AAO25.com
America's Army => General Chat => Topic started by: august on Wednesday, March 07, 2012, 17:40:15 PM
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Hey all
I am sure some have already suggested that, but didn't find any thread about advertising AA2.5, so here it is.
Personally I like AA3, however I also love the AA2 game. And I am happy that there is a community continuing to support AA2. I do think it would be worth to explore advertising possibilities and ways to get more players in here. So here are a few ideas:
-Mac and Linux Players. From what I can tell, Mac and Linux players don't have as many nor as good FPS as PC gamers and as such AA2.5 would still be very attractive to them.
-PC gamers unable to upgrade their computers for AA3 or not interested in playing AA3 or AA2.8.5
-ads in gaming community forums
-paid ads on gaming sites such as mpogd.com and/or mmorpg.com
-word of mouth
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As far as i am aware, every buck that comes from donations goes straight into the running costs for the Assist authentication server.
Anyway everyone having a blog, a website or a forum with freedom of choice regarding banner advertising links could virtually contribute.
I also believe there's a matter of using the Assist logo strictly, as every part of the 2.5 game client including logos and the name itself falls into the specific Terms of Use that you accept when installing AA 2.5 . But it's just my opinion.
P.s. also, i understand your point about performance regarding older hardware. But i'd rather throw an advertising pointing out the best points that AA still has to offer (e.g. free to play, tactical gameplay, ability to run your own home server, custom maps availability, etc).
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The community advertising for players is definitely what is going to work the best
But in addition to that, I think it would be great to get AA25Assist listed on Mac and Linux gaming sites. A few Mac sites that I found on google:
mpogd.com
http://www.macgamestore.com
http://www.deliver2mac.com/
http://download.cnet.com/mac/games/2001-2012_4-0.html
http://www.macgames.info
I will try and submit the game to a few of those
Just submitted to http://www.fpsguru.com/forum/thread/9322
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Hey avguste, we do a lot of work to keep 2.5 alive and fresh with content & bug fixes. You seem to know a lot about where to advertise, why don't you do it? :) It would help us out and it would be your contribution to the whole project. I'm sure we could give you a special icon in-game to show that you've helped out.
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Hey avguste, we do a lot of work to keep 2.5 alive and fresh with content & bug fixes. You seem to know a lot about where to advertise, why don't you do it? :) It would help us out and it would be your contribution to the whole project. I'm sure we could give you a special icon in-game to show that you've helped out.
LOL. I can definitely help with advertising.
I am also thinking about bringing my unit in AA2.5. I am the commanding officer for 3rd Brigade, 82nd Airborne, United Sim Army Teams. We have been supporting AA for many, many years.
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Great stuff :) We welcome you and your unit into our community.
inb4 skrewy says something about "unit" - Archeh
...not worthy of bumping the thread and allowing for non-related discussion, just gonna edit my post in here
Hey can I join in.
*EDIT*
By editing, you bumped it and marked it as *NEW* -_-
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I would like icon too:) hehe, good work I also advertised on rare pokemon site:) at http://peperonity.com/go/sites/mview/rarepokemongames (http://peperonity.com/go/sites/mview/rarepokemongames) I will edit later on i need to add aao25.com and some better description:)
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Great stuff :) We welcome you and your unit into our community.
inb4 skrewy says something about "unit" - Archeh
...not worthy of bumping the thread and allowing for non-related discussion, just gonna edit my post in here
Hey can I join in.
*EDIT*
By editing, you bumped it and marked it as *NEW* -_-
Talking to my commanding officer about that. We will host our AA2.5 server and do a test run before we decide whether to jump in fully or not.
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http://peperonity.com/go/sites/mview/rarepokemongames?act=0-1002619-1331280602_7cdb01 (http://peperonity.com/go/sites/mview/rarepokemongames?act=0-1002619-1331280602_7cdb01)
redid, see ya all in game
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Troll you're a strange guy ..
But nice advertising thought :)
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I just posted a request on the Raptr forum for AA2.5 to be added and tracked
http://raptr.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19083
If you can, it would be great if you would post your support on that thread as well.
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I just posted a request on the Raptr forum for AA2.5 to be added and tracked
http://raptr.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19083
If you can, it would be great if you would post your support on that thread as well.
