New Gamers, how must we do with them?

[Ceridran]

So how about we make someone incredibly popular on the internet mention this game? But who.....

Then it happened somewhere in 2012 or 2013, and.. uh..

[Emmanuelf06]

Holy crap, thanks for reminding me about that! I'll just repost what I said two years ago:
It's not ENTIRELY dead yet. There's still about 75-100 players total that still care about this game. But yeah, it seems like there are a lot less players than usual. You know what we need? A gimmicky marketing campaign to get the word out about this relatively unique FPS. I think we should make someone popular post more about this game. Hmmmmmm....
I remember Vardoc bringing me in, and I remember the roboenza videos that brought more people in. So how about we make someone incredibly popular on the internet mention this game? But who.....
Better yet, how about we all chip in and see if we can try and spread the word out about the game by making videos and crazy moments in this game, similar to what's been done before. We can get that going, and in the meantime we can try and create a custom server broswer for MM8BDM servers inside the MM8BDM launcher itself so that people aren't required to get doomseeker. Or maybe, we can go to Megaman forums and advertise this game a bit so that people get interested. Worse case scenario is that one of us starts a thread on /v/ and it results in a giant shitstorm.
Don't worry TERRORSphere, I won't let this game die on me. At least, not until AMP2 comes out. After that, to hell with you guys, I'm out of here.

+1 (:

We are a lot of people when it's the night/end of afternoon, not so much but a lot sometimes.
And there is the exams, the school....maybe, we will be more when it will be the holidays.

Anyways, one thing You can know, guys: Capcom let us if we want show megaman games at any conventions.
I asked to Capcom Europe/FR if there can be a problem with copyright when i show a megaman official game or fangame at a convention, they told me, there is no problem!
I can show Megaman Power Fighter if i want.

So, if there is the conventions, you can use some laptops/computers or others to use MM8BDM and show how awesome is this game!

I will do 2 conventions and need to confirm on other for july, september and october. And later certainly

[Magnet Dood]

Wasn't that what the Rolling Cutters for Youtube was for? I mean, Smash is kind of relatively famous in a remote way...

[Balrog]

So how about we make someone incredibly popular on the internet mention this game? But who.....

Then it happened somewhere in 2012 or 2013, and.. uh..

"It was a clusterfuck" is the phrase you're looking for. Imagine what would happen if, say, PewDiePie found this game. Mass exposure like that is just going to result in a brief spike in stupidity levels and maybe 10 new regulars.

asdfghjkl;'

Not everyone lives in France.

Wasn't that what the Rolling Cutters for Youtube was for? I mean, Smash is kind of relatively famous in a remote way...

Wait, that's still a thing?

[Colonel ServBot]

So how about we make someone incredibly popular on the internet mention this game? But who.....

Wait a sec, Didn't PewdiePie get Cutstuff a little bit more famous by playing Ghouls Forest? In one of his videos, he said he didn't play much of the Megaman games. But I think, if the entire community requests that he should play MegaMan 8bit DeathMatch, he might!
And maybe other Youtubers might wanna try it.

[Tengu]

Okay, okay. If a bunch of Pewdiepie fanboys start flooding MM8BDM I don't know how I would even react to that. Sure, I enjoy the embrace of new players. But I think that would turn into another homie incident.

[Jman]

Don't forget though, some people who joined during the homie fiasco did end up assimilating into the community. I can't name anybody, but they ended up dropping their homie identity, and just acting like normal bypassers.

If pewdiepie people, for example, were to flood the servers en masse, I would simply take a break from mm8bdm until it subsides, and the people that want to stay end up staying, and the masses who end up leaving leave.

[Tengu]

That would probably ride on if Pewdiepie did a non-shitty tutorial on using the game unlike Slyfox.

*COUGH*

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"If a server says you need the same WADs to connect, it's a bug so you should just try a different one." - Slyfox

*COUGH*

[Shyster]

Believe me, let's players and internet celebrities work the best. I first got here around V1 from videos by PinkKittyRose, a let's player that you might remember. At some point, I got tired of roboenza or something and waited a year or so before returning under this name.

With video of the game, people will know exactly what it is and if they might enjoy playing it. This probably increases the amount of "good" newbies vs. "bad" newbies that would only have a forum post to go off of. Who posts that video isn't important, every fanbase has good and bad parts, even Pewdiepie's (maybe).

