so people keep yapping on about how smw hacking is dying, etc, and so on and so forth. they might blame mario maker (lol), or kieran's snafu, or something. the main issue is saturation. i have said this before in another thread, and im gonna repeat it: vanilla alone cannot sell SMW hacking. that is not its forte. its cool and all how you can make awesome levels that surpass nintendo quality using only lumbar magic, but thats not gonna garner an audience. we need things that cause IMPACT.
ive made fun of smwc having a pr team before. however, i believe they can really serve a vital purpose here. what are they doing right now? afaik its only 1 dude running twitter and thats it; the yt channel is dead af kiddo. they (pr team, emphasis on TEAM it should be a crapton of people) can essentially serve as a marketing team; marketing hacks and stuff to a wider community and thus marketing smw hacking as a whole. you actually dont need a pr team for this now that i think of it; just people on the site dedicated to that task. its just that having them on staff means you can force them to do the job. thus we need good leadership and admins able to get people to do stuff
now... you cant just market everything. you need to sell quality. "here are our hacks of the day/week!" <- no. sell the best of the best. RESELL OLD STUFF. this is where we failed before. like i said earlier: we need to be racist. we need to market the chocolate stuff over the vanilla ones, not because theyre better, but because they have greater marketing potential. and this is where YOU the hacker comes in. MAKE COOLER SHIT. dont just think about yourself; think about the wider field. things like sicari are on the right track, and if we were in a better spot that hack couldve caused waves (not just sicari; im too out of the loop to name other hacks)
yeah thats it. im tired of hearing people complaining and not enough action being taken. in a sense im just a messenger
also it would really help if lm wasnt our ceiling
ive made fun of smwc having a pr team before. however, i believe they can really serve a vital purpose here. what are they doing right now? afaik its only 1 dude running twitter and thats it; the yt channel is dead af kiddo. they (pr team, emphasis on TEAM it should be a crapton of people) can essentially serve as a marketing team; marketing hacks and stuff to a wider community and thus marketing smw hacking as a whole. you actually dont need a pr team for this now that i think of it; just people on the site dedicated to that task. its just that having them on staff means you can force them to do the job. thus we need good leadership and admins able to get people to do stuff
now... you cant just market everything. you need to sell quality. "here are our hacks of the day/week!" <- no. sell the best of the best. RESELL OLD STUFF. this is where we failed before. like i said earlier: we need to be racist. we need to market the chocolate stuff over the vanilla ones, not because theyre better, but because they have greater marketing potential. and this is where YOU the hacker comes in. MAKE COOLER SHIT. dont just think about yourself; think about the wider field. things like sicari are on the right track, and if we were in a better spot that hack couldve caused waves (not just sicari; im too out of the loop to name other hacks)
yeah thats it. im tired of hearing people complaining and not enough action being taken. in a sense im just a messenger
also it would really help if lm wasnt our ceiling