Everyone, please keep in mind that it has now been 4 months (nearly to the day) that the official FoE Wiki has been online. So with that in mind, I want everyone reading this to do the following, which is what a new player who joins this game might be inclined to do at some point, if he or she was curious enough to want to learn more about how to play the game of FoE better:
- Open a new Browser Tab to forgeofempires.com. ← That is an active link you can click.
- Once you are on the forgeofempires.com web page, click the Help menu at the top of that web page to see what helpful resources are available so that you can better learn you way around the game of FoE.
Q1: Why is the FoE Wiki, which is your best helpful resource (and it will only improve over time), not explicitly listed in this menu?
Q2: Why is the FoE Forum, which is also a darned helpful resource, not explicitly listed in this menu? Yes I know the player can drill down to get to where it eventually links to the forum, but it should be an item in the Help menu. Why make new players click more links than they really should need to, in order to get to where the real knowledge repositories actually are? The more links they must click to find the information they seek, the worse experience they have, the more likely they are to not play your game!
- Scroll up to the top of this Forum page that you are reading right now, and see these tabs that run across the top of the page:
Q3: Why is there no tab for the FoE Wiki, which is your best helpful resource (and it will only improve over time), listed in this area? Finding The Wiki is vastly more important to a player that finding you on social media is!
- Without reading any other post of the FoE Forums, and without reading any old announcement posts on the Forge of Empires web page, try to find any reference at all that The FoE Wiki evens exists, much less find a link to it.
Q4: Why isn't the FoE Wiki, which is your best helpful resource (and it will only improve over time), advertised at all?
It appears that the FoE Support Team has assumed, that only active forum participants might care enough to use The FoE Wiki; and that it is just some reference to refer forum participants to from within a forum post.
FoE players have kept their own, player-driven Wikia web site going for several years now. Thousands of FoE players end up at that web site without ever having logged into the FoE forums at all! You guys really need to advertise the FoE Wiki in the places I've mentioned above. And if you think logically about it for even half a second, you'll agree that I'm correct.
You have this resource, which to all appearances you are working very hard to improve; however, no one can find this resource unless they already knew it was there. That is kind of working against yourself isn't it?