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Mr President
03-01-2008, 17:07
Now that we have the game going in the right direction, we really need to push advertising it.

I don't mind rewarding members who get new people to play, so why don't you list some ideas that you think would be a nice reward. And also, let's start listing some different ways to advertise so we can get the name out and get the game going!

Hoebawt
03-01-2008, 17:12
i guess ill launch my advertising campaign.... time to buy the stickers.....

pcgluva
03-01-2008, 18:05
question is do we have money to spend on advertising

Mr President
03-01-2008, 19:07
You give the ideas and the prices and i'll let you know if we have the money :)

Bram Gotink
03-01-2008, 19:26
the problem will be finding people who like TEXTbased mmorpgs...
No one I know does, except the guy who keeps staring at me in the mirror... if the mirror wouldn't be too small... (only 1m90 long ==> too short for me :P)

The thing with voting for the game in turn for turns would be nice
and free

ooga booga
03-01-2008, 19:29
First step: Target Market - Computer gamers who have time on their hands and like war games. This typically includes a younger demographic, mainly males. Approximate age group 16-24.

Next step: How to target these consumers? TV commericials! :dblthumbup:

I will think more about it and try and come up with some better more serious ideas. :)

Bram Gotink
03-01-2008, 19:31
Next step: How to target these consumers? TV commericials! :dblthumbup:


lol




just adds on the internet ?
and like I said before : the voting for turns was a good system

pcgluva
03-01-2008, 20:21
http://www.game-advertising-online.com/

L P
03-01-2008, 20:22
I had an idea for WoW that never got followed up on.

Create some sort of Nation Wars downloadable program and get it posted on www.download.com. That would generate traffic to the game.

Just need some kind of gimmick to get people to the site. Something like a NW Tank Attack game that people have to download and have it link to the site. As long as it's not spyware it would work.

You should also consider getting that game posted on sites like candystand.com, knongergate.com and rustyarcade.com and make liberal references to the NW site.


Also, I suggest a Firefox plug in of some sort.


This sort of stuff is free but would take time and effort to develop.

L P
03-01-2008, 20:24
lol




just adds on the internet ?
and like I said before : the voting for turns was a good system

I disagree. That was tedious crap that didn't really generate traffic because no one went to those sites except people voting for their own game.

Mr President
03-01-2008, 21:13
First step: Target Market - Computer gamers who have time on their hands and like war games. This typically includes a younger demographic, mainly males. Approximate age group 16-24.

Next step: How to target these consumers? TV commericials! :dblthumbup:

I will think more about it and try and come up with some better more serious ideas. :)


Oh that's right.. Ooga you just told me yesterday you were heading for a marketing class... So here is your first main project.. Getting members for NWII lol..

And honestly, people like you are in the best spot to get "target market" people.. You are in college! That place is full of gamers with time on there hands lol.. So Print up some fliers and start posting them all over campus. :p

pcgluva
03-01-2008, 22:43
just lie them anywere people will pick them up

L P
03-01-2008, 23:32
Add some graphics to the game and call it "Open Source Command and Conquer Online Edition" :P

Crimson Shadow
03-02-2008, 20:21
I suggested this once before....but I think this would be a great idea if someone knows how to code something like this. Since I'm usually on gamespot forums this would really advertise the game since there are 1.000.000 people there daily.

Maybe we could include NW, Rank, Nation, Nation rank, etc

This is something from a game I used to play. There are alot of other designs here http://www.rsbandb.com/runescape_skill_signatures-sig if you want to see others.

http://www.rsbandb.com/sigs/sig5/luthien155.png (http://www.rsbandb.com/runescape_skill_signatures-sig)

Missionary
03-03-2008, 05:50
i play torncity, hey have ten of thousands of people on daily there. the game is also text based so they should be into this game aswel. if we could get something to put in sigs/profiles and just put them in ours on other games im sure that would help alot too.

Guy77
03-03-2008, 12:40
if you can give me a banner to use i will pay to have it posted on www.Dominic-Deegan.com

Its a webcomic that has over 1600 strips ( on 1667 today i think) it has alot of dedicated readers, not sure how many play on-line games, but meh, might get some? lol

northbabylon
03-03-2008, 13:34
most people i try to get to play this or even wow they are like "wtf is txt based, game is gay" i think for wow i told about 20 or so people and only 2 played more then 1/2 a set.

Mr President
03-03-2008, 13:59
Text based games is not for everyone.. but then again neither is pizza, but yet if you love it you still tell everyone about the best pizza in town and chances are they will try it....

northbabylon
03-03-2008, 14:39
yea, right before wow was shutdown i had like 6-7 people sign up for that set. And they all enjoyed the 3 days they played -_-.

Guy77
03-03-2008, 15:02
so pres, can you give me a 75x500 pixel banner to advertise with?

his reader base is over 40000 per day, so hoepfully some people will at least check it out

pcgluva
03-03-2008, 19:34
what do you guys think about this
http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t118/x2sean1x/nationwarsad1.gif

Crimson Shadow
03-03-2008, 20:41
I like it....but the join today for free makes it seem like we are a P2P game and are offering a free trial

pcgluva
03-03-2008, 20:43
i figured people see free more usually check it out what do u guys think

heres an edited one *Don't use this one, use the one farther down please*
http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t118/x2sean1x/nationwarsad2.gif

Mr President
03-03-2008, 20:53
i like it!!!

One thing, please nobody copy it just yet. Sean i sent you a PM explaining why..

pcgluva
03-03-2008, 20:58
use this one guys

http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t118/x2sean1x/nationwarsad3.gif

pcgluva
03-03-2008, 21:09
http://www.myspace.com/modules/common/pages/sales.aspx

Mr President
03-03-2008, 21:39
Guys it seems as if Nation Wars is copyrighted.. So we are going to have to shut everything down effected now....


lol jk, but seriously it is copyrighted. Someone contacted me about it last week. Hard to believe they are going to make a fuss over it, but i have received more emails about this issue. So what we need to do is change all our banners so they say Nation-Wars. All this crap over one little - lol.. but i
guess it's not that big of deal.

So please, anytime you advertise anything about the game. Always make sure you say Nation-Wars and not nation wars.

Sean already made the change to the newest sig banner, and when he has time he'll make the rest of the changes (cause of his awesome banner making skills) and i'll post them up.

just thought you all should know...

L P
03-03-2008, 22:20
Change the name to War Nation. Copyright that.

Guy77
03-03-2008, 23:29
Can you post one w/o animation? =P would be mighty obliged