Addressing the Player Problem

[TomUjain]

I've looked over a few other topics that have brought this subject up and would like to pool all the ideas I've found / thought of so far. I'll add new ideas that are posted here.

 

Ideas to address the player problem on Ren-X

• Listing Ren-X on Steam for free ($100 fee)
• Listing Ren-X on GOG for free
• Targetted ads vis Facebook or Google?
• YouTube Promotion via Pug videos etc...
• Ask game reviewers (e.g. AngryJoe) to play the game
• Tournament with small prizes
• Offical Facebook / Twitter page
• Posting on other message boards (with permission)

 

 

[Fffreak9999]

48 minutes ago, TomUjain said:

I've looked over a few other topics that have brought this subject up and would like to pool all the ideas I've found / thought of so far. I'll add new ideas that are posted here.

Ideas to address the player problem on Ren-X

• Listing Ren-X on Steam for free ($100 fee)
• Listing Ren-X on GOG for free
• Targetted ads vis Facebook or Google?
• YouTube Promotion via Pug videos etc...
• Ask game reviewers (e.g. AngryJoe) to play the game
• Tournament with small prizes
• Offical Facebook / Twitter page
• Posting on other message boards (with permission)

I know for a fact that Steam isn't going to happen.

This is due to the agreement with EA (Definately the case with Steam, may need to check about GOG, but suspect it would be the same.)

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Ask game reviewers (e.g. AngryJoe) to play the game

- We did have a few YouTubers review the game early in it's lifetime. TotalBiscuit did a review a long time ago. 

Once the game hits a 1.0 release, then we may see this re-review become a possibility.

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Tournament with small prizes

Who would you expect to issue prizes in these situations, especially since the team cannot profit from the game.

@TomUjain - Many of these has been posted before if you searched in the General forum.

[ShrewdTactician]

Pretty much what Fffreak9999 said is spot on.

If you want to help, the best thing to do right now is to simply raise awareness and help new players.

Here's a list of simple things you can do as a community member.

1. Play the game more. One of the hurdles we have right now is the low online active player count. While the actual community is quite large, its congregating into specific groups/times. New players get turned off by low player counts and don't understand this "grouping", so playing the game more often at more varying times will help with this.

2. Be welcoming to newer players.  This means stuff like:
     a. Allow community members to ask "silly" questions
     b. Say hello to new members and you look forward to seeing them around etc.
     c. Offer to help them with any issues.
     d. Be patient with them

3. Mention the game more, where you can find an excuse to do so. Is there a topic/chat/comments where you can mention your playing a game, or what your favorite game is, then give renegade x a mention. Don't spam, but don't be shy either.

4. Create Media. Stream the game, post youtube videos, create art, etc. Even if you think no one will watch you, the very fact that the game is getting this media will get more eyes on the name renegade X, sites like youtube will pump up renegade x more in related videos if there are more people uploading them, the game will show up more in the stream game lists, etc.

5. On the flip side, support community media creators, watch their streams, like their videos, share their art etc. This helps show a united, strong community and can pump up the game and their media on platforms.

6. Information. There are many sites that deal with information about games, list of games, info about games, etc. Plays.tv, player.me, gamefaq.com, moddb.com/indiedb.com, etc all have their own database of games, media to go along with it, and communities. By making sure that the info is up to date, sharing media, favourit'ing a game on these sites, will again, bring it up in attention.

7. Wishlists. A lot of sites and platforms have lists of games that are along the lines of "my list of best fps games of 2017", etc. Try creating/adding renegade x to these lists. Even site like GOG, and Steam, which we will never be able to actually put the game on, can still have renegade X mentioned in these lists.

8. Forum banners, user bios, etc, you could mention Renegade X in these.

9. Share news, if a new patch comes out, or a cool new map, etc, maybe mention it with your friends, on facebook, in chats, etc.

10. Be creative, there are other avenues to raise awareness of the game out there. Without being spammy, find excuses to mention the game :).