A good way to advertise Melee: Battlegrounds

[Garrus]

Guys, I will be very honest now.

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First of all: I don't do this to give you an opportunity to
attack my reasoning, but to hand my view on plate, to let you
see, how an average gamer Joe, like me sees the situation.

Everything from the next blank line is solely my own opinion.
Okay, enough of explaining myself

About me:
I like cRPG but I'm definitely not a fanboy.
I did not donate once.
I did not feel responsible for the success of the mod.

My thoughts:
I feel that developers are not really interested in their playerbase's opinions, suggestions.
Don't get me wrong, they were listening, but it would be awesome, if someone came up
with an idea, then the developers would deep hartedly accept that at least one of
their players is missing something, so the topic must be examined.
I'm definitely missing this.

I am missing a feature in the game,
that could make it better, but I'm slowly accepting that it will never become reality,
and it is a disappointment.

(Yes, I know it is strange, but it is disappointing even if I did not donate!
If I felt that my word counts, then I would support the game with a higher chance.
Now I feel I have to repeat myself to avoid confrontations: I'm not writing down
my excuses, I'm telling you honestly how I think, so you can use it for your own interest).

One of the big void I can not understand why is not implemented (yet) is:
>> ingame voice chat <<: to actually talk in the following ways, with different buttons:
  + to guys wearing my banner
  + to guys in my team
  + to guys on the server

Not in an external application, like TeamSpeak. Yes, we were using that with GK, too.
Ingame voice chat would give spirit to the game.. you could yell at people ;p
Can you imagine how different would be for a newbie, when he joins the game, that he could
hear actually people talking ? Just think about your other games, where there is a community.

The thing I want to say is, that maybe you should draw attention to cRPG, again.
An ad-hoc idea: I don't know the legal side of that, but try to sell Warband using cRPG.
Warband is still selling on sales for good reasons, people know about it, unlike about cRPG.
I think with proper marketing, Google Ads, etc. it would be possible to change that.

I dream of a world, where if I ask someone: did you play cRPG, then he answers: no, I did not.
Today, they simply don't know what is cRPG, but they know about shitty, cheaplooking indie games.

Then, when people know about this game, that has a history, then you can tell them that look guys,
we are making a sequel, and there will be a Kickstarter campaign sometimes in the future.
You can start the campaign when you measure a great activity on this forum, for example.

Debate?
Or am I just releasing some strange frustration in a silly way ?

P.S.: Is cRPG still developed yet ?

[Molly]

Umm... Well... Nope? 

[Garrus]

Umm... Well... Nope? 

Nope the whole thing ?

[Grumbs]

Could you sum up what your post is asking in a couple sentences? If its about googe ads I believe they tried it briefly but its too expensive

[Garrus]

Could you sum up what your post is asking in a couple sentences? If its about googe ads I believe they tried it briefly but its too expensive

I meant that because the game is the spiritual successor of cRPG, they should make the mod itself more known, which would
indirectly draw some attention, since you can actually try it, unlike Melee:BG.

[Daunt_Flockula]

At this time, the mod is too tired (or exhausted) to attract more people. It has run its long beautiful course and most veterans are out by now.

On the other hand, people don't really have to have actually played this mod to have an idea. Anybody who has had his fair share of Warband experience (the focal target mass) will already know about how popular and long-lasting crpg has been, even if they may have only played native so far.

[Grumbs]

I do think cRPG is important to some extent to give M:BG some credibility as developers, and to have a fan base to draw from. But I think they have enough stuff with M:BG to separate themselves from cRPG and stand on their own two feet with that. I think the whole "spiritual successor to cRPG" is unnecessary and they'd be better off focussing on the actual unique gameplay they have with their game.

The main influence cRPG has on M:BG is people coming here who have an interest in the new game to see how the community is, to see if its actually played at all, if it gets some support from the devs etc. From that angle the devs should keep spending some time on this community. And having a community around helps to spread the word ofc. Its unfortunate that the last patch is a mixed bag really. The core gameplay isn't necessarily better even though they improved a lot of stuff. They need to scale down the changes a bit. Make people want to retire, make the builds a bit slower etc

Its a lost cause though when it comes to the core M:BG team spending time on this - just let Tydeus and San keep doing what they do and hit the patch button occasionally

[Garrus]

You can see many old players (in rotations) if you join, but most of them play rarely.
I get bored relatively fast, too, with only 24 players online in average, in peak time.
Hopefully population doesn't go below the current level..

M:BG will not be released until 2016, so we may have some time,
later this year, when neither of the games is playable.