I don't feel like registering an account there but you may want to tell them that the files are located here:
ANSWER WINDOWS XP: C:\Documents and settings\USERNAME\Application Data\25Assist\
ANSWER WINDOWS VISTA/7: C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\25Assist\
and the ArmyOps.exe for the game is here:
ANSWER WINDOWS XP: C:\Documents and settings\USERNAME\Application Data\25Assist\armyops\system\ArmyOps.exe
ANSWER WINDOWS VISTA/7: C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\25Assist\armyops\system\ArmyOps.exe
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Done.
One thing that will help I think is having Battletracker show the AA2.5 banner on their site or something.
I also just posted at http://www.macgamestore.com/forum/index.php?/topic/2063-americas-army-25-for-mac/
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Talk to Homey. Find his house and ring his doorbell if you can, he almost never responds to anything else.
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The aao2 website on facebook advertise already alot for 2.5
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Talk to Homey. Find his house and ring his doorbell if you can, he almost never responds to anything else.
For this, i would say it is something the admins should deal with.
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The aao2 website on facebook advertise already alot for 2.5
LOL. Advertising is an always continuing battle. Never enough advertising :)
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do we have an Xfire group going on?
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I don't think so.
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I would create one, but I cant seem to find how to do so in this new beta of Xfire
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Just created an Xfire community for AA2.5
http://www.xfire.com/communities/aa25/
As soon as any of the admins join, I will give them full admin access.
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I don't use Xfire and I'm not sure what the purpose is of groups in Xfire, but I joined. I know having the name out there is useful.
Oh cool they have a news page and stuff. Pretty slick Xfire.
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Groups in xfire can be useful to connect players who would normally not be connected. track game time for games and so forth
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Since you seemed to have assumed the media and advertising department, what next avguste? :)
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Since you seemed to have assumed the media and advertising department, what next avguste? :)
Well, next is me bringing in my own unit in AA2.5 effective immediately!!
Separate post on that in a few minutes.
As far as media/advertisement, I emailed Battletracker about them showing the AA2.5 banner.
Already posted in quite a few mac gaming forums and I have the AA2.5 banner as signature in most of the forums I am at.
Now, lets give it sometime and see how the community grows. While I think of other ideas.
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any other sites where we can advertise?
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I registred for bordness and hope to help sometime:) but looks great:)
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any other sites where we can advertise?
really i respect guys who will help army.
I do it already since 2 years.
But you must know some good people with big websites.
Some e-Connection, if you can write really good english with some nice banners, i will help you.
I have good connections, problem is my english and i dont have much time for some banners.
Maybe we can do a advertise team for Amercias Army 2.
AAO2.com was my plan to sponsor players and Teams with some server, to get the competive scene back. After the big fail where aa3 cames out.
Banners on forum? nobody will care, nice idea but ...
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With the new site, I think we will get even more players.
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any other sites where we can advertise?
i spammed xfire and pcgamers forum... and hit up random friends of friends on xfire
http://www.xfire.com/forums/182636/topic/4049760/
http://www.pcgamer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=15722
[04:19] soup: hey bro, dont kno if you care anymore or not, but they brought aao 2.5 back alive with new maps and updates for bugs n shit... also new anti hack software... competition is going again too.. can check it all out at www.aao25.com
[04:19] -)(-PaS-)(-Crimson: whaaaat
[04:19] -)(-PaS-)(-Crimson: serious?
[04:21] soup: just download it and chekc it out, all u need it your old aaotracker account...or u can make a new one, reclaim honor ect ect
[04:21] soup: heres the direct download link, this will auto update everytin, install aao ect
[04:21] soup: http://aa25assist.sourceforge.net/
[04:29] -)(-PaS-)(-Crimson: that sounds cool man. i miss that game so much
*holds hand open and waits for cookies*
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COOKIE :P
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(https://aao25.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdl.dropbox.com%2Fu%2F67808882%2Frandom%2Freddit-AAO.PNG&hash=7b4f6d0f3a3cf6abe37a3c84df447895)
Top post today :o
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Nice name there.
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I like space and stuff. And everything's funnier with porn in it. Copornicus :3
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nice works aj! keep it going
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http://dl.dropbox.com/u/67808882/random/reddit-AAO.PNG
Top post today :o
AJ, thanks :) Looking at site analytics, we got good boost from visitors that day:
http://www.seethestats.com/site/aao25.com
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I think I'm going to post in the larger gaming subreddits too. I just posted it in a little one, only 8,422 people follow it. The Gaming subreddit has almost 1.3 million followers...
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Tbh forum advertising is going to be quite limited in returns (have tried myself and seen little improvement to the Australian community)
It would be a reasonable idea to think of some SEO strategies get some unique traffic through the website and consequently new players. Not an expert in the area but you would have to assume being listed highly for keywords like "free fps game" would do some good.
