How Bioware Makes A Community Work

Posted by Zonk on Friday December 2, 2005 @08:35AM from the cross-talking dept.

Gamasutra has an article discussing the procedures that Bioware uses to maintain and grow their online communities based around their games. From the article: "Fans as content creators are another asset. 'if you build it, they will build it as well...' Some members want to add to the community in very real and meaningful ways, and some of them possess 'mad skillz.' '90% of what sustains a community,' Watamaniuk stated, 'is the community itself. You provide the framework for their work. If fans are there creating content, it means that you don't have to create 100% of the content yourself.'"

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Its the games by Clockwurk · 2005-12-02 09:05 · Score: 4, Insightful

Bioware for the most part makes RPGs. For the most part, the gamer that is interested in a bioware game is interested in engaging stories and deep characters, and are likely to also enjoy reading and writing (the staples of any online community).

Bioware also has a fair amount of developer interaction, its not uncommon to see Bioware employees answer questions directly.