[UI] Make Game Popular

Darkorbit needs to have Advertisements so it introduces the game to the public so that many people notice that this game is active and alive. Like in the old days when darkorbit had advertising TONS of players was pouring into the game but since they stop their have been less and less players and whats worse they are not even doing anything about it.
So my Idea would be they should Advertise this GAME.

 

This as been said so many times but there are a lot of hoops and hurdles and so many governing body's to deal with also the cost of a 30 second add on prime time air space is astronomical. There is also the marketing to consider and the cost of contracting a think tank to come up with an idea that will attract consumer attention.

 

well if local air conditioning companies and restraunts can get it im sure they can afford it to. also why go for tv? internet is way cheaper and can get to way more people with way less hurdles. and why would they need to hire a think tank? they just gotta find something cool about the game and put that in the video. way less complicated than it sounds

 

It is not that people are not coming to the game it is they are frustrated by being popped trying to figure the game out and say this is crud and leave it in the dust. With the Glitches/Bugs/Issues that we currently have ask yourself this "If you were a NEW player (never played this game before) and saw in Chat all the issues that are being brought up, and being popped by players 20 times stronger than you, would you continue to play this game or find something more enjoyable?" the population decrease is not because of no advertising it is from frustration of players who no longer enjoy the game.

When was the last time you spoke to Real Life Friends about this game in a positive way? If players are happy and talking about D O to their friends it is the cheapest and best advertising B P could get. But when you have Veteran players who have left the game because they have found more interesting games to play, without all of the problems, doesn't this speak volumes for the state of the game?

 

Whats the point of having new players if the same problems still exist such as, power gap, out of date or old data, DO/BP refusal to make LF4's more readily available and dead servers just to name a few.

 

not to mention their total ignorance to what the players want. ive never once seen anything from here brought to the game, also they tend to do things purely for the sake of $, like ship designs, sell a vengie for 40k uri and a 'design' for 300k?! im sorry but never in the world have i seen a paint job cost almost 10x the price of the vehicle even if it does actually change things.

and then when they did come out with new ships, theyre the same price as the outrageous designs, 250k and 300k uri (50k for the near useless spearhead) and the price for the designs are the same.

on top of that, they remove credit ships, then bring them back for $ only. literally no way to get them without $

and you know what they do to bring up player income to balance the exorbitant prices on those AND the upgrades?

NOTHING WHATSOEVER. this is why people keep dropping off the game. tired of grinding to get nowhere

 

The best advertising is the "the word of mouth" tell your friends heck invite your friends to play i've tried, but they don't have the patience that i do.

And if they come on board they get fried by an upper FE. Just saw it yesterday a Leo w; three flaxes gets popped by goli w/ 8 drones.
Give me a break and that guy ruins the game for new pilots ( for what a bit of exp. ) it's not like a fight. He was a fool !

 

ya they need to put some sort of shield where the low level guys won't die by high level ships and players and at same time advertise this game pft

 

As HelpMeHelpYou said, it's basically pointless to have people advertise a game newbies cannot enjoy. Even if it will be advertised in the same exact way it was back in 2009 (I believe), it would of course get a ton of incoming new players, but those players wouldn't stick around after getting bored of being popped constantly and the fact that getting UFE will look like an impossible task to them. If the game isn't enjoyable enough for new people to stick around, then it will need to fix it's own issues first before putting money into advertisements that don't give much back. Otherwise it'll just be a loss to the company, and hell, the current players won't get much back from it either. Well, besides easy victims to pop.
So honestly, Bigpoint just needs to fix their game.

 

also once they realize that to buy fe is about 100$ and to get ufe is closer to 3000$, depending on your luck of course, they really wont want to stick around

 

Very valid points! I like the way you expressed your thoughts.

No one should be able to pop anyone that isn't within 3 or 4 levels of themselves. That has been brought up before but didn't gain any traction for some reason.

It seems as if the information in the forum gets misunderstood or not communicated correctly, because a twitch can come out and either the points aren't brought up or they don't understand what we want. Case in point, wanting the old servers back. They didn't understand that either. The old servers didn't have many of these current problems if any. DO may not have been making as much money but the game was more popular and it was also easier to go to FE and compete with other players.

 

well like i said, consider how normal people get fe, they shoot npcs for uri. well now the top is 10x the price and not worth 10x the effort so people just quit. they need to make more valuable npcs

 

Well they have already saved 50-100k from the lack of JPA so why not pay 100k to PewDiePie to play Darkorbit, instant 4 million views to the game lol.

 

I'm going to see an instant [REMOVED] storm...on D O

 

Years ago i started this game... I just clicked an add and i just registered lol. Its working very well. My idea is they can put adds to Twitch, some channels have a lot of viewers bcz of tournaments.