Game selection #1

Conversation started May 11, 2011 at 19:03.

Fabian

May 11, 2011 19:03

You all probably know about the Community promotion grant and the plan to sponsor games for users here. The idea is to sponsor copies of a brand new high-profile game to users here, in exchange the users should ask & answer questions about this game. We need to decide on the first game we try this pretty soon, we are targeting one game in May/June to try it out.

Ivo Flipse

what games are coming out?

Fabian

The question now is which game to target, we want to target the most promising game, it should be a high-profile release to attract more people to this site

badp

I'd rather target a low profile game that we can become the source of

Fabian

The following games were already suggested:

Brink (May 10th) [Xbox 360, PS3, PC]

badp

We as a community targeted the Portal 2 release without getting any real traction out of it

Fabian

May 11, 2011 19:06

Mortal Kombat (April 19th) [Xbox 360, PS3]

badp

We had a spike of traffic, then it died.

Fabian

The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings (May 17th) [PC]

Ivo Flipse

I still think Mortal Kombat deserves some attention, surely someone wants to know how do do X fatility

Fabian

Alice: Madness Returns (June 14th-NA/June 16th-EU) [PC, Mac OSX, PS3, Xbox 360]

badp

While Alice's is a game I'd play, I question how many questions we can squeeze out of that

Fabian

May 11, 2011 19:07

@badp I still think Portal is somewhat different, because it is difficult to find our answers here just by keywords

Ivo Flipse

@badp You think you won't get stuck?

Fabian

If anyone has any other suggestions, please mention them now

badp

@IvoFlipse Perhaps in hard battles? That's the only problem I can come up with right now, in a linear FPS.

Ivo Flipse

The Witcher is probably an excellent choice, since its pretty open ended isn't it? Or at least gives users a lot of choice with which they might need help

@badp How can I defeat semi-boss X?

badp

Okay, that's perhaps 3 questions. Add the boss, 4.

Fabian

May 11, 2011 19:10

@IvoFlipse I'm biased, because I've registered for the Witcher 2. But I also think that RPGs have a lot of potential for questions here. They often have an enormous amount of content and we can squeeze a lot of questions out of them, see e.g. Fallout New Vegas.

Ivo Flipse

@Fabian I think bias is good, because we want you to actually invest some time in the game and ask as many decent questions you can come up with

I think the Witcher would be a good game for multiple users, as @badp points out Alice and Brink might be better for a single user. Given there's only so many questions you can have during the game

Fabian

@IvoFlipse We have only 3 people registered for it, as far as I remember

Ivo Flipse

well isn't that enough?

unless we need/want more, but then you would have to convince others to pitch in. but given the 'requirements' of asking several questions, they would actually have to want to play the game

Fabian

@IvoFlipse No idea what number we are really targeting, 3-5 sounds good to me, but that is just a pure guess

Ivo Flipse

the most important reason to have multiple users, is so they can answer each others questions and to prevent a single user gets somewhat stuck

Fabian

May 11, 2011 19:17

I missed one more game:

L.A. Noire (May 17th) [Xbox 360, PS3]

Ivo Flipse

oi! beautiful facial animations!

Conversation ended May 11, 2011 at 19:17.

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