Another other idea that would help sustain numbers would be getting the files available to download from file sharing/hosting websites i.e http://www.ausgamers.com, www.gamershell.com, http://americasarmy.filefront.com ect. or even tournament websites (TWL, CG ect.)
Edit: Also another cheap way: $75 Addwords voucher (http://www.googleadservices.com/pagead/aclk?sa=L&ai=B9_r5SQNrT8SPCcfzkAWUu70gnNzGwwPcou7WN5zy6qCeAeCnEhABGAEg4_uTAzgAUIqcu-H______wFgpfiRgJABoAHchp_MA7IBD3d3dy55b3V0dWJlLmNvbboBCjMwMHgyNTBfYXPIAQLaAShodHRwOi8vd3d3LnlvdXR1YmUuY29tL3ZpZGVvL2pabkZkaEs3MjhFwAIFqAMBwAMJyAMd9QMAAAAE9QMAAAAQiAYBoAYC&num=1&cid=5GgTavMrAkDyqMdGN5qsBqAR&sig=AOD64_0PG1vaiL_x_XfAVc4VPbj7EoCKcg&client=ca-pub-6219811747049371&adurl=https://www.google.com/appserve/fb/forms/auonline/%3Futm_source%3Drmktdisplay&nm=7&nx=55&ny=82) <if we get a few diff peps to apply for them and set them up for different regions that would be good :P
Just my two cents.
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Nice work.
I also think we should focus on the Mac and Linux gaming communities
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Nice work.
I also think we should focus on the Mac and Linux gaming communities
You could, but it would be pointless. Why focus on such a small minority of players?
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Mac players are numerous. And since 2.5 can be played on Mac.
At the end of the day, it doesn't matter what system they use LOL
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Mac players are numerous. And since 2.5 can be played on Mac.
At the end of the day, it doesn't matter what system they use LOL
Obviously not. Jonny gave out the numbers in an earlier thread, 4 mac players and 4 Linux players. It's kinda hard to advertise to mac users when it doesn't work on Lion, the latest version of osx.
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Wasnt aware of that. I thought any Mac system was able to run 2.5
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Wasnt aware of that. I thought any Mac system was able to run 2.5
I'm pretty sure I remember Jonny saying it doesn't work on Lion. I could be horribly wrong though.
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It's untested on Lion. I believe Jared runs Lion but boots his gaming computer for AA. Bottom line is, if your mac runs Lion, you have an Intel Mac which will dualboot into Windows which is better for the game. That's my understanding anyway.
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It's untested on Lion. I believe Jared runs Lion but boots his gaming computer for AA. Bottom line is, if your mac runs Lion, you have an Intel Mac which will dualboot into Windows which is better for the game. That's my understanding anyway.
Not many people want to pay $100+ for Windows, assuming they're not pirates. :P and if they're eager to run Windows on a Mac, they probably shouldn't have bought a mac.
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na, i have my gaming machine, that i posted the other night.
I have a macbook ( intel ) that runs fine, you get a few hardware lag spikes from time to time, but works.
I also my a macbook pro, but that just for design and coding :)
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Just posted at http://www.gamerdna.com/forumdisplay.php?f=2
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Looks good, thanks August.
I was thinking it might be cool to feature prominent clans in the community. like have a page listing clans with a small insignia next to their name. And you can click on the clan name and you get a page with their basic info. Clan leaders would send us the info. Ideally the system would be automated such as the leagues site, but thats a bit of a stretch right now. I thought it would be fun to feature the info on facebook so people would get involved and stuff.
I got the idea from looking at the info page, since we list PBSS's for servers and such.
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I was thinking it might be cool to feature prominent clans in the community. like have a page listing clans with a small insignia next to their name. And you can click on the clan name and you get a page with their basic info. Clan leaders would send us the info. Ideally the system would be automated such as the leagues site, but thats a bit of a stretch right now. I thought it would be fun to feature the info on facebook so people would get involved and stuff.
I got the idea from looking at the info page, since we list PBSS's for servers and such.
Since I'm too lazy to grab the info, if you grab it, I'll throw up a page for it. (Or I can just give you FTP access...)
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Might be time to build in the cms
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It is also time to ramp up the advertising. There are still plenty of people who havent heard of AA2.5 Assist and who need to hear about it
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Just posted on http://www.tacticalgamer.com/
The thread is being approved so it is not showing yet.