Heroes III of Skill and Luck™

dependence on the site owner

fail

hosting

fail. if the community is not half-dead, like on Bay, then it will gather loot for hosting in a couple of days

tyranny of the managers

tyranny of the managers ~ dependence on the site owner. wordiness, fail.

HP

long to explain. in a nutshell, the site lost to HeroesWorld due to Gorbik's weak competence. if the site has no one to compete with, then there is no one to lose to. if the site goes bad, then the history of Bay's creation will simply repeat itself and everything will be fine

HB

well, it's all clear here anyway.

forces the management of individual platforms to act with an eye on competitors, not to grow stale.

fail. neither Gorbik, nor <whoever was at bay> ever looked back at anyone (see incompetence).

For example, at the moment, the HV orgs are beneficially influenced by Pit, NumOne, Scorpiona, and maybe a couple of other people, so while they keep their finger on the pulse of events, the train won't go off the rails (or will do so slowly). But if for some reason they step away from business or reduce their activity or fall into some kind of heresy, and the policy of online-treshka starts being determined by second-echelon orgs (like R55Max), then a sad turn of events is inevitable.

~ tyranny of the managers ~ dependence on the site owner. a whole paragraph of wordiness, fail. if a small community has crappy admins, then it cannot become a large community. on the other hand, a large community has the ability to weed out crappy admins, see the history with Hacker.

explaining the advantages of a large international community, I hope, is pointless?