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View Poll Results: Do Websites Influence Your Gaming Purchases?
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OFTEN: If a website doesn't sell me on a game and/or let me get my questions answered, I won't buy it. Period.
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SOMETIMES: A great or horrible website can affect me, but mostly it's not such a big deal.
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RARELY: I don't much follow the hype or care if a company interacts with the public.
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NEVER: I play a game, not a website.
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July 6, 2001, 15:37
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I would buy the game if the website was no good... but the reviews were.
It helps if the website gives the game support after its release- I bought Total Annihilation just because of the game support- and when the support ended, I stopped playing it.
Additional material on the official site merely contributes to the fun of the game.
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July 8, 2001, 01:09
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Born Again Optimist
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I share a similar view: Solid website support can extend the shelf-life of a game far beyond the company's investment in Webmaster time.
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July 9, 2001, 10:20
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King
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Kind of depends where you are aiming at  . I already knew apolyton site from civ2 and CTP. And in the middle of this semester i bougth CTP2, wich i really did not like it at first: bad AI and lots of bugs  . I played only two times and then became one of the civ3 enthusiastics like you guys. But Last month, I discovered a mod made by the Apolyton CTP2's community and now i cant stop playing it. So i conclude that if it wasnt for Apolyton i would never play CTP2 again and never recommed it. So my vote is that the Website is very important to the gamer. And sometimes as impotarnt as the game 
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July 9, 2001, 10:29
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King
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Although i dont think it affects the game selling  . Just affects the way the player plays and for how long he does it.
 In the other hand, affecting these two things it helps the selling of expansions and like i mentioned before the player can reccomend it to others, also helping sellings. 
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July 9, 2001, 21:21
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Born Again Optimist
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Yes, the Web bites both ways. A good presence can do an awful lot of good (assuming a good game to begin with). But a bad presence can do an awful lot of bad EVEN IF the game is good. Which leads us to the Firaxis Website again...
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