Anniversary thread was Re: SWBF Days - Last Saturday of every month

[Led]

OK, here is my first second attempt at a draft for a mass email--please comment, fix grammar, give suggestions, etc.



Hi--this is Buckler aka Led from www.SWBFgamer.com

You are receiving this email since you have registered at our website,
which was formerly known as MPCgamers.com.

Star Wars: Battlefront is celebrating 10 years of gaming this December.

I wanted to make you aware of some new developments for the original
Star Wars: Battlefront (SWBF) for the PC player community.

Gamespy no longer works for us to play SWBF online anymore, but
we have a replacement master server called GameMaster.  With a simple file
replacement, we are playing SWBF online again.

The patch and installation instructions are available at www.SWBFgamers.com and
a youtube video is available for additional help.

A core group of players still plays each night, but we miss the old days when a lot
of people filled the SWBF servers.  We invite you to find your old game disk, patch
SWBF for new online play and join us for a weekend of gaming on December xx
to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of this great game.

We hope to see you on the front.

All the best,
Led

[MileHighGuy]

I would post to reddit too. /r/starwarsbattlefront

[Norwood]

OK, here is my first attempt at a draft for a mass email--please comment, fix grammar, give suggestions, etc.

Here is a slightly changed version, which I think has a little better grammar. I hope you don't mind...

[spoiler]Hi--this is Buckler aka Led from www.SWBFgamer.com

You are receiving this email since you have registered at our website,
which was formerly known as MPCgamers.com.

Star Wars: Battlefront is celebrating 10 years of gaming this December.

I wanted to make you aware of some new developments for the original
Star Wars: Battlefront (SWBF) for the PC player community.

Gamespy no longer works for us to be able to play SWBF online anymore, but
we have a replacement master server called GameMaster.  With a replacement
file that has the GameMaster patch, we are playing SWBF on-line again.

A core group of players still plays each night, but we miss the old days when a lot
of people filled the SWBF servers.  We invite you to find your old game disk, patch
SWBF for new on-line play with instructions from www.SWBFgamers.com and join
us for a weekend of gaming on December xx.

We hope to see you on the front.

All the best,
Led


[/spoiler]


Does that look any better? Its just a suggestion, if you don't like it that is fine.

Edit: Fixed some of my own errors... oops! - Edit 2: I stuck it in a spoiler to make it less obnoxious.

[Led]

ok, I made some updates 

more comments please

[Norwood]

I fixed my post, as Led made me aware of some errors...

[Phobos]

Looks good Led, I would add that there will be stock (regular) servers, and mod map servers. I will also be hosting more zombie servers in December, so if anyone has map recommendations for this let me know. Zombies can easily be added to any stock map too.

[{PLA}gdh92]

Thanks for doing this Led. I like the look of the E-mail but to avoid any confusion I would change this paragraph;

Gamespy no longer works for us to play SWBF online anymore, but
we have a replacement master server called GameMaster.  With a simple file
replacement, we are playing SWBF online again.

To:

Although the official servers and Gamespy have been turned off there is now a simple one time patch, called Gamemaster which means you can play online again.

It might just be me but I think saying file replacement will put people off but anyone who plays games now knows what a patch is.

Overall just keep it simple and let them know there's a reason to come back with everyone playing at once, I would also send the E-mil out after the beginning of December otherwise it's easy for people to forget an E-mail from a month earlier.

[Led]

OK, here is my third attempt at a draft for a mass email--please comment, fix grammar, give suggestions, etc.



Hi--this is Buckler aka Led from www.SWBFgamers.com

You are receiving this email since you have registered at our website,
which was formerly known as MPCgamers.com.

Star Wars: Battlefront is celebrating 10 years of gaming this December
and we want you back to celebrate with us.


Gamespy no longer works for us to play SWBF online anymore, but
we have a replacement master server called GameMaster.  With an easy to install
patch, we are playing SWBF online again.

The patch and installation instructions are available on the front page of
www.SWBFgamers.com and a youtube video is available for additional help.

We invite you to find your old game disk, patch SWBF for new online play and
join us for a weekend of gaming on December 26-28
to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of this great game.

We hope to see you on the front.

All the best,
Led

[Led]

Alright, read it over and let me know what date to set.   

When it looks good, I will hit the send button and prepare my inbox for 1000 bounced emails!   

[Joseph]

The first link is missing an s. For dates, the weekend of Dec 26-28 seems best.

I agree with gdh that the email should either be sent in early Dec, or have a reminder email sent around that time, as people may forget about it.

Thanks

[Led]

OK, fixed  , thanks.

I will hold off until the start of December for the mass email, but I will try a test with maybe the master modder group or something.

[{PLA}gdh92]

Looks good led 

[Led]

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=174147.0

turns out that is for SMF 1.2 not ours...I will look into it

[Joseph]

http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/SMF2.0:News_and_newsletters#Newsletters

[Led]

OK, the test message went OK. 

Do we have a date for the event? 

Do we have a date when the email should be sent out?