Life on the outside
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 4:31 am
This may be of no interest, or of much interest... so hey who cares!
Lately I've been a thinking, and my thinking this time didn't get me in trouble!
I am all grown up now, from when I first started bzflag. My first time was back in '99, and man time has flown.
How did I get here? Well, I was playing another game with my cousin one christmas and he was like "Hey, try this game".
It darn tooting got me hooked. From there I met many lovely folks: SportChick and HighKarateKitty - who taught me GM and L flags and the secrets to the map "Secretplace". From there onto Ducati and learning dodging, onto HIX and avoiding any matches I could by being "afk".
But what I want to focus on is the "other" game.
Maybe some of the reason we dont have a massive flux of new people (I WILL NOT GO INTO THAT DEBATE! ) is because we aren't pulling from other games. Do you have friends that you play a game that you dont so much enjoy, but you play cause they do? Well, maybe theyd do the same for you, then find they enjoy this one. Even if it is straight out of the 90's!
Maybe BZ players find some common games they play (fortnite, etc.) and get together on them. Find friends when doing that, and then share the game. Word of mouth can be a powerful thing. And honestly, probably our best way to market.
This is NOT intended to be a debate, nor do I want it to be a "WHY IS BZ DYING" thread. If you start... well just dont!
This is fully intended to be about bz players finding common interest elsewhere, then sharing a common interest with others.
Maybe you all do this, maybe its a good thought starter.
Anyways, thats all I got.
- Gollum
p.s. I play fortnite(tho I suck at it), league of legends and diablo 3 mostly.
Lately I've been a thinking, and my thinking this time didn't get me in trouble!
I am all grown up now, from when I first started bzflag. My first time was back in '99, and man time has flown.
How did I get here? Well, I was playing another game with my cousin one christmas and he was like "Hey, try this game".
It darn tooting got me hooked. From there I met many lovely folks: SportChick and HighKarateKitty - who taught me GM and L flags and the secrets to the map "Secretplace". From there onto Ducati and learning dodging, onto HIX and avoiding any matches I could by being "afk".
But what I want to focus on is the "other" game.
Maybe some of the reason we dont have a massive flux of new people (I WILL NOT GO INTO THAT DEBATE! ) is because we aren't pulling from other games. Do you have friends that you play a game that you dont so much enjoy, but you play cause they do? Well, maybe theyd do the same for you, then find they enjoy this one. Even if it is straight out of the 90's!
Maybe BZ players find some common games they play (fortnite, etc.) and get together on them. Find friends when doing that, and then share the game. Word of mouth can be a powerful thing. And honestly, probably our best way to market.
This is NOT intended to be a debate, nor do I want it to be a "WHY IS BZ DYING" thread. If you start... well just dont!
This is fully intended to be about bz players finding common interest elsewhere, then sharing a common interest with others.
Maybe you all do this, maybe its a good thought starter.
Anyways, thats all I got.
- Gollum
p.s. I play fortnite(tho I suck at it), league of legends and diablo 3 mostly.