Community is really important this days. Even more when a game complies to be a heavy-multiplayer one.

And to be frank there's only two others forums where I feel like home (one about boardgames, trictrac.net, and the stardock forums)

It would be cool to track the up and downs of such stats.

Managed to get you guys a nice reward. One word: Cravers.

looks like they are

Naaa, not at all!

Boygor wrote:
It's not like EA or Ubisoft are actually trying to discourage brand loyalty or anything with their insane business practices

Alderbranch wrote:
Its not the 85 vs 8500 that makes 85 look small its the fact that a Indie-dev thats just started out has close to 1% of the activity that a mastodon like Ubi has BEFORE releasing their first game. Id like to see Ubisoft or EA match that on a individual-title-level... oh wait a second... they cant... how silly of me.

It's not like EA or Ubisoft are actually trying to discourage brand loyalty or anything with their insane business practices

Raptor wrote:
Ubisoft and EA forums are mastodons with dozens of different game sub-forums, that's why when you put 85 next to 8500 it looks like a huge difference. And it is huge but ES is not competing with Assassin's or with Battlefield. I checked the forums of 3-4 upcoming 4x games and they are not even close to this forum in terms of threads, posts and visits. For all of them there are several trailers released already etc.

So the bottom line is ES, with its single 1.2 minutes of gameplay trailer shown, has attracted and continues to attract more people than the competition. G2G has to be mentioned here as well as offering the people the chance to participate in the creation of the game they are going to be playing is in its own right awesome. So how can so little info (a trailer) do so much? Cause it looks perfect! The music, the atmosphere, the design, this is what first meets the eye. The tons of lore and info in the stickies, the people out there don't know about them so this makes it even a bigger accomplishment to get them here with just one short trailer and it's great to watch their reactions: "Wow that's a huge lore you've got here!", "Great story!", "Awesome art!"... It was the same for me I got here after watching the trailer and after I read and learned more about ES I changed my opinion from "this game is cool" to "no this game is not cool, it's freaking AWESOME!"

The 85 people online record will be crushed to bits even before the game gets released but it is important cause of the numbers Alderbranch mentioned, that's 5% of all the members gathering here in an ordinary day! If you put this number in the Mastodon's scale that would mean 65000 people! This comes to show how interested we are in the game and its development.

And I'm going to say this for a 100th time, cause it's true why hide it , I have no doubts that the game will be a total success and will leave all the competition in the Dust

Its not the 85 vs 8500 that makes 85 look small its the fact that a Indie-dev thats just started out has close to 1% of the activity that a mastodon like Ubi has BEFORE releasing their first game. Id like to see Ubisoft or EA match that on a individual-title-level... oh wait a second... they cant... how silly of me.

careful. too much o' that'll make u go blind :P

Congratulations. Great to see people are becoming interested in this game and the project itself. I am sure that once Endless Space is up for pre-purchase on different channels, the number of forum users will jump up significantly.

Ubisoft and EA forums are mastodons with dozens of different game sub-forums, that's why when you put 85 next to 8500 it looks like a huge difference. And it is huge but ES is not competing with Assassin's or with Battlefield. I checked the forums of 3-4 upcoming 4x games and they are not even close to this forum in terms of threads, posts and visits. For all of them there are several trailers released already etc.

So the bottom line is ES, with its single 1.2 minutes of gameplay trailer shown, has attracted and continues to attract more people than the competition. G2G has to be mentioned here as well as offering the people the chance to participate in the creation of the game they are going to be playing is in its own right awesome. So how can so little info (a trailer) do so much? Cause it looks perfect! The music, the atmosphere, the design, this is what first meets the eye. The tons of lore and info in the stickies, the people out there don't know about them so this makes it even a bigger accomplishment to get them here with just one short trailer and it's great to watch their reactions: "Wow that's a huge lore you've got here!", "Great story!", "Awesome art!"... It was the same for me I got here after watching the trailer and after I read and learned more about ES I changed my opinion from "this game is cool" to "no this game is not cool, it's freaking AWESOME!"

The 85 people online record will be crushed to bits even before the game gets released but it is important cause of the numbers Alderbranch mentioned, that's 5% of all the members gathering here in an ordinary day! If you put this number in the Mastodon's scale that would mean 65000 people! This comes to show how interested we are in the game and its development.

And I'm going to say this for a 100th time, cause it's true why hide it , I have no doubts that the game will be a total success and will leave all the competition in the Dust

I want to establish a new record today, who's in ? :rolleyes:

World Domination ?



AFK putting my Evil Overlord Shirt on!



Anyway, great, great news to read.

Alderbranch wrote:
Well, you have to compare it with the biggest.



I mean you still compare Linux - "The awesome" to Apple - "hey lets rip off our customers with twice the cost-piece of shit again" and Microsofts - "We want world-domination bwahaha"

Well, you have to compare it with the biggest.



I mean you still compare Linux - "The awesome" to Apple - "hey lets rip off our customers with twice the cost-piece of shit again" and Microsofts - "We want world-domination bwahaha"

Ahah I like your numbers, it's like David vs Goliath !

But you did the unforgivable : compare Ubisoft "The Dumbass" and EA "The Evil Killing Machine" to Amplitude "The Allmighty".



Anyway, I'm ready for the little reward from the devs now