by David DeWald | Oct 13, 2010 | Community Management, Random Thoughts, Video Games
My first few weeks at Acclaim were mostly meetings around the launch of 2Moons. Daily conference calls with the CEO and the Marketing Manager. These meetings covered everything from the pricing of the cash shop items to finding voice talent to rework the in-game...
by David DeWald | Oct 1, 2010 | Community Management, Random Thoughts, Video Games
In order to tell my tale at Acclaim I need to take you back, all the way back to 1998. It was that year that a few things came together for me but most importantly it is the year that I started my second fan site. My first was for a game called Creatures; the second...
by David DeWald | Sep 27, 2010 | Community Management, Random Thoughts, Video Games
Now that Acclaim really is gone, absorbed by Playdom into the behemoth that is Disney, many people have asked that I write about my time there. And so I shall… I first want to say that what I will write is my personal thoughts and opinions as told from my perspective...
by David DeWald | Sep 1, 2010 | Video Games
On the 26th Acclaim Games Inc. officially shut down its sites and games. I have to admit that part of me is very sad about this. I loved my time there and I had the pleasure of working with many very cool people. More importantly I’m rather disappointed with Disney in...
by David DeWald | Aug 19, 2010 | Community Management
I’m going to have to disagree with this being a relatively “new” position. Many of us have been doing this for more than a decade. It just seems that main stream companies are starting to see the value, even if there is no visible ROI, of having someone dedicated to...