Please promote yourself!!!
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Actually hype can be SC undoing, if things will move current direction. However I have learned not to think about it, because it's ED I care about.
Problem is that as we figured it out, there's nothing to engage with so far - these youngsters are sure in for eye candy, and not imagining things themselves. We could only cause awe with high quality in-game videos. We don't have them yet.
So all we can do is clean up information sources (like Elite: Dangerous Wikia FAQ), follow most popular forums where space sim fans meet. And if there's discussion or interest about ED, give them links, give them references. Work with them. At least that's my game till next year's March.
Aye, I can see what you mean. I think it's generally the fans of the first games that dominate the forums (currently). Any youngsters reading might be put off by the 'feel' of the game at the moment. I'm sure it'll change at release.
I'm hoping to see large cardboard standups in gaming shops advertising ED next year..................
Why ? Well because I want one.
As long as Psykokow was the designer...
One day I will read a post of yours I don't agree with. Not today. One day.I must be a real fuddy-duddy. The SC hype is a turn off. I started watching their latest promo video and had to bail - all that hooting and hollering... turn it down, dammit!
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I must be a real fuddy-duddy. The SC hype is a turn off. I started watching their latest promo video and had to bail - all that hooting and hollering... turn it down, dammit!
One thing SC are doing well imo, is engaging their audience and maintaining momentum. Calm before the storm/softly softly is all well and good for some, but right now I'm bored of the calm and want some storm.
/starts to wander
Those who interested - we are slowly building service for fans - marketing kit with all kind of tools, references, and know hows - how to spread word of ED. Currently efforts from fans are well meant, but it can be improved. For example, it's very important to have one FAQ/Reference page (I'm building one now on Wikia), we are planning to do video series about features (as professionally as we can make it look), and have some other ideas how to spread the word. We also plan to have little documented know how because during KS fan action was a little bit chaotic, and resulted in several bans, for example, in reddit.
Currently we are in QuakeNet IRC channel #Elite-Dangerous, so anyone interested, drop by, I will be there all weekend.
Currently we are in QuakeNet IRC channel #Elite-Dangerous, so anyone interested, drop by, I will be there all weekend.
<Richard Burton Voice>
No one would have believed, in first years of the 21st century,
That we'd ever go back to the timeless worlds of space.
Few men even considered the possibilities of procedural generation,
And yet, across the gulf of Cambridgeshire, minds immeasurably superior to ours,
regarded the space-sim genre with envious eyes; and slowly and surely,
They put their marketing plans together.
</Richard Burton Voice>
Da-da-daaaaa!
Cheers,
Drew.
No one would have believed, in first years of the 21st century,
That we'd ever go back to the timeless worlds of space.
Few men even considered the possibilities of procedural generation,
And yet, across the gulf of Cambridgeshire, minds immeasurably superior to ours,
regarded the space-sim genre with envious eyes; and slowly and surely,
They put their marketing plans together.
</Richard Burton Voice>
Da-da-daaaaa!
Cheers,
Drew.
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The chances of anything coming form Cambridge are a million to one, they said.
The chances of anything coming from Cambridge are a million to one, they said.
And still it came..
I must be a real fuddy-duddy. The SC hype is a turn off. I started watching their latest promo video and had to bail - all that hooting and hollering... turn it down, dammit!
Completely with you on that, but I'm still hopeful there are young folk out there more interested in a game with a dozen background books than a gorgeously-rendered avatar. Just that the ones with imagination are at home reading Lord of the Rings instead of at a convention looking for things to hoot and holler at.
I think we are all helping in our little ways. I have promulgated it around the old fudder network of gamers that I drink with. I like the idea of it being the slightly more reserved older brother of SC tbh. As with others I will probably play both until one comes out on top and I expect that to be ED.
When I first read the post I was thinking I would promote myself from Captain to Major or worst case general.
Major Pom signing orf.
When I first read the post I was thinking I would promote myself from Captain to Major or worst case general.
Major Pom signing orf.
I have been dying to promote Elite through my channel I have 140,000 spaceship fans who would love to know what's going on, but I've found it hard to come up with anything worth creating a video about without just borrowing footage from test reels, there's no resource for me to use to generate content.
Walking around a hangar in Star Citizen has got me over 100k views and the game got thousands of dollars worth of pledges from my hastily put together videos of a pre-alpha spaceship model showcase.
I really want to do a piece on the game but I can't see how at this time.
Walking around a hangar in Star Citizen has got me over 100k views and the game got thousands of dollars worth of pledges from my hastily put together videos of a pre-alpha spaceship model showcase.
I really want to do a piece on the game but I can't see how at this time.
How about images from newsletters? There's lot to chew on, yes, there's no moving pictures there but still...
Images are a hard sell in a video, you're not going to get backers based on static images.
Showing some examples of Frontier: Elite 2 and Frontier: First Encounters and Pioneer mixed with some of the KS videos and newsletter images and explain why this game is gonna be significant might help
I love your channel and see that you're a fan of Space Engine and Elite: Dangerous has some big overlap with it by trying to be scientifically plausible, but this time in one galaxy.
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It seems to me ED's most undersold asset is the design discussion archive. The proposals are pretty verbose and technical, but some of the discussion strikes me as perfect for a Youtube-style conversation.
For example, the latest contacts proposal lead to a big discussion about what a good NPC looks like - an RPG-style helper or a hero of his own story. How about presenting the general question in your channel and asking for feedback? I'm sure you could pull examples from tons of games, and just mentioning ED as the jumping off point would be enough to make people curious. If the format works out, you've got a pretty big pool of questions to draw from