displaying quotes about your game on ws.

[jankoM]

Hi...

Simple question. You have a game and users on various forums gave you a lot of feedback for it... If you wish to put some of those quotes up on website of a game... (A) do you need to ask them if you can quote them and they must allow or (B) you can just quote them? What is the ussual practice?

I was also thinking about giving a link next to each quote to the page where it is from so it doesn't came out as fake.

regards,
Janko

[Grey Alien]

OK I've read a reasonable amount of Internet marketing crap and this is the lowdown:

a) I think it's just polite to ask peple if you can use their quote (if they are an online mag, you may legally have to ask them). In fact you can even ask people to give you a quote - that's totally valid too and you'll get some good ones.
b) Show their full name and location after the quote. This makes it more believable.
c) If you can show a photo, even better!
d) best of all is an audio or video testimonal of a totally happy customer.

If you can link to a proper review cool, but a link to a forum post would be crap.

That's my opinion anyway, even though I haven't totally followed my own advice on my own site, but I would in the future.

[jankoM]

I only have forum quotes... I imagine the reasons reasons but can you tell me anyway why forum links could be crap so I can think on this some more.

Otherwise... I didn't want to cheez-it-all-up... but I got a bunch of comments before releasing and I thought I could use them.

thanks for reply
Janko

//edit.... yes... I will ask them

[Shaz]

It's a perception thing, but I don't think a forum post carries the weight or authority of a review site. However, for the best of both worlds, why not send an email or a PM to the people who posted good comments about your game, tell them you'd like to put their quote on your site, and ask them to email their quote to you - this will give them an opportunity to change the wording if they know it's going to be on your game's home page, to say how they would like their name/location shown, etc. That is, of course, if an email review is any better than a post on your forum.

Which brings up another question: what to do about spelling? If the forum post or the comment in the email is full of spelling mistakes, do you correct them for the sake of looking more professional? Or do you leave them as-is for the sake of telling it the way it originally was and not offending your reviewer? I have a strong dislike for reading things that are full of spelling mistakes, and IMO it's VERY unprofessional for a website that's offering a product or service to have ANY typos.

[jankoM]

Hmmm...interesting question... I also don't know about spelling... And maybe I would have to translate some of them too :)

I will see... I liket that those quotes came naturally and are as such more juicy and interesting... I will ask them (the quoters) and see what they think...

thanks.
Janko