Marketing SE V

Ragnarok · #1 February 10th, 2004, 04:34 PM

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Originally posted by dogscoff:
We should all dress up as Phong/ Druk/ EEE and go hand out demo CDs in town centres and games/ sciffy conventions.

It would be hard to dress up as an EEE wouldn't it? I mean little blue bubbles?

gregebowman · #2 February 10th, 2004, 05:57 PM

Well, if it hadn't been for a 3 paragraph review of SE4 Gold in PC Gamer, I would probably never have heard of the game. So the reviews do work. but if people miss that particular issue, or just glance at it, they still might miss this great game. Maybe some small ads might help, but I know that's an expansive alternative. Maybe in the future, when SEV is ready to come one, they could have a review. Then in the future, when MM releases patches, maybe they could be in the form of an upgrade or some such thing that would warrant another review in the magazines? Just a suggestion.

PvK · #3 February 10th, 2004, 08:24 PM

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Originally posted by Ragnarok:

quote:
Originally posted by dogscoff:
We should all dress up as Phong/ Druk/ EEE and go hand out demo CDs in town centres and games/ sciffy conventions.

It would be hard to dress up as an EEE wouldn't it? I mean little blue bubbles?

It could be a "team" costume. Each persson could be hiding inside am opaque blob inside the protoplasm. Or, a single person could hide inside the nucleus. Actually sounds pretty impressive if you could pull it off. Maybe you could get national TV coverage - that's the ticket!!

PvK

Shrapnel · #4 February 10th, 2004, 09:39 PM

Only way I found out about the game was through game reviews. I was looking for a good 4X game and thought Imperium Galactica 2 would be good, and stumbled across SEIV.

Got me interested anyway.

And never underestimate word of mouth. Specially over the internet. It becomes a marketing tool itself.

( check out http://gamerankings.com, good review site. Well, I like it anyway!)

Loser · #5 February 11th, 2004, 01:43 AM

Nope. MLM, all the way.

oogs · #6 February 11th, 2004, 02:07 AM

The only reason I heard about SE4Gold was because of PC Gamer. I read an article about some of the lesesr known publishers out there, and it mentioned a 4x game... so I figured I'd give it a try. $45 and several empires later, here I am!

I think that the best (and maybe even the cheapest) way of getting a game out there is by sending it to reputable sites/magazines that review games(PC gamer and Gamespot for example).

Paul1980au · #7 February 11th, 2004, 02:31 AM

You know i found the shareware Version of SE3 brought the registered Version. Found out about SE4 brought it and love it much improved lets hope SE5 is much more expansive and utilises increasin computer power much more. Until it comes out i would like to see more ongoing SE4 patches and upgrades say up to Version 2.5 ?