Growing the Player Base

(sonsofaugust5) #1

Do you all think it would be helpful if the DBN TS was one of the posts as you login into Dirty Bomb? In-game community is pretty much non-existent, so I thought that if more people knew about the DBN TS, they would hop on to find other players to play with or PUG with. If players are logging in and just doing jobs, the game gets dull pretty fast in my opinion. The only rewards are for missions to get credits to get mercs or nicer skins. Maybe level rewards or a trinket for reaching a certain level would help make it more interesting. Just some thoughts

(bontsa) #2

As long as we don’t have any kind of real community servers (admin rights and all that) around, promoting current attempts of building a community should definitely be advertised.

(blisteringOwlNest) #3

Mind if I ask what DBN TS is? Haven’t heard it before.

(sonsofaugust5) #4

@blisteringOwlNest ts is the dirty bomb teamspeak 3, a voice chat program. A lot of teams that play in dirty bomb tournaments have channels on the teamspeak and there are open channels for everything dirty bomb really.

(sonsofaugust5) #5

@bontsa but how should they do it?

(bontsa) #6

@-BigRed In-game Main Menu advertisements? Tweets & Facebook? Stickying DBN introduction post or similar on forums across the board? Participating in the tournament prices?

Some of these are done already (prices & tweeting of tourneys at least), but still some of them could be done so that they’d be slightly more obvious for your-average-pubber too, not just people who by default look for competitive / organized side of the game on their own already.

Just to mention few ^^ I ain’t creative enough to think of anything more vivid, but I’m sure something could indeed be done to show game does have actual, ableit not yet official, competitive-oriented side. If not only for these fellas who miss 5-man-premade ranked stomping, also for those who’ve been interested in slightly higher quality games but have been put off by ranked mode.

As ranked is, by default, in DB and really ANY fps-game (glances at CS:GO) more of a glorified pub than noteworthy competitive setting.

(sonsofaugust5) #7

Yeah i see what you’re saying. Maybe adding more game modes could make this game a bit more interesting.

(bontsa) #8

Well, content creating is quite of a long process. Advertising existing community involvement would suffice for short-term, and buying time for creating official stuff.

Not saying it shouldn’t be done, at some part along the roadmap.

(torsoreaper) #9

I feel like this is the best PVP FPS out right now, I just don’t know how to get people to know about it. Maybe a weekend on steam where all the champs are completely unlocked and it’s double credits or something. If this could get front page steam coverage, and get people to just try it, I think this game could really get the player base going.

Amerika put a joke about the microsoft clippy guy popping up to suggest dropping ammo. Honestly a tips system would not be bad for very new low level players to learn. I know when I first tried playing, I think it was on Bridge and I was completely lost. I didn’t understand any skills, where I was going, what I was supposed to be doing. The tutorial doesn’t explain EV mode at all. I gave up and left the game. Came back to it like 6 months later because I had nothing else to play and I genuinely gave it a good hard try and I’ve been hooked since.

(ImSploosh) #10

[quote=“torsoreaper;154674”]I feel like this is the best PVP FPS out right now, I just don’t know how to get people to know about it. Maybe a weekend on steam where all the champs are completely unlocked and it’s double credits or something. If this could get front page steam coverage, and get people to just try it, I think this game could really get the player base going.

Amerika put a joke about the microsoft clippy guy popping up to suggest dropping ammo. Honestly a tips system would not be bad for very new low level players to learn. I know when I first tried playing, I think it was on Bridge and I was completely lost. I didn’t understand any skills, where I was going, what I was supposed to be doing. The tutorial doesn’t explain EV mode at all. I gave up and left the game. Came back to it like 6 months later because I had nothing else to play and I genuinely gave it a good hard try and I’ve been hooked since.[/quote]

It definitely is the best F2P PVP FPS out right now, mainly because it’s not even close to being pay-to-win.

Dirty Bomb needs to get on the front page of Steam somehow. I think it would help a lot.

(Mrarauzz) #11

After discord I’ll never go back to anything else lol

(sonsofaugust5) #12

I only see steam sales of games when I log into steam, dirty bomb is free xD

(FalC_16) #13

DB community is still pretty small…and when I saw video commercials running in London underground for World of Tanks I realised why the WoT community is so huge.

