A Proposition

[Jones]

not to be a dick but don't waste your money on this

this will not increase the player base

but if you wanna buy prophetstatement.com, i'd be willing to sell it to you for my friends & family discount of $500

i agree with this. there are far "better" alternatives

[Reaver]

Well it says there's 245 active members of this forum. Say 10% (which is probably optimistic not to mention most won't be able to post about diablo because they nothing about it) of those agree to post on your forum and each do an average of one post a day. That's 25 posts per day and 175 posts per week. Is that going to be enough to help make your forum popular enough so it's worth your investment?

There isn't really a magic number, but the more people that say they'll help the more likely I am to do it.

To Salubrious: Maybe

Paradise is right, I think the bigger question is not really if 25 posts per day would be enough, but whether or not they would be about diablo 1, 2 or 3...I personally just played the original diablo and enjoyed it but I don't have as much time for gaming these days so I don't play anything else, I assumed a good portion of people from TW played diablo 1 or 2 and would possibly play d3.

LF: In the worst case scenario I can sell the domain and vbulletin forums and I'd be out maybe $1000...I'm trying to determine if it's worth throwing away $1000

Supreme: Though scrolling through it im still not entirely sure what you mean to do. Make a forum on a game (in this case diablo), try to get diablo members on it and then get them to check this game out? Isnt that a little far-fetched?

Yeah that's pretty much it, I don't think it's far fetched at all, I assume you play video games, would you be interested in hearing about another game, oh by the way it's free, and it's not browser based, see what I mean?

[Reaver]

I should add that there are alternatives to this, I don't necessary have to do it all, i.e. I could purchase the domain, someone could help with the VB skin (I'm pretty sure Jason or someone here made it), donations could be taken to purchase the vbulletin license, etc. I'm definitely open to getting help and not baring the whole thing, but that's entirely based on interest...

[Ilya]

pretty sure this thread is just an advertisement for diablo

reaver you trickster

[Reaver]

hah, so can I consider you as someone that would help for this Ilya?

[Rasaq]

Diablo USA-1 FTW.

[Kahlan]

There are a BUTT-TON of Diablo forum sites out there. Especially with D3 coming out. Saturated market.

[Reaver]

I'm well aware, are you aware that from an SEO standpoint that if your website is a direct search that it's significantly easier to rank well for it? I.e. if I own freegame.com I'm much more likely to come up for anyone searching "free game" even if there are 9 million competitors? The domain name is a direct search, that's why it's $$