Lets actively promote the game....heres why. - Page 2

Task Force · 09-11-09, 09:54 PM

naa... eventualy I will tho... (once everyone gets there... mind con... err I mean... new... uahhh... chip...)

pozine · 09-11-09, 09:57 PM

lol

i want my free cookie

Edit: Are we in general topics or SH5 topics? not sure, i'm lost...

GET OUT OF MY MIND!!!

Task Force · 09-11-09, 09:59 PM

cookies are overrated... what you really want is air... thats free... (kind of...)

*edit... you caused me to make anouther edit. :p*
of course this is the sh5 topics... but they dont know that... its a secret...

pozine · 09-11-09, 10:03 PM

Ok!!, no cookie, no talking

see ya

looks like i will not reach 100 post today

Task Force · 09-11-09, 10:05 PM

all you need is... wait a second... your just at 95 and joined at the same timeframe as I did... and im at...

Oah s*** I think im missing something important...

a simple game of hangman shall sove this...

1 word 4 letters... lol
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Arclight · 09-12-09, 02:33 AM

Now that you have all seen the thinking of the average SH player in the posts above, you'll understand how rare these people are.

Probably for the best too. :rotfl:

Seriously though; convince people to play? My brother only plays COD4, friend of his is WoW crazy, my nephew and all his friends are console freaks, my best friend only plays Zelda games over and over, other friend is uber PC-geek but only really plays Arma, the list goes on. I don't even really know any "normal" gamers, let alone potential SH players.

Mush Martin · 09-12-09, 04:16 AM

:rotfl:

As The Choice is you guys making new friends.... oh right ... well nevermind the thread then.

Schultz · 09-12-09, 04:42 AM

No one told me about sh3 or sh4 to play , I started to play because of curiosity , how the games were, to make my opinion, and it seems I liked them.
Don't worry about the teenagers, the will play sh5 , they play because of the curiosity , this is the psihology at their age

Brag · 09-12-09, 07:39 AM

Read the article I wrote in

http://www.useless-knowledge.com

Arclight · 09-12-09, 09:03 AM

You paint a colorfull picture.

Makes me want to fire up SH3 instead of 4 for a change.

pozine · 09-12-09, 09:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Task Force

all you need is... wait a second... your just at 95 and joined at the same timeframe as I did... and im at...

Oah s*** I think im missing something important...

a simple game of hangman shall sove this...

1 word 4 letters... lol
___ a o u b t
|\o
| |
| /\
---
L I F
_ _ _ _

Emm... I say "D"!!!
uhh wait .. no ! "T"
ah ok your dead..."L"I"F"E"

Task Force · 09-12-09, 09:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pozine

Emm... I say "D"!!!
uhh wait .. no ! "T"
ah ok your dead..."L"I"F"E"

lol...

@brag, good article...

Kloef · 09-14-09, 10:52 AM

One idea is to create an official subsim.com SH5 sig,with embedded links to this forum and the official SH5 homepage and use it on other forums,should be pretty effective in getting some new players.

Dont know about copyrights and stuff but something should be worked out by Ubisoft and donated to subsim.com members so we can actively promote the game,for our mutual benefit.

AVGWarhawk · 09-14-09, 11:03 AM

Advertise advertise advertise.....SH4 I witnessed one advertisment in Game Informer. That was it. Got to get it out there however blasting a Uboat game during Super Bowl just may not be the best thing.

09-14-09, 12:35 PM

I'll drop my $0.02 on the bar and say that subsims will always be a relatively niche market because they demand patiance to play them well at high levels of realism. Spending six-hours stalking a convoy to torpedo one ship that you don't even see sink (this in December '44 in a U-Boat) has limited appeal even in the hardcore subsim community but the ability to do exactly this sort of thing seperates sub sims from sub games.

Widening the audience is a great idea but doing so will tend to turn sims into arcade sound-and-light extravaganza. Mainstream = lowest common denominator and the demographics that enjoy games like this:

http://www.theonion.com/content/vide..._game_consists

or this

http://www.theonion.com/content/vide...ts_gamers_play

are where the money is. Next step is an arcade style console submarine game with no simulation value but lots of GTA type action and that would be the death of franchises like the Silent Hunter series.

I suspect that SH5 will end up less of a simulation than either of its predecessors just to ensure a wider initial audiance. That SH5 cook would get real old real fast on a three month patrol to the Cape but might be tolerable on a single mission lasting perhaps an hour while racking up 150,000 GRT in the process. Hope I'm wrong though.

And yes I know those Onion vids are fake but if real either one would probably outsell SH3 or SH4.

Good Hunting

09-11-09, 09:54 PM	#16
Task Force Rear Admiral Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: SPACE!!!! Posts: 10,142 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	naa... eventualy I will tho... (once everyone gets there... mind con... err I mean... new... uahhh... chip...) __________________ Task Force industries "Taking control of the world, one mind at a time"

09-11-09, 09:57 PM	#17
pozine Gunner Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 97 Downloads: 26 Uploads: 0	lol i want my free cookie Edit: Are we in general topics or SH5 topics? not sure, i'm lost... GET OUT OF MY MIND!!! __________________ HELP!! HELP!!

