AjiNIMC - 2:02 pm on May 12, 2008 (gmt 0)

Largest community == Largest marketing team + Largest development team + Largest testing team + ...... == You winning it

Sounds cool and simple, forget it. Creating communities is very very difficult for the second player onwards. We were able to create many successfully as we were (almost) the first ones, be second and you feel the heat. At some places we were pretty late and we had to do a lot of work to get that moving. Also some topics doesn't allow you to create communities easily. You need to get the community pulse correctly.

Also community ensures

1. That you are not way too wrong, people leave you when you go wrong.
   
2. That you have the best marketing team.
   
3. That you are offering some stuffs for free all the time. Communities doesn't stay with purely commercial groups.
   
4. Few more things, will write later :).