DidntKnowJack
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An Experiment: How Important is NeoGAF?
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Ryu bogard
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Wil give the trial a shot if it is available in my region.
Alien Manobo
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Always-honest said:
As a fairly new PS3 owner, the OT influenced me to buy Demon's Souls as my first game.
My friend strongly suggested against it since it was fucking hard, but I still bought it to see what the rave is all about.
Some people say it is their GOTY or GOTG, for me it is my GOTForever.
Thanks GAF!
BlazingDarkness
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The DS thread had like... 2 million views, how the hell did that happen? :lol
Alien Manobo
Member
BlazingDarkness said:
DS thread IS the Nexus.
toythatkills
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Addressing points!
There's a 9/10 review on Eurogamer that just went up, we can't really claim responsibility for that but it's awesome, and a sign of how great this game is.
Let's get people playing it, GAF. Or at least, let's do what we can. Then the next time you want to say how shit the Xbox Indies are because Try Not to Fart is spending its 112th week at the top, at least we'll know we tried to do something.
At the end of the day, I just want people to play the game I love, because I know they'll love it too.
EDIT: TWITTER of course. If you like the game tweet about it, that'll get some more people interested too! Here's a short link to the game on the marketplace to tweet with: http://bit.ly/bGApNk
What else can we do?
What better type of forum to try a project like this?SuperAngelo64 said:
You could get 100 points from that Bing thing...Foxix said:
There's a rating system, where you can rate a game out of five and then it goes into the "Top Rated" list if it's good enough. Rating this game is the best place to start, and you can go rate it even if you haven't bought it, though if you've played the trial, you'll buy it if you've any taste!SapientWolf said:
Possibly, but the problem is that this is a different game to Minecraft, that thread works because there's so many different experiences to talk about, etc, whereas this is just an awesome score attack game. The thread wouldn't live as long. That, and, getting people to click the thread in the first place isn't easy as soon as you mention "Xbox LIVE Indie Games" because to many people that just means "shit avatar games." So I figured, why not try another angle?Rabbitwork said:
Yeah, let's get this back on track! To be honest, this isn't a thread to see how important GAF is necessarily, it's just a thread to see if GAF can make a difference. There's an awesome game here, and it's not doing as well as it clearly deserves to.Kafel said:
There's a 9/10 review on Eurogamer that just went up, we can't really claim responsibility for that but it's awesome, and a sign of how great this game is.
Let's get people playing it, GAF. Or at least, let's do what we can. Then the next time you want to say how shit the Xbox Indies are because Try Not to Fart is spending its 112th week at the top, at least we'll know we tried to do something.
At the end of the day, I just want people to play the game I love, because I know they'll love it too.
EDIT: TWITTER of course. If you like the game tweet about it, that'll get some more people interested too! Here's a short link to the game on the marketplace to tweet with: http://bit.ly/bGApNk
What else can we do?
Black Rainbow
Member
I'd buy the game but my Xbox 360 isn't networked. Neogaf is definitely an awesome community though. I love the BST thread.
Eliciel
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I am one of the more recent members, in fact I'm a junior member and the main reason I wanted to join this forum was Demon's Souls discussion and Killzone 2 discussion + .gif fury.
I think that neogaf has the power to affect the decission of every gamer out there as long as there is any interest to it in general. I think that this forum contributed a lot to the killzone 2 hype if not sales and little bit less but also a lot to the Demon's Souls hype maybe also to the sales. The more people hear from a game the more can be it, logically.
In general I think it's hard to influence people buying games just because it is said that it has some eye stunning graphics or plays incredibly good. But somehow gaf managed to create an enormous hype for Killzone 2. It was everywhere. The hype train did break the light speed barrier. I myself bought both games day 1, because of the news and hype in this forum (DS not day 1 but hong kong import).
So, I personally god RROD 2 weeks ago so only on PS3 now, but maybe a project like this could affect sales. But in the end sales will go up because "we" so the forum member which also post here wanted to try this out. I think mouth-to-mouth always works but that's no evidence for gaf influencing everyone. But this project really sounds interesting and I will tell at leas 5 friends to tell also their friends about it.