09-11-09, 09:59 PM	#18
Task Force Rear Admiral Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: SPACE!!!! Posts: 10,142 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	cookies are overrated... what you really want is air... thats free... (kind of...) edit... you caused me to make anouther edit. :p of course this is the sh5 topics... but they dont know that... its a secret... __________________ Task Force industries "Taking control of the world, one mind at a time"

09-11-09, 10:03 PM	#19
pozine Gunner Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 97 Downloads: 26 Uploads: 0	Ok!!, no cookie, no talking see ya looks like i will not reach 100 post today __________________ HELP!! HELP!!

09-11-09, 10:05 PM	#20
Task Force Rear Admiral Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: SPACE!!!! Posts: 10,142 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	all you need is... wait a second... your just at 95 and joined at the same timeframe as I did... and im at... Oah s*** I think im missing something important... a simple game of hangman shall sove this... 1 word 4 letters... lol ___ a o u b t \|\o \| \| \| /\ --- L I F _ _ _ _ __________________ Task Force industries "Taking control of the world, one mind at a time"

09-12-09, 02:33 AM	#21
Arclight Navy Seal Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Land of windmills, tulips, wooden shoes and cheese. Lots of cheese. Posts: 8,467 Downloads: 53 Uploads: 10	Now that you have all seen the thinking of the average SH player in the posts above, you'll understand how rare these people are. Probably for the best too. :rotfl: Seriously though; convince people to play? My brother only plays COD4, friend of his is WoW crazy, my nephew and all his friends are console freaks, my best friend only plays Zelda games over and over, other friend is uber PC-geek but only really plays Arma, the list goes on. I don't even really know any "normal" gamers, let alone potential SH players. __________________ Contritium praecedit superbia.

09-12-09, 04:16 AM	#22
Mush Martin Eternal Patrol Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 4,398 Downloads: 4 Uploads: 0	:rotfl: As The Choice is you guys making new friends.... oh right ... well nevermind the thread then. __________________ RIP Mush Tutorial

09-12-09, 04:42 AM	#23
Schultz Officer Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Bucharest - Romania Posts: 237 Downloads: 16 Uploads: 0	No one told me about sh3 or sh4 to play , I started to play because of curiosity , how the games were, to make my opinion, and it seems I liked them. Don't worry about the teenagers, the will play sh5 , they play because of the curiosity , this is the psihology at their age

09-12-09, 07:39 AM	#24
Brag Navy Seal Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Docked on a Russian pond Posts: 7,072 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	Read the article I wrote in http://www.useless-knowledge.com __________________ Espionage, adventure, suspense, are just a click away Click here to look inside Brag's book: Amazon.com: Kingmaker: Alexey Braguine: Books Order Kingmaker here: http://www.subsim.com/store.html For Tactics visit:http://www.freewebs.com/kielman/

09-12-09, 09:03 AM	#25
Arclight Navy Seal Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Land of windmills, tulips, wooden shoes and cheese. Lots of cheese. Posts: 8,467 Downloads: 53 Uploads: 10	You paint a colorfull picture. Makes me want to fire up SH3 instead of 4 for a change. __________________ Contritium praecedit superbia.

09-14-09, 10:52 AM	#28
Kloef Weps Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Netherlands Posts: 360 Downloads: 30 Uploads: 0	One idea is to create an official subsim.com SH5 sig,with embedded links to this forum and the official SH5 homepage and use it on other forums,should be pretty effective in getting some new players. Dont know about copyrights and stuff but something should be worked out by Ubisoft and donated to subsim.com members so we can actively promote the game,for our mutual benefit. __________________ http://www.dutchsubmarines.com/

09-14-09, 11:03 AM	#29
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,253 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	Advertise advertise advertise.....SH4 I witnessed one advertisment in Game Informer. That was it. Got to get it out there however blasting a Uboat game during Super Bowl just may not be the best thing. __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

09-14-09, 12:35 PM	#30
Randomizer Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	I'll drop my $0.02 on the bar and say that subsims will always be a relatively niche market because they demand patiance to play them well at high levels of realism. Spending six-hours stalking a convoy to torpedo one ship that you don't even see sink (this in December '44 in a U-Boat) has limited appeal even in the hardcore subsim community but the ability to do exactly this sort of thing seperates sub sims from sub games. Widening the audience is a great idea but doing so will tend to turn sims into arcade sound-and-light extravaganza. Mainstream = lowest common denominator and the demographics that enjoy games like this: http://www.theonion.com/content/vide..._game_consists or this http://www.theonion.com/content/vide...ts_gamers_play are where the money is. Next step is an arcade style console submarine game with no simulation value but lots of GTA type action and that would be the death of franchises like the Silent Hunter series. I suspect that SH5 will end up less of a simulation than either of its predecessors just to ensure a wider initial audiance. That SH5 cook would get real old real fast on a three month patrol to the Cape but might be tolerable on a single mission lasting perhaps an hour while racking up 150,000 GRT in the process. Hope I'm wrong though. And yes I know those Onion vids are fake but if real either one would probably outsell SH3 or SH4. Good Hunting