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How long will GoI last? What happend to May players?
HamsterIV:
Guns of Icarus is a game where knowledge is power. That much was apparent on my first game session. Any one seeking knowledge these days turns to Google, and Google sends them here. Alternately some people just don't want to learn. There are plenty of other games out there which don't require as much knowledge.
Shukketsushi:
--- Quote from: Redorio diVario on June 28, 2013, 06:31:15 pm ---But, as I said, most people don't know about the forum. The community is not being advertised. How else do you want people to join it? They are not aware of the forum's content, purpose, they don't even know that their account has been created here when they registered.
--- End quote ---
I always direct new players to the forum after I train them up a bit. I let them know that there are all kinds of wonderful things like informative guides, clan sign ups, and fan content.
Charon:
New player has joined GoIO!
New player thinks Hwacha is AMAZING.
New player has had a bad match.
New player thinks Hwacha is OVERPOWERED.
New player quickjoins as anything but an engineer.
New player now thinks the community is bad =(.
New player has found the forums!
New player tells community what he thinks. =(.
New Player: YOU GUYS ARE SO MEAN AND THIS GAME IS GONNA FAIL W/O ME =(
The Community: Hey man! Don't worry, you haven't met all of us. We're pretty nice really =)
New Player: EVENT! CHOOSE YOUR PATH
EITHER
"Oh, awesome!" (Proceed to scream at your newbie crews from now on to go engineer because you don't need a damn gunner on a squid)
OR
"NO NOOOOO THE COMMUNITY IS BAD BECAUSE I SAID >:("
/Guns of Icarus Online natural progression of new players.
Echoez:
Well, I feel lucky I joined the game with a full ship of friends despite them not realy playing anymore.
To humor myself according to the above post, I also thought the Hwacha was amazing at the start and well, it is an amazing weapon to shoot and it does some nasty things to enemy ships. Although we had a ship for ourselves, figured out that having at least 2 engineers is nessesary realy quickly and we just went with that from then on.
I'm still not sure why some of the newer players act like cavemen when told something, it's like the intelligence factor has dropped dramaticaly, I guess there are some realy stupid people out there, humanity never ceases to suprise me. Either that or people are realy bored to learn how to play a damn game.
James T. Kirk:
Well, gamers today are used to either stupidly easy game mechanics (shoot that guy who isn't on your team. Sometimes there's a flag or bomb or something, but you can still win if you don't worry about it.) or a tutorial that holds your hand and tells you each and every thing about the game in 5 minutes or less.
GoI is neither of these, which is why I love it.
Having to ask others how to do pretty much everything strategy wise really adds to the social/teamwork part of the game.
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