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Topic: Cheap, easy, productive promotion - AND - Let's target demographics

Use Reddit.com

A well worded submission linking to IC at http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming reaches over ONE MILLION gamers worldwide.

REDDIT does not require any registration to use, beyond coming up with a username and password. This can somewhat be exploited by making two accounts and voting twice. ANy more than 2 and it will automatically offset each upvote with a downvote.

One submission is made to r/gaming on a set date and time, and over the next 12 hours as many people as possible upvote the submission, getting it as high on r/gaming as we can. Even easier is to submit it to r/indiegaming which has 13,000 subscribers and can be frontpaged with as little as 2 dozen votes. R/freegames has about 5k subscribers and can be frontpaged with even less effort.All it would take is a little organization and teamwork (the foundation of IC!) to make this work and get some more page traffic that can turn into new players. Reddit is worldwide and therefore a lot of third worlders on netbooks on sub-AOl dialup who can't even play runescape would be exposed to a free, low tech browser game  WITH A WARM INVITING COMMUNITY.

That is another thing I think we could do to help grow IC that I haven't seen mentioned before - getting into less western markets, such as china and southeast asia and africa. People who are still in 2002 or earlier technologically and don't have the disposable income for studio games, PCs with graphics capabilities, subscriptions or micro-transactions could EASILY be roped into IC. How did I start on IC? There was an ancient laptop set up on the internet in the house I moved into, and I didn't have much money so buying games was out of the question, so I had to find free web based games that would not strain the machine. There are thousands of people all over this planet out there barely connected to the internet who have a ton of time and little money on their hands, people who are either geographically or socially isolated, looking for something to do. Let's get them to do us.

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Re: Cheap, easy, productive promotion - AND - Let's target demographics

Another way to put it:

<HotDogBun> you know how there is (or was) a dutch playerbase, and an aussie playerbase, and americans, and euros, on IC?
<HotDogBun> was there ever a contigent of like russians or chinese or people in africa?
<HotDogBun> Imagine if we could get all the koreans waving at the camera on chatroullette to try IC
<HotDogBun> or chinese too poor to goldfarm WoW
<HotDogBun> All these kids in Africa gettign netbooks from Oprah
<HotDogBun> Goddam thats a great idea
<HotDogBun> we could flood IC with the impoverished yet somehow connected to the internet peoples of the world

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"The desperation in peoples eyes for a job to support themselves and/or their family... is palatable." -Einstein, http://www.imperialconflict.com/forum/v … ?id=157429 (post #18)

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Re: Cheap, easy, productive promotion - AND - Let's target demographics

Lets Aim for Asian!

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Re: Cheap, easy, productive promotion - AND - Let's target demographics

As I said in another topic, more advertising = more, traffic on the website which hopefully over time = more players

Keep Calm and Carry On

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Would be great, hope IC servers can handle a few hundred new players. I got some bad lag at times

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U lag in ic? Haha

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Re: Cheap, easy, productive promotion - AND - Let's target demographics

I think I suggested China in one of the Think Tank forums (for obvious reasons), but you also need to understand which websites people in these areas use. There is obviously a reason that IC is not played in China (because current forums of western media is simply not used in China). Instead of Facebook, they use Renren, and most of their interests are spread through social sites like Qzone (part of QQ which is the equivilant to MSN messenger).

All of these forms of advertising still require some kind of large friend base (which I do not have...I am a sad loser nerd tongue).

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Re: Cheap, easy, productive promotion - AND - Let's target demographics

just flood funny junk and reddit with Rage Comics that subtley reference IC

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http://i.imgur.com/Lpqs7.jpg

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"Do What Thou Wilt" - Aleister Crowley, Liber al Legis
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"The desperation in peoples eyes for a job to support themselves and/or their family... is palatable." -Einstein, http://www.imperialconflict.com/forum/v … ?id=157429 (post #18)

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Re: Cheap, easy, productive promotion - AND - Let's target demographics

you wouldnt want to log into  MW would you?

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lol reddit, i guess its a safer option than 4chan.

<parrot> there is also the odd  possibility that tryme is an idiot
<KT> possibility?
<genesis> tryme is a bit of an idiot
<Torqez> bit?

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Re: Cheap, easy, productive promotion - AND - Let's target demographics

Genesis I am in the MW fam chat, I guess I can help out

"See and Let Yourself Be Seen" - Robin Trower, Little Bit of Sympathy

"Do What Thou Wilt" - Aleister Crowley, Liber al Legis
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"The desperation in peoples eyes for a job to support themselves and/or their family... is palatable." -Einstein, http://www.imperialconflict.com/forum/v … ?id=157429 (post #18)

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