In german there is a saying which could be translated to something like:
If we look at the 7 friends/family members that one person knows and then again look at the 7 friends or family members he/she knows. Then we could say that the whole world knows each other.
So yeah, it is a bad translation but maybe some of you understood what I was trying to put through. :lol
EDIT 1:
the twitter action already started for me, you can find me at twitter: Voady
let's change the fate of this game
I think that neogaf has the power to affect the decission of every gamer out there as long as there is any interest to it in general. I think that this forum contributed a lot to the killzone 2 hype if not sales and little bit less but also a lot to the Demon's Souls hype maybe also to the sales. The more people hear from a game the more can be it, logically.
In general I think it's hard to influence people buying games just because it is said that it has some eye stunning graphics or plays incredibly good. But somehow gaf managed to create an enormous hype for Killzone 2. It was everywhere. The hype train did break the light speed barrier. I myself bought both games day 1, because of the news and hype in this forum (DS not day 1 but hong kong import).
So, I personally god RROD 2 weeks ago so only on PS3 now, but maybe a project like this could affect sales. But in the end sales will go up because "we" so the forum member which also post here wanted to try this out. I think mouth-to-mouth always works but that's no evidence for gaf influencing everyone. But this project really sounds interesting and I will tell at leas 5 friends to tell also their friends about it.
In german there is a saying which could be translated to something like:
If we look at the 7 friends/family members that one person knows and then again look at the 7 friends or family members he/she knows. Then we could say that the whole world knows each other.
So yeah, it is a bad translation but maybe some of you understood what I was trying to put through. :lol
EDIT 1:
the twitter action already started for me, you can find me at twitter: Voady
let's change the fate of this gameLike the hat?
Banned
will buy it.
edit: is there a way to find out how many copies different games sold? or was the info just let out by the dev?
edit: is there a way to find out how many copies different games sold? or was the info just let out by the dev?
Eliciel
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-PXG- said:
that's why telling friends and all other possiblities should be considered also. I think the idea behind it was that all of this starts here. Now all parts of this community body have to work. Tell anyone you know, post everywhere you can.
Never forget about that slogan top left: NeoGaf Believe
It's just like the good old-ladys chattering about the new gardener in town and his good-looking body :lol (lol my girlfriend watches to much sex and the city and desperate housewife shit, it is not my fault ^^)
toythatkills
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But we can have an effect on a game, especially when it costs $1, or 50p, or something. We must be able to. There are 60 or so people in this thread, and this is cliche but if all those people buy it, then tell two people, that's not really that much further to go to actually double the sale of this game. And we can do more than that, I'm sure. We've all got friends lists on our 360s, if we have 360s, send messages to people, ask them to give Hypership a go!-PXG- said:
Only if/when the dev released the info, yeah.JodyAnthony said:
Is that Gamepro article on teh intrawebz? I'd like to read it and I don't live anywhere where they sell that mag
EDIT - Never mind, found it -
http://www.gamepro.com/article/features/214737/the-story-of-neogaf/
EDIT - Never mind, found it -
http://www.gamepro.com/article/features/214737/the-story-of-neogaf/
With Eurogamer also promoting Hypership Out Of Control! (9/10) today, the sales should go up for the game. I'll definitely get it myself over the weekend.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2010-09-30-download-games-roundup-review
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2010-09-30-download-games-roundup-review
Ploid 3.0
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Althoran said:
Yep I bought Demon's Souls because of NeoGaf, and the Deluxe edition because NeoGaf said the game would chew me up and spit me out. It did, but thankfully I had the guide.
So in a way we're getting Demon's Souls 2 because of NeoGaf.
