Spinmaster recognizes Bakugan Buzz - Good or Bad?

[Admin]

Received this email today, not really sure if the site would actually benefit or not. Im leary that it is just an attempt to somehow get there corporate paws involved LOL    What do YOU think?

"Greetings from Bakugan and Spin Master!

 

 

Spin Master takes pride in the communities that have come together to
share their passion and enthusiasm of our products. We also value the
community hubs that have been established outside of our own official
forums and social platforms.

 

Your site has been recognized as it has received a considerable amount
of attention and traffic. A respected community site such as your own
should be taken in as family and supported as such!

 

We would like to offer our support as the parent company of Bakugan in
order to help foster your community and promote site growth.

 

With your participation you will receive the most bleeding edge
information and assets on our product that you may use, including:

 

Website Assets:

 

*        Site key art: Spin Master and Bakugan assets
*        Images of currently available Bakugan
*        Bakugan database
*        Episode Journal
*        Ability and Gate Card database
*        Wallpaper
*        Icons
*        Screensavers
*        Product images

 

Updates:

 

*        New Bakugan
*        New/Amended Rules
*        Events
*        Episodes
*        Press releases

 

 

Partnering sites will be promoted on our community site by providing an
'official partner/fan site' link to your home page.

 

The only thing that we ask is that you direct users back to our
community as the official source for Bakugan related information and
community socialization. This should be done by using a provided logo
and directing URL.

 

We look forward to your response as our partnership would be extremely
exciting and rewarding!

 

Best regards,

 

 

Daniel Mitre

Community Manager

Spin Master Studios"

[thebest740gs]

i think its awesome

[BAKUjohn]

YEAH! we will get bakugan updates more often from spinmaster

[Yoshipatrol]

Their benefits don't seem all that great considering most of the stuff we've already got, and the rest is either uneeded or easy to find by just going to the main site (which nearly everyone does anyway)

[pyrusmetru]

no cause this means more spaming noobs

[coolguywarp1]

I think it's good.

[Darkus Brawler]

No, no and more freaking no. Basically what they're asking for is to use this successful forum/site to advertise and boost their crappy one. They realize that this site is more popular than theirs and want it to either 1) pump up their site or 2) lose popularity trying, thus making their site #1. There is nothing they're offering us that we don't already have or have easy access to on their junk site, so what's in it for us? We already get information faster then they do, so we can't benefit from that either. I sincerely hope you didn't agree to this BJ.

-DB

[Kohdok]

"Bleeding edge" as opposed to "Cutting edge"? Sounds fishy.

Yeah, I'd say you need to make some demands back!

Tell them that if they are to partner with us, they have a responsibility to keep their news as up to date as we keep ours (Heck, Baku-Con isn't even on their website yet!) and to have quality control matching that of this site in order for us to consider partnering with them. Also, make it so that they have no say in how our site is run or what the rules are.

Most of the "Benefits" they list aren't really "Benefits" at all. We have most everything they do. Unless they offer something truly concrete, like allow members of our site to participate in things like surveys or suggestions, interviews with Spinmaster employees (real ones, that is), or sanctioned contests, THEN we might be talking.

I think it's true, our site is better and they want to take advantage of it.

[Yoshipatrol]

"Bleeding edge" as opposed to "Cutting edge"? Sounds fishy.

Yeah, I'd say you need to make some demands back!

Tell them that if they are to partner with us, they have a responsibility to keep their news as up to date as we keep ours (Heck, Baku-Con isn't even on their website yet!) and to have quality control matching that of this site in order for us to consider partnering with them. Also, make it so that they have no say in how our site is run or what the rules are.

Most of the "Benefits" they list aren't really "Benefits" at all. We have most everything they do. Unless they offer something truly concrete, like allow members of our site to participate in things like surveys or suggestions, interviews with Spinmaster employees (real ones, that is), or sanctioned contests, THEN we might be talking.

I think it's true, our site is better and they want to take advantage of it.

My thoughts exactly. I think they should also offer up some prizes for our own contests that way we don't have to reach out of pocket AND people who actually deserve a prize can win instead of it being random.

And like I said already and Kohdok emphasized on, their benefits don't help us at all.

[clonetos]

"Bleeding edge" as opposed to "Cutting edge"? Sounds fishy.

Yeah, I'd say you need to make some demands back!

Tell them that if they are to partner with us, they have a responsibility to keep their news as up to date as we keep ours (Heck, Baku-Con isn't even on their website yet!) and to have quality control matching that of this site in order for us to consider partnering with them. Also, make it so that they have no say in how our site is run or what the rules are.

Most of the "Benefits" they list aren't really "Benefits" at all. We have most everything they do. Unless they offer something truly concrete, like allow members of our site to participate in things like surveys or suggestions, interviews with Spinmaster employees (real ones, that is), or sanctioned contests, THEN we might be talking.

I think it's true, our site is better and they want to take advantage of it.

[Yoshipatrol]

*        Site key art: Spin Master and Bakugan assets -- What?
*        Images of currently available Bakugan -- Have them
*        Bakugan database -- Have it...
*        Episode Journal -- I could make one (as suggested already)
*        Ability and Gate Card database -- Have it
*        Wallpaper -- Don't need/can take off main site
*        Icons -- Don't need/can take off main site
*        Screensavers -- Don't need/can take off main site
*        Product images -- Got them

 

Updates:

 

*        New Bakugan -- NEW Bakugan? We've seen them before the community even put them up...
*        New/Amended Rules -- Its not hard to go to their FAQ,
*        Events -- Once again, main site has the answers
*        Episodes -- Have them form youtube
*        Press releases -- What?


The whole wallpaper, icons, and screensaver thing made me think that they thing the site is run by a 10 year old... Because 1) we can take them off of the main site, 2) A crap load of our members cna make them theirselves...


BTW Admin, I'll probably actually get started on the episode thing soon, sorry about that long delay, and I'd have put my other article up but you never got back to me and now Omegadragonoid pretty much put the EXACT same thing up...

[clonetos]

um so what should we do?

[Darkus Brawler]

Reject the offer. Simple.

[clonetos]

maybe we can make some DEAMNDS and then we see if they do it if they do we accept and if they dont uh hem REJECTED!

[Bakuexpert]

MAYBE WE CAN ASK THEM TO MAKE A WANTU!!!!