Oh Tom. How wrong you are about it not being playable before the request :d - I have been a tester for ages and months before I was playing the game absolutely fine.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: 18 July 2012 15:27 To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Road to rage Hi Dakotah, I agree with you. The way this game has been marketed definitely accounts for lack of popularity. The first I heard of this game was Saturday or Sunday. Although I vaguely recall a request for voice actors, but I took that to assume the game wasn't playable and didn't bother checking it out until the author/developer made an announcement. Which brings us to the final issue. I generally respond to posts from game developers, and if someone says so and so has a game for download I often miss it because I don't necessarily read every post on list. Cheers! On 7/18/12, Dakotah Rickard <[email protected]> wrote: > The only reason I think that the game has been quietly present on list > is because of the way it was marketed. This does not reflect, in my > oppinion, poorly on the creator of the product. The trouble is that > the first we heard about the game was that he needed voice talent. At > that point, we only knew about the game in any more detail if we > happened to listen to a couple of podcasts about the game or, perhaps, > saw it on Audiogames.net, if it was posted there. > > The difference here, as I posted previously, is that Swamp was a > playable game, then we received a request for voice talent. It's basic > marketing that is actually quite odd that introducing a product with a > request is not as effective as offering the product then making > improvements based on requests for user contribution. > > Also, the game is still in beta, an alpha-ish beta, and I've only > known about it for three full days and a little bit of today. There's > not much to say about it because it is honestly a concept right now, > and any complaints have already been registered. > > As a final note, I would appreciate it if the developer or at least > someone associated with the developer would announce updates with a > link as does Aprone with his games, because it makes it convenient to > pull the game from the database. > > Other than that, I will make only one complaint. You start out with a > pretty decent weapon. While this prevents camping, which means waiting > at spawn points with a powerful gun to shoot people who arrive on-map > relatively unarmed, it doesn't follow pretty much any other game. The > MK14 is, I think, a battle rifle. It's got the third fastest rate of > fire with pistols and shotguns as the only weapons below it and > several above. I suggest that the player start out with either a > pistol or a shotgun and that they be able to find the mk14, but I also > know that ground-breaking ideas like starting out with a decent weapon > make the game more popular, it's just that there's no point in using a > pistol ever when you have a battle rifle and 20 clips of ammunition > for it. > > As a wrap-up for the list, I say just talk about it. Get excited. The > Road to Rage is a good concept, and it's going to grow. Don't let it > leave you behind. Enjoy it. > > Signed: > Dakotah Rickard --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected]. ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2197 / Virus Database: 2437/5140 - Release Date: 07/18/12 --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
