So the last poll I had received a lot of helpful feedback, so thank you for that! I'm glad I didn't have the ability to create a poll, because the writing out answers is far more informative than simply voting for a category and leaving it at that.

Now, as I'm forming the game premise and idea in my head - it is forming, yes indeed, I have another question that I'm pondering: Games with "Closing Dates" set at the start of the game.

Do you like games that say they plan on opening on such and such date and closing on such and such date?
How long of a set time period is reasonable without being too short or "too long"?
Is it better to just open it and play until interest begins to fizzle?
What sort of "end" events would be great for a closing date?

Now, keep in mind that the end of date CANNOT be the MWPP's leaving school OR the death of the Potters! The game is going to be relatively canon based, not AU, and will have a mixture of the school/out of school to it. Not sure at what point in the characters schooling will the game begin - however, them leaving school is not going to be a predetermined ending date, as I hope to play past that --- and the death of the Potters on the other hand... I don't think any MWPP game around will span THAT many years to pan out them going from school aged to the year that they died. I certainly don't feel up for that adventerous modding commitment either.

So something that happens between when the MWPP characters finish school and the END OF THE WAR would be nice. Without being terribly AU, either. Should there be a big *event* as the end of game... or just an *ordinary day*.. its these sorts of questions I'm pondering now.

For those of you who know the specific idea I'm playing with, please don't mention it in comments. I'm leaving this public so as to allow anyone to comment, and thus, I don't want the actual IDEA out in the open, considering I've seen games be copied/stolen/etc before. It suck for it to be stolen before I even had a chance to form the community!

Otherwise, please give me your thoughts and opinions about games that have a predetermined expiration date? Good? Bad? Depends?