Getting new players

Post by **mirror** » Thu May 05, 2005 10:22 am

hi

now that we got a league we also got some activity again in our scene. still, more players would be nice, so how about trying to get new ppl to play aq2 in an active way? especially in the easteuropean countries theres a lot of ppl playing normal q2 already, and i think we could really attract some of them.

i made this thread to collect ideas.. we need:

- reasons we can tell them for starting with aq2
- ways to get in contact with those potential players
- good publicity, media-wise (movies for example)

we can discuss all this and maybe, if we thing we can achieve something, really start such an initiative. i'll start with some of my ideas..

reasons for aq2:

- quite large community for such an old game
- good infrastructure (aq2world.com, matchbots, community channels, teamspeak servers..)
- league
- offline lan-tournament with prize money
- enough servers
- someone still developing the game (r1ch)

best ways to get in contact might be forums? and some aq2-publicity video would be really nice

well just post if you have any thoughts about this.. is this useless? can we achieve something? is this too much work? whatever..

bye

Post by **imeiz** » Thu May 05, 2005 11:45 am

sounds like an idea, i'd be much happier getting more oldskoolplayers than 12yr old "idunnoanything"'s in the scene.

also, for finns, aq2suomi.com in irc and the forums.

sanity · Post by **sanity** » Thu May 05, 2005 2:42 pm

a place where you collect all the movies, alittle more 'clean' list than the forum "MOVIES"

Mutu · Post by **Mutu** » Thu May 05, 2005 2:45 pm

Yeah

angra · Post by **angra** » Thu May 05, 2005 2:52 pm

I'm trying to get my old cs mates to start playing, its not going so well.

I just had a idea, can't someone how is a a good writer, write some sort of promotion column for aq2, and then we all sweep all gameing sites and post it.

The column need say stuff like "Would you like to play a game where the best guy win, where camping is no good. and a game that have the speed of quake but the weapons from cs, and where you don't need a monster computer, how plays online games becuse of the grafics?

The game you are looking for is Action Quake 2.

Something like that.

HAPPY NOW?! =)

Post by **arild** » Fri May 06, 2005 10:01 am

angra wrote: where cheating dosen't help.

Must quote on this one angra

-Arild

Sovnig · Post by **Sovnig** » Fri May 06, 2005 11:32 am

Cheating's helped me fine... I got above 75% accuracy with my sniper now!

ToMMics · Post by **ToMMics** » Sat May 07, 2005 8:27 am

75%?? you should try playing without cheats! you would be more successful

fuct · Post by **fuct** » Sat May 07, 2005 8:47 am

hahaha i love the way at least 70% of all forum topics end up in a discussion about cheating rofl!

W1lco · Post by **W1lco** » Sun May 08, 2005 6:04 am

Sounds like an idea, just that many people is to much concetrated at graphics and so on, damn CS noobs :p, the spirit of AQ2 should be added, i mean.... movement and so on.. ive myself got 3 mates frm school to start playing aq2 there ^_^, and im working on getting em online MUHAHAHA :DD

Sulfate · Post by **Sulfate** » Sun May 08, 2005 6:58 am

my friends dont like aq2 cuz its so fast, and they dont get the hang of the strafe jump... also there are not "n00b" servers... everywhere u are they are playing "godlike"..

blissard · Post by **blissard** » Sun May 08, 2005 7:41 am

sanity wrote:a place where you collect all the movies, alittle more 'clean' list than the forum "MOVIES"

I made this a week ago and sent it to Den. So now it's up to him to add the page to aq2world..