We need bigger promotion of this game.

(Shirobon) #14

[quote=“FalC_16;154801”]
We need bigger promotion of this game.[/quote]

I don’t think ads in an underground will boost this game’s popularity.

You gotta promote this where you’ll find lots of gamers, and that’s on the internet, namely sites like PCGamer,G2A or IGN, whatever (just examples).

They’ve already hit most of their target audience with Humble Bundle, Logitech and Alienware cards.

I don’t where else they could try to expose DB.

(HunterAssassin5) #15

When dirty bomb first went open beta, it was the only thing YouTube would talk about for a few days, mostly shitalke about the business model and p2w accusations, the usual for free games that get well known to a point, but in those few days, it seemed every relevant gaming youtuber played dirty bomb. Ster, muselk, frankie1080, angryjoe, totalbiscuit, Robbaz, even frekkin markiplier among others I can’t remember. Dirty bomb should be one of the most well known first person shooters out there, right on level with tf2 imo, but for some reason…its just…not…like besides channels that main dirty bomb like kandyrew, renpsy and others along with dirty bomb’s own channel, I don’t see a whole lot of people making anything dirty bomb.

(FalC_16) #16

that is exactly how I got to know that DB even exists. . I am watching few youtubers who play BF4 and actually it was Xfactor who brought up couple of videos telling that the game is awesome and has got potential. That was on the day when beta became open. From that very day I switched other games for this.

jackfrags is another youtuber who does tons of paid promotions…I think this is also a valid way how to do this…maybe SD could think about this and liaise with some of the most popular youtubers…who knows what might happen.

(Remedica) #17

I personally don’t think the problem is lack of commercials and such, since most of the big gaming youtubers have made reviews of this game and the game still is lacking players.
The problem is the game to be honest, it doesn’t offer that much at this moment.
You grind missions to get credits to buy mercs and rng cases, once you’ve get all the mercs (or those you wanted with cards) you are left pretty much nothing to do, expect to play non-sense pubs without really any rewards. Now since the last update they also took away the ability to play MM with friends too, which will also drive away lots of players.
There’s just few reasons, there’s plenty of more, but I’m not in the mood to write a novel.

Edit: I also feel really bad for AUS/ASIA players since developers decided to take down their MM servers because they don’t matter since they lack of players too. That’s a very good strategy to gain more players - take away their ability to play… :wink:

(Kingsley) #18

@-BigRed I never see you in DBN TS

(HunterAssassin5) #19

[quote=“Remedica;154845”]I personally don’t think the problem is lack of commercials and such, since most of the big gaming youtubers have made reviews of this game and the game still is lacking players.
The problem is the game to be honest, it doesn’t offer that much at this moment.
You grind missions to get credits to buy mercs and rng cases, once you’ve get all the mercs (or those you wanted with cards) you are left pretty much nothing to do, expect to play non-sense pubs without really any rewards. Now since the last update they also took away the ability to play MM with friends too, which will also drive away lots of players.
There’s just few reasons, there’s plenty of more, but I’m not in the mood to write a novel.

Edit: I also feel really bad for AUS/ASIA players since developers decided to take down their MM servers because they don’t matter since they lack of players too. That’s a very good strategy to gain more players - take away their ability to play… :wink: [/quote]

I suspect quite a few people were turned off by angryjoe’s p2w accusations and a bunch of steam user reviews from a while ago.

Also, don’t feel too bad for us here in Asia. Before they cut the MM servers, I never played a single game of ranked because there was no one playing in my region, and I’m used to wrestling with 200+ ping by now.

(sonsofaugust5) #20

DB probably has a marketing team (hopefully). Are they still marketing the game? The Humble Bundle looked like a marketing push. Or is the game just not appealing enough. I think its a great game, but its modes and maps are very limited. As someone pointed out already, there isn’t much to do in this game after you have every merc, unless you wanna struggle for cobalt loadouts, which are just nice skins. I think the competitive idea is great. Having tournaments with prizes would draw more people in, imo.