This is a gonna be a bit wall-of-texty so bear with me.
A few (unnamed) people have been complaining about trem dying. While I'm sick of the poorly placed blame and even poorer ability to utilize spell check I do have to agree with them. The fact is trem isn't what it used to be. I was playing this game before MW first started (shudder) and when the BEER clan was the most l33t. There were more servers than one hoped to bother with and many were chalk full of people playing and having fun. Needless to say this was awesome; but enough with my nostalgia induced rants.
My solution is simple and easy to execute:
kill the batman. Community promotion of Tremulous. Sounds to easy? That's because it is! I have a few ideas listed below.
Via other forums.
A lot of us are on more than one forum (probably) and we can easily promote there. I'm not saying creepy promotion along the lines of PMing people to play trem or posting new topics about "this gret game LOLOLOL!1!!11!!1" But something like: Having tremulous related things in your siggy
or bringing it up in relevant conversation and posts. I'll give some examples.
In ones siggy they could have something as simple as this:
What is
Tremulous?
Or something more complicated like a banner or a gif etc.
The point is people would see that and become interested and that's what we want!
Something I want to point out is that the average internet user is a hard, cold and calculating man (or woman) who is immune to the mass of advertising that is so un-sacredly and relentlessly shelled unto them. But we have a secret weapon...Our product is actually free unlike those MMOs and warrock-esque games. This goes into my next example of forum advertising (if you want to call it that.)
Posting about Tremulous.
When one posts about trem I'm not talking about this:
User: BillyBob |Hey guys did you see that new movie about that cat with AIDS?
///?
Posts: 4238 |
Location: In your |
mom lol!!1! |
User: TremulousFan! |GUYS GUYS!!11!!1! PLAY THIS GREAT AWESOME GAME!!111!!1! IT WILL GET YOU LAID!!1
Posts: 3 |www.tremulous.net!!!11!1111!
Location: In my mom's |
basement playing trem!|
User: BillyBob |Ban the troll please.
Posts: 4239 |
Location: In your |
mom lol!!1! |
Because that's what will happen, you will get banned.
I'm talking more like bringing trem up in conversations where people will appreciate it like:
User: BillyBob |Does anyone know a good casual game I should play? I'm kinda bored with all these games that I
Posts: 4238 |have to pay a bunch for and invest a lot of time to get good gear. I just want to have some fun.
Location: In your |
mom lol!!1! |
User: TremulousFan! |There's this free game called Tremulous that I really like (couldn't tell by the name huh?) it's not
Posts: 3 |a pretend free to play like a lot of those mmos out there and it's really fun. You don't
Location: In my mom's |have much to lose because it's free. Here's the link www.tremulous.net.
basement playing trem!|
Or you could start posts in the gaming section of the forums (most forums have these) titled:
Looking for a casual free game?
Or something along these lines.
People
get creative! The internet brought us marketing techniques so broad that it's mind blowing! We just need to use them. Here are some forums that you should start promoting on (besides the ones you're already using)
gamspot/FAQs forums. This is one of the largest PC gamer forums that I know of.
The Penny Arcade forums. Again, a huge online PC gamer base.
The explosm comic forums. More specifically the video game section of these forums. A good place to promote.
The IGN forums Great place for gamers to promote to gamers.
The gametrailers forums Again another gamer forum.
There are a lot more forums out there but these are a good start.
I know a lot of you might say "this will take a lot of time!!11!!1!" All I have to say is: You guys haven't wasted time before? At least this time you would be helping people. So think about it.
-Dude out.
