Advertising Dawn of Fantasy

[Silkjc]

Hi Reverie.
I have a simple suggestion...This game needs to be advertised more.
I came from another castle building MMO, one where the developers are completely ignoring players and there is much player angst.
There are many people out there looking for this style of game, I have been for several years! Yet DOF was surprisingly hard to find, I only ran into it with a fluke google random click, I'd done searched for MMO style castle builders before in the past and this did NOT come up.

This needs to be fixed. You have a great product, sell it!
Improving the MMO aspects after bugs should be the number one priority, once alliances are you will have entire communities moving to the game as groups, abandoning ship off another game i'll not mention here

For players:
Talk about this game, everywhere. Tell your friends, tell their parents. Every new person is more money to go back into the game!

[Joseph Visscher]

It is a shame, we simply do not have enough money to do such ads like COD MW3 has, with every second youtube video playing a CODMW3 ad I'm sure they spent 2 or 3 times more on publishing the game than actual game development.

Any help is greatly appreciated, youtube videos are very muchso welcome. I actually want to see a youtube dof video challenge, where if you make a DOF related video and it hits various amount of views then you win rewards ingame maybe special units etc.

[Konstantin Fomenko]

Hopefully we will be able to spend a bit more on advertising in April, and yes - it`s surprising at how little people know about Dawn of Fantasy. To be honest we didn`t mind low profile in the past - as we needed a few months to polish the game and add some extra features. With pathfinding update on the way - which opens way for us to finish Alliances and 6 players PvP system - we should be in a good place to start "stealing" players from other 2d MMORTS games.

But for now we have to rely on you - our players to spread the word.

[Sunleader]

Main Problem is still that theres no Trial Period stuff

I relayed the Game to Several of my Working Pals as well as to my Clan and even in other Games Forums


But the main Response is that People dont want to Spend Money without seeing the Game First
Nearly no one will readily pay before actually knowing that they like it
And since its only single People recommending it
its not really enough to bridge that Gap



theres really need for something like 1 week trial keys or something in that direction
Its an incredible different thing if I tell people they need to Buy the Game for playing or if I can offer em a Trial Key to jump in the Game

Alone in my Clan I have 3 guys interested in the Game itself but not going for it since they dont want to buy it before knowing if they will actually play it for a while



Keep that in Mind pls
I know you want to make everything look good before you allow Guests into the House
but this also means that others will not Join the Game and eventually forget it after short time

I still remember my early days
I would not buy anything I didnt test first and thus I often missed out on Games
I found some of them years later and other I.ll most likely never see again
this often happens
You find a Game on some Page looking around for Games like that
you read the description and think
Oh Cool nice Game should test it
Oh too bad cant test it no trial you have to buy before you can play
well then Goodbye .....

I wouldnt be surprised if the number of people who actually saw the game and just didnt join due to the fact they could not test
is already in the thousands

Greetz

[Konstantin Fomenko]

Yeah we are considering releasing a singleplayer only limited demo (castle defend and lay siege), or doing a trial (few hours) for the Online Kingdom with-in a month.

[Blazier]

A 7-day trial (well most trials Ive seen go for 14 days) would go down better then a few hours trial, a few hours does not seem like long enough to truly experience the game.
maybe limit it somehow so they pay to get unlimited time and unlock the rest of the features?

-Blaz

[szebus]

Originally Posted by Konstantin Fomenko

... or doing a trial (few hours) for the Online Kingdom ...

This sounds better as the newcomer can directly interact with other players and see how the castle building works out.