Also:

One huge thing we can do to improve the quality of people coming in is improve the MM8BDM Wiki. Little progress has been made since the project was stickied to the MM8BDM Discussion forums. It's common practice nowadays to look to wikis for information about a new interest. If you ask me, ours makes us look shallow, lacking content and character. It's also not as useful as it could be. We can start by copying all of the content from some of our forums' more useful tutorials into the wiki. We can continue by marking our articles more comprehensive and less personalized, because that turns people off. We can improve from there by adding articles on mods, and... more tutorials! People should be able to scour the wiki and come to the forums with a good working knowledge of everything.

I'm trying, I'm trying. Kind of hard to run a one-man show here. I'm not even halfway done with the vanilla maps.

[-Daiki-TheOni]

This is a bit off-topic but... better places to announce the next expansions like nintendo oficial websites or etc....

[Fyone]

I'm not sure if anyone has said this but, I think a lot of the old community members (I'm not going to name names) are just tired of this game but still find interest in expanding it and only play when they see people that they have high regard for (high-ego forum stalkers). Or old community members are making excuses to not play because of full saxton hale servers which is majorly flawed. Seeing how many people are against Saxton Hale that should be enough to start a vanilla server and I actually often see vanilla servers with "noobs" which makes me wonder if people just don't like facing new players (I personally don't because of the skill difference) but still, saying you don't play because of Saxton-Classes fetishes or Anything-Classes kind of makes no sense especially since a lot of the people on the forums are against Saxton (or at least that's what I percieve) which makes me go back to the point of everyone just being bored of the game in general.

IF a lot of people like to play mm8bdm vanilla and don't play because servers are empty for vanilla and server-camping serves no good then perhaps more vanilla events need to be held to get more people playing, once more events are hosted perhaps more people will fill up vanilla servers on a regular-basis (however IF a lot of people do not find interest in mm8bdm anymore and are just making excuses to not play the vanilla event could just outright fail like others have in the past).

Though I don't think mm8bdm is dying (just look at all the full servers :P), I think just the community is dying to some extent towards playing the game as frequently since half the people that play Saxton-Classes haven't even joined the forums.

[Emmanuelf06]

I'm not sure if anyone has said this but, I think a lot of the old community members (I'm not going to name names) are just tired of this game but still find interest in expanding it and only play when they see people that they have high regard for (high-ego forum stalkers). Or old community members are making excuses to not play because of full saxton hale servers which is majorly flawed. Seeing how many people are against Saxton Hale that should be enough to start a vanilla server and I actually often see vanilla servers with "noobs" which makes me wonder if people just don't like facing new players (I personally don't because of the skill difference) but still, saying you don't play because of Saxton-Classes fetishes or Anything-Classes kind of makes no sense especially since a lot of the people on the forums are against Saxton (or at least that's what I percieve) which makes me go back to the point of everyone just being bored of the game in general.

IF a lot of people like to play mm8bdm vanilla and don't play because servers are empty for vanilla and server-camping serves no good then perhaps more vanilla events need to be held to get more people playing, once more events are hosted perhaps more people will fill up vanilla servers on a regular-basis (however IF a lot of people do not find interest in mm8bdm anymore and are just making excuses to not play the vanilla event could just outright fail like others have in the past).

Though I don't think mm8bdm is dying (just look at all the full servers :P), I think just the community is dying to some extent towards playing the game as frequently since half the people that play Saxton-Classes haven't even joined the forums.

+10000000000000 !!!

Specially for the old mad people who need popularity and who are closed too but do a show off with new players and who are mad with them so badly :/

And yeah, a lot of servers are full again, sometimes!

EDIT:

But remember, how we started: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4JTSnpl ... 20D9BDC7A1  
We didnt know anybody, we were so alone or individual for a lot....We tried to know each other, noob or strong anyways.

And we became... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em_fTMJo ... P30fPwpbJX
(At 11:10 )
A family, because we need each others to play this game....newbie or not.
Only bad guys can kill the atmosphere with hypocrit or mad thing.

Don't forget guys, it's a fangame, if we want a long life to mm8bdm, like a family, we need to be nice and must have a solidarity.

Im sad because no more mmgames (specially HD), with capcom...MM8BDM is really the only game I play, im bored with EXE games..

A noob can be noob, except if he is mad, we must show We are opened and no elitist or wtf we are.

Anyways, long life to MM8BDM (i hope)

[Max]

nsfw

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[18:21:18] Max: you guys wanna know why it's so hard for new players to get into mm8bdm?
[18:21:48] Max: when they join a server they have to listen to frags.zip talking about how his magic serum made giantmega.exe drip stuff out her vagina

not even joking

[Ceridran]

.. Look, they could just create their own private server to do this--

[Orange juice :l]

Or use Skype.
Or IRC.
Or Steam.
Or Gmail.
Or the Phone.
Or anything else.
When you think of an internet chat application, is the first thing in your mind really Zandronum?