Anyway I don't have a 360 so I can't do anything with your pew pew game.
if you want gaf to have a significant impact on the sales of a game you really need to encourage word of mouth. like praising the game on other forums, "liking" the game on facebook if it has a page, if you're a journalist write a short article/review for it (which could then get digged), write a piece on it if you run a popular blog etc.
that could potentially have a much larger impact than simply buying one copy of the game for yourself. virality (that a word?) is the only way a community like gaf can have a significant effect on the sales of a game.
that could potentially have a much larger impact than simply buying one copy of the game for yourself. virality (that a word?) is the only way a community like gaf can have a significant effect on the sales of a game.
If one could harness Gaf's mystical powers (herd of cats?), or if you wanted to test Gaf's effect on the wider industry, I'd like to see it used to perhaps do something relatively simple - attempt to get larger companies to implement a colourblind mode and/or closed captioning as industry standard.
Fantasy Final
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OSTRICHSIZED
Alien Manobo
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Jintor said:
As someone who has a hard time distinguishing red/green, light green/yellow, dark green/brown, red/orange/dark yellow, I support this.
Mailenstein
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and it's origin: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=9791596&postcount=28Fantasy Final said:
OSTRICHSIZED
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKi5-ZSKh24Mailenstein said:
Cosmo Clock 21
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Heard about the ostrich hammer, but man, how did I miss this trailer?Scrow said:
TheRagnCajun
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GAF is a catalyst.
Games that exceed expecations get the praise and recognition they deserve. Games that fall below expectations get the criticism and hate they deserve. The only crime being that perfectly 'good' games can get more hate than they deserve because more was expected of it - and because GAF loves to hate.
So you get this huge volume of hate because a game like Heavenly Sword or Too Human is '7.0' good instead of '9.0' good and because of this most gamers won't give it a chance.
Games that exceed expecations get the praise and recognition they deserve. Games that fall below expectations get the criticism and hate they deserve. The only crime being that perfectly 'good' games can get more hate than they deserve because more was expected of it - and because GAF loves to hate.
So you get this huge volume of hate because a game like Heavenly Sword or Too Human is '7.0' good instead of '9.0' good and because of this most gamers won't give it a chance.
You know, didn't play the game, knew nothing about it until this thread, but I just bought it through xbox.com right now. I'll download it when I get home from work, seems cool.
A friend of mine released an Indie game recently and after seeing all the effort he put into it, I felt bad when he told me how well it performed (it's a fun little puzzle game called Vexis that starts out a little too simplistic but actually gets pretty fun after the first world). I only really started paying attention to the Indie games section when I was looking for his game to pop up and I've actually really like a lot of the stuff there.
So anyway, I'll give this dude my dollar because I know the amount of effort put into it was probably rather great. Plus, I'll contribute to the "GAF Test."
A friend of mine released an Indie game recently and after seeing all the effort he put into it, I felt bad when he told me how well it performed (it's a fun little puzzle game called Vexis that starts out a little too simplistic but actually gets pretty fun after the first world). I only really started paying attention to the Indie games section when I was looking for his game to pop up and I've actually really like a lot of the stuff there.
So anyway, I'll give this dude my dollar because I know the amount of effort put into it was probably rather great. Plus, I'll contribute to the "GAF Test."
I'd say SomethingAwful is more important to sales than GAF. They tend to actually do 'stuff' involving games and not get caught up in sales, people behind the scenes, and not talking about the game.
Take a look at their Dwarf Fortress threads or.. Let's Play in general. I'm sure that's caused more sales than GAF being upset abaout framerate.
Take a look at their Dwarf Fortress threads or.. Let's Play in general. I'm sure that's caused more sales than GAF being upset abaout framerate.
graywolf323
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well I don't even own a 360 anymore but I have some leftover points from whenever I last bought something off marketplace so I used some and picked this game up :lol it's still a sale even if I don't play it right?
edit: or at least I would buy it if Xbox.com's Live Marketplace would let me... keeps saying "Sorry, this page is unavailable" whenever I click download to my 360 to buy it
edit: or at least I would buy it if Xbox.com's Live Marketplace would let me... keeps saying "Sorry, this page is unavailable" whenever I click download to my 360 to buy it
