FFR on Facebook?!

[kommisar]

we thought of ads but didn't feel like paying for ads was a good idea. Just advertising through friends would be highly effective though.

[UserNameGoesHere]

I'm going to go ahead and give a great big "no" to this.

I can't say that I really like the whole connect up everything with Facebook direction things seem to be going. Wait it out and we might have something better in a few years anyway.

We need social networking which is under the user's control, not under corporate or government control. Instead of being the "product" with companies buying your data, you should have full control over it or at the very least they should give you a cut of the profits.

Zuckerberg has billions -- just think about that. Your information is profitable. Why shouldn't you get at least a cut of that? The guy isn't "nice" -- he's merely found a way to make major bucks exploiting everyone's info.

[87x]

I see what a lot of you guys are saying. I understand where both sides of the argument can be made. I, for one, am for the idea.

Don't think about it so "personally". The game goes on facebook with either a full song list or truncated, you add a purchase system so people can buy more songs or song packs, and you give them a link to post their new high scores on their time line. Where is the down side?

If we think about it in math terms. Say we get 1 million people to play the game on facebook. 20% decide to buy song(s)/packs and another 20% decide to continue on with their new addiction. We don't link FFR to facebook, but you give them the option to "Link" their accounts at signup to transfer over their current scores and what-not to their new user name. You add a small interface change to allow/hide facebook modifications, ie, "Post score to facebook" link, in the game and you call it a day. Say a pack of 50 songs is $5. You just made the site a million dollars (theoretically). You also just added 200000 people to the FFR community.

This way you are generating revenue for the site, you are adding to the sites populace, and you aren't infringing on what we already love.

If you are worried about adding non "quality" members, you shouldn't be. What happens when a regular joe joins the forums and doesn't fit in? He gets "shunned" from the community and he stops posting. The forums will iron themselves out. The "bad people" won't stick around and post and the "quality" members will.

I say its a win-win for us.

[Hazelle]

Originally Posted by 87x

I see what a lot of you guys are saying. I understand where both sides of the argument can be made. I, for one, am for the idea.

Don't think about it so "personally". The game goes on facebook with either a full song list or truncated, you add a purchase system so people can buy more songs or song packs, and you give them a link to post their new high scores on their time line. Where is the down side?

If we think about it in math terms. Say we get 1 million people to play the game on facebook. 20% decide to buy song(s)/packs and another 20% decide to continue on with their new addiction. We don't link FFR to facebook, but you give them the option to "Link" their accounts at signup to transfer over their current scores and what-not to their new user name. You add a small interface change to allow/hide facebook modifications, ie, "Post score to facebook" link, in the game and you call it a day. Say a pack of 50 songs is $5. You just made the site a million dollars (theoretically). You also just added 200000 people to the FFR community.

This way you are generating revenue for the site, you are adding to the sites populace, and you aren't infringing on what we already love.

If you are worried about adding non "quality" members, you shouldn't be. What happens when a regular joe joins the forums and doesn't fit in? He gets "shunned" from the community and he stops posting. The forums will iron themselves out. The "bad people" won't stick around and post and the "quality" members will.

I say its a win-win for us.

I think FFR is a non-profit site.

Anyone: Weren't there some complaints by some artists about FFR somehow making revenue off songs themselves? This could be a touchy area.

[devonin]

The vast majority of permissions from artists were granted under the understanding and condition that the site was non-profit and was not making any money from their music.

[Fluvs]

We cannot make money out of the artists music it's not right thing to do

[justin_ator]

I still agree with 87x with the exception of the profit portion. New users are new users, and he has a valid point overall. It's still a good idea even if we aren't making money off of it.

[87x]

So remove my money suggestion. The rest of it still applies. I support the idea.

[DossarLX ODI]

Holy shit 87x posted