Dominions 3: popularity rising?

[Endoperez]

I have a faint idea that Penny Arcade is a webcomic, but I've never heard of mmorpg.com or PoxNora. In that regard, at least, the idea has merit - Dominions fandom seems to have pretty much no exchange between the people who frequent those sites. If there are enough people who would like Dominions in those communities, getting some info to them could help, but IMO good word-of-mouth would be easier to get to work than an ad campaign. I'm not Shrapnel Games though, and they probably know better any way.

[Tenebrion]

http://www.quantcast.com/penny-arcade.com 32,000 unique hits per month

http://www.quantcast.com/poxnora.com 65,500 unique hits per month

http://www.quantcast.com/mmorpg.com 663,000 unique hits per month

http://www.quantcast.com/shrapnelcommunity.com 2,000 unique hits per month

I'm a product development manager and marketing director, so keeping track of website growth and product popularity is sort of my 'thing'. The point of my original post was to say that the game Poxnora, with a very similar potential fanbase to Dominions 3, went from having very few unique hits per month to getting between 50,000 to 100,000 unique hits per month in a fairly short period of time thanks largely to advertisements on mmorpg.com and penny-arcade.com. The reason being is that the main bulk of fans that visit those sites share an interest in deep, strategic fantasy games, often times regardless of graphics.

Pox Nora is a prime example of an alternative turn based strategic game (with dated 2d sprite-based graphics) aquiring broad success. I wouldn't be surprised to see Dominions aquiring similiar success with proper advertising, because :

A. It's different
B. It's fun
and
C. It's deep

[moderation]

Tenebrion said:
http://www.quantcast.com/penny-arcade.com 32,000 unique hits per month

http://www.quantcast.com/poxnora.com 65,500 unique hits per month

http://www.quantcast.com/mmorpg.com 663,000 unique hits per month

http://www.quantcast.com/shrapnelcommunity.com 2,000 unique hits per month

I'm a product development manager and marketing director, so keeping track of website growth and product popularity is sort of my 'thing'. The point of my original post was to say that the game Poxnora, with a very similar potential fanbase to Dominions 3, went from having very few unique hits per month to getting between 50,000 to 100,000 unique hits per month in a fairly short period of time thanks largely to advertisements on mmorpg.com and penny-arcade.com. The reason being is that the main bulk of fans that visit those sites share an interest in deep, strategic fantasy games, often times regardless of graphics.

Pox Nora is a prime example of an alternative turn based strategic game (with dated 2d sprite-based graphics) aquiring broad success. I wouldn't be surprised to see Dominions aquiring similiar success with proper advertising, because :

A. It's different
B. It's fun
and
C. It's deep

Hmm, how did they get those statistics for shrapnelcommunity.com? I don't recall mentioning how much money I make or how many children I have when I signed up.

[Lingchih]

Big Brother man. He's watching you. Everything gets tracked these days.

[Tenebrion]

I'm more concerned with the ethnicity rating. The statistics further solidify my conclusion that the Dominions 3 fanbase is comrpised mostly of number-crunching aliens.

[moderation]

Arr, how did you know??

We are in fact squid-headed, mind-enslaving, number-crunching aliens.

[Twan]

Attiring MMORPG/CCCG fans would have heavy consequences for the poor illwinter team.

It means there would be constant debates about how "perma death" in dominions is bad, why no expansion is planned (free content doesn't count for guys ready to invest money each month to continue to play a game or be competitive in it), why graphics are the same with their top notch one month old computer and ten years old ones, frequent flame wars will oppose the partisans of different evolutions of the game, etc... Nothing is worse than the MMORPG public for game developpers tranquility.

(ps : it's a caricature, but...)

[Ragnarok-X]

PoxNora is like a warhammer/magic hybrid.