan - http://twitter.com/sardoose (Blog: http://dreamandfriends.com)
Comics Alliance: Caleb Goellner - https://twitter.com/calebandrew
Massively: Eliot Lefebvre - https://twitter.com/Eliot_Lefebvre
Strategy Informer: Jonah Falcon - https://twitter.com/JonahFalcon
PC Games N: Julian Benson - https://twitter.com/jBenson
Fanboys Anonymous: Orion Petitclerc - https://twitter.com/OrionSTARB0Y
Allthatsepic.com: MissValentine - https://twitter.com/MissValentinexx
Junkies Nation: Laura Hardgrave - https://twitter.com/laurahardgrave
bit-tech.com: David Hing - https://twitter.com/ChaoticTortoise
Game Front: Mike Sharkey - https://twitter.com/mjsharkey
[b]Misc:[/b]
MMORPG: Suzie Ford - http://www.mmorpg.com/profile.cfm/username/SBFord
Screwattack: ThatPunkAdam - http://www.screwattack.com/user/thatpunkadam
Danny Connolly - http://gamerant.com/contact/
[b]No contact information available:[/b]
N4G: Anthotis
Softpedia: Liana Nastase
MMOFront.com
MMOHuts.com
MMOFallout.com: Omali
Silicon Angle: Kyt Dotson
MMO Cast: Apophis
exilic.com
Worldstechblog.com
That Video Game Blog: Noe Ponce
Aegis 7: Augrunt
I would say that the *easiest* way to say thanks, is to do it via the comments on most of the websites. It shows them that we *read* their websites, it also shows the *other* gamers, that this is something that *does* have more legs behind it, apart from being a set of faceless players.
Most of them *don't* take time out of their day to do this, it is because they do it as a job.
Do you get people to say thanks to a reporter for them just doing their job (working off a tip, pushing it out to print)?
Just because someone drives a city bus and it's their job, doesn't mean I don't appreciate the service and thank them... :) Some of the bus drivers here, I suspect, think I'm a tad bit mad, but the rest seem to appreciate it well enough.
So thank you for doing your job, guys and girls!
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I agree with you both, actually. :)
Gangrel brings up a good point that I hadn't considered from a web journalism standpoint: Most coverage sites count the value of their articles based on the number of Comments just like how we tend to rate Facebook posts based on the number of Likes. On the other hand, letters / emails of support to various organizations tend to show that someone put enough thought and time into constructing something more substantial than a simple comment or response and tends to ring more strongly with the recipient.
I think a combination of these methods would prove most favorable and beneficial to our benefactors.
I'll go back and dig up the links to their respective pages to help increase traffic for their site to anyone willing to go in and leave a supporting comment or provide a copy of the link wherever they may find it useful. I should have this ready by early next week (I'm at work right now and will be going to be at the Ozarks this weekend, so time is sparse until I get back.)
Thank you both for your thoughts on this topic. :D