My interest in IF goes all the way back to the 80's when I got my first computer, a 48K Spectrum and I think I've mentioned it a million times before but after having played "The Hobbit" I was hooked on IF and wanted to give it a go.
So like Lazzah, I would say that I write IF because I enjoy writing. I'm sure that someone out there plays my games and I would lying through my teeth if I said that I didn't wanted feedback. But it's not my major thing.
I believe that one of the reasons why there's such a lack of feedback on games here, is that the forum is mainly made for writers and not gamers. The issue about reviews has been up now and again ever since Adrift was first released. I think that we're all ... or most of us, more focused on our writing than we are on playing games. I will admit that I, for one, haven't been too good at writing reviews. I keep promising myself that I'll get around to it and then something else comes up.
I don't know if there is a forum somewhere where players can go and exchange reviews (I've never found it)
One obvious problem I see is that there's a real disconnect between the forum and the main site. New reviews show up there very rarely, but when they do there's no corresponding review on the forum. Nothing, in fact, to indicate that a new review has been posted at all. Sure, people can check the main site as easily as they can the forum, but I'm guessing most people check here a lot more regularly than they do there. I check the forum at least once a day, but I sometimes go for weeks at a time without checking the main site and half the time if a new review is posted I don't even notice. Could there be a thread stickied to the forum to alert people to reviews over there? Could people who write reviews on the main site also post them here? You can reply to reviews that are written on the main site but it’s hardly the place to have a decent discussion about games.
That's not a bad idea. Maybe the forum needs a makeover?
I could open a new thread titled: "How should the forum look" or something to that effect. The only question is, how many would participate? Like David said about this thread:
Well, that topic died a very sudden death. Has no one else got anything to say about why they write IF?
