Community control

There are many reasons as to why people join

Emotional investment in the game, gameplay, and accompanying factors

Many people build communities around a game character or a studio because they feel so emotionally invested in the game.

This can include:

· Creating a fan page

· Creating subreddits

· Fan art of characters

Shared experience

There a lot of games have themes from real life, and many players look at a lot of creative media to find stories that are similar to something that you went through, showing your experience with fellow gamers created a story bond

A feeling of belonging

· From communities

· From making friends here

Why would one want to foster this sense of community

· Communities provide a social need to their participants. Members will feel belonging and shared camaraderie with their contemporaries and will naturally be drawn to your game’s community.

· Members of the community that achieve this sense of belonging are one of your best assets in proselytizing and evangelizing your game to the wider world.

Fostering communities

Create community events

Fostering friendship

Let players express themselves

Use architecture to shape your community

Manage the community

Three levels

· Newbie

· Players

· Elder