Why are these boards so dead?

[morelyn]

Surely I can't be the only person in the world who has just discovered this game and who would like to read more discussion about it? Didn't Legends bring in any new people?

Or are all Matrix Games forums pretty low volume compared to other game discussion boards?

It seems like 90% of the people frequenting this board are old-time players who don't have much new to talk about...is that about the size of it?

[Sithuk]

The game isn't being pushed through the more main stream distribution routes like Steam. I haven't seen Legends in a retail store either.

The publishers need to get an Ultimate Edition out into the mainstream once the extra content has finished being added with the Legends patches (and the bugs squashed).

Has anyone seen a PC Gamer review of Legends? An ultimate edition distributed in shops might get one.

I think the release of an "ultimate edition" and a publicity push would bring in the numbers of people you mention.

[malkuth74]

Matrix games is a pretty small distributor think they only sell online.

[morelyn]

Good points. Still, Minecraft is a pretty huge hit without any distributor at all, isn't it?

I think we need some of these 120 lurkers to pipe up occasionally. Yes, I mean you! [:-][;)]

[Sarissofoi]

Coz everybody dead.
Everybady dead.

[martok]

Also, everyone's busy playing the game instead of talking about it.  [;)] 

[WoodMan]

Not sure about an ultimate edition, I personally was hoping for one final expansion before that [8D]

[Igard]

Ultimate edition sounds intriguing. Though, I would hope that we get more mod support before that happens.

[ASHBERY76]

ORIGINAL: WoodMan

Not sure about an ultimate edition, I personally was hoping for one final expansion before that [8D]

Yes and Erik hinted at that.

I think the game could continue to build with this game engine for many more expansions and I would happily pay.

I suspect Elliot would want to make a fully 3D DistantWorlds in the future so the game could reach a bigger audience.

[Raap]

Ugh, bigger audience has rarely been a good thing for the quality of a game series in my experience. The more people you have to please, the more washed out you have to make it. Still, I wouldn't really mind an update to the graphics engine, if only for improved performance. There's the matter of how much effort to put into it though, seeing as every hour spent creating and debugging a new engine is an hour lost making additional features or bug fixes which would make the actual gameplay even better.

Steam accessibility would no doubt get them customers that like the genre but aren't currently aware of the game though, but that's probably up to Matrix Games's policy and agreements. And yeah, they definitely need to make an ultimate edition thing. With every expansion you're bound to get less and less customers since it requires the original game and expansions first. Not to mention that the game's expensive and doesn't even have a demo; not a good combination.

[adecoy95]

not dead, i check these boards a few times a day, but if i don't have anything important/helpful to say i usually don't bother posting

[LiquidSky]

It's quiet.

Too quiet.

Speaking of dead, though...I have played many campaigns now and have been consistantly winning. I like to play on a small map with scarce habitable planets since I didnt want to overwhelm myself in detail... I mastered the art of colonizing, moving my fleets around, dealing with pirates....and could usually subdue my nastier neighbours and eke out a win.

So I decided to move up to the large map. Being cocky, I picked a ring galaxy with me in the middle. Started game as the humans (as usual). Everyone starting out. 400 worlds, scarce habitable, scarce aliens. Usual max pirates.

After 3 days of playing (about 24 hours of game time) I own about 10 colonies....3 of them used to be homeworlds for races who foolishly declared war on me...

Then I ran into *THEM*. For those who know..you know..for those you don't you don't want to know. Trust me...they are not nice.
My 6 fleets with almost max fighters tech, almost maxed shields and armour....were no match....but with a gift of ships I thought all was not lost.....
Until they started blowing up planets.

GAME OVER

Let this be a warning to future generations....They came, They saw, they blew me up real good.

[ehsumrell1]

ORIGINAL: LiquidSky

Let this be a warning to future generations....They came, They saw, they blew me up real good.

My sincerest condolences to your former Empire LiquidSky. [:(]

[tjhkkr]

ORIGINAL: LiquidSky
Until they started blowing up planets.

Now you know why I do the Star Wars thing. The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant, next to the power of the force.... [:D]

[Moltrey]

ORIGINAL: Morelyn

Surely I can't be the only person in the world who has just discovered this game and who would like to read more discussion about it? Didn't Legends bring in any new people?

Or are all Matrix Games forums pretty low volume compared to other game discussion boards?

It seems like 90% of the people frequenting this board are old-time players who don't have much new to talk about...is that about the size of it?

Personally, I think it is because everyone is waiting for the other shoe to drop... until a completed, relatively bug-free patch is released, things are gonna be slow. Just my opinion though.

[radwyn]

Yeah I'm new and love this game just discovered it aswell, I was wondering why there is not more discussion

[morelyn]

ORIGINAL: radwyn

Yeah I'm new and love this game just discovered it aswell, I was wondering why there is not more discussion

I do have sympathy for the old-timers, who probably blanche at the notion of yet another "best race" or "favorite weapon" thread.

But I notice that each thread seems to garner hundreds of hits, so I'm wondering who these lurking legions are, and why they don't speak up more often...

(Pssst....hey radwyn, what's your favorite race? [8D])

[jpwrunyan]

Minecraft is a travesty written in java... The worst language for apps since vba.
Play dwarf fortress for gods sakes.

Woops wrong forum.

[Nalim27]

Maybe because of other great games? For example Skyrim, BF3 etc.?

It is looks that you are right - only very low number of new players come here.

[w1p]

I've been playing since about 4 months after ROTS, I don't post often but check this forum pretty much every day in hopes of a new update.

TBH if they released an ultimate edition through the more main stream channels, I think a majority of people would give it bad reviews, because alot of the reviews see nowdays like PC GAMER, ACTIONTRIP, IGN, etc. are so shallow + materialistic, they want to see flashy things straight away and do not pay much attention to content. I always play 1400 15x15 or just 1400 in ROTS with all 19 races and i've won atleast 10 or 11 games (there's been plenty more where i've been demolished!) and I'll happily say this is the best space 4x since moo2.

PS. I think minecraft is a good game fairly well implemented, but actually a great idea. They've created a free FPS called Ace of Spades (google it) that tries to mix minecraft and shooting, which is quite fun for 10 minutes.