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[Egan_BW]

Because truly free games have no advertising budget, pretty much.

[Kagus]

Because truly free games have no advertising budget, pretty much.

Honk

[MrRoboto75]

Because truly free games have no advertising budget, pretty much.

Honk

It was inevitable

[heydude6]

Because truly free games have no advertising budget, pretty much.

Honk

I first heard of Space Station 13 from a fanmade youtube ad that appeared in my recommended for some reason. Thinking it was a new indie game coming out, I clicked on it and it turned out to be really well done and made me want to try the game. Then I went on a bad server and I wouldn't touch the game again until someone on bay12 recommended I try goon instead.


Post before the Ninja:

Yeah, they rely on word of mouth to spread. Best way to get your free game some publicity would be to make it a relatively high quality specimen of a niche taste and post it to forums filled with a dedicated community. RPG maker games come to mind. Traditional roguelikes were also like that though I worry that the prevalence of rogue-lites has made it basically impossible for new roguelikes to get a big following. The biggest newcomer I can think of is Cogmind, but that thing's following only amounts to some occasional mentions in youtube comments (probably in the comment sections of other websites as well), as well as a thread on this forum. It is still in early access though. Maybe when it comes out it might be able to at least sit beside IVAN on the official roguelike pantheon.

I'm not dissing the dev btw, I'm just lamenting how times have changed and how you have to work so much harder now.

[Rolan7]

Then I went on a bad server and I wouldn't touch the game again until someone on bay12 recommended I try goon instead.

I know Goon has come a long way from Poopstation McButthat, and they always had some amazing devs, but jeez I wonder what server you visited.  Part of me wants to guess LLA but that's my own outdated experience.

I'm not questioning you by the way, I basically haven't played in many months.  I know things have changed a lot on all the servers I used to know.  Except probably LLA

[overseer05-15]

Why don't more people play free games? It makes no sense to me that people would willingly pay for stuff, when there's perfectly good stuff completely free.

many free games aren't very good and/or are filled with ads

[TamerVirus]

Why don't more people play free games? It makes no sense to me that people would willingly pay for stuff, when there's perfectly good stuff completely free.

Almost every game is free, if you have the right swashbuckling mindset, yarrr

[pikachu17]

Why don't more people play free games? It makes no sense to me that people would willingly pay for stuff, when there's perfectly good stuff completely free.

many free games aren't very good and/or are filled with ads

The only free games I've played with adds were on mobile.
 Also, many non-free games aren't very good either.
Seriously, all you need to do is look up, "best free games"

[hector13]

Why don't more people play free games? It makes no sense to me that people would willingly pay for stuff, when there's perfectly good stuff completely free.

many free games aren't very good and/or are filled with ads

The only free games I've played with adds were on mobile.
 Also, many non-free games aren't very good either.
Seriously, all you need to do is look up, "best free games"

This finds you the most popular free games, not the best.

[pikachu17]

True, but isn't that true of trying to find the best of anything?
And besides games on such a list are less likely to not be very good.

[pisskop]

Last I checked DF wasnt on too many 'best free games' lists

[Bumber]

EDIT: He did just talk to me, in a casual conversational tone, about how he gets spooked about people suddenly entering his vision when he wasn't expecting it. Apparently almost attacked his psychiatrist because they suddenly entered the room when he was standing next to the door.

Did he explain why he was carrying a sledgehammer into the bathroom?

[pikachu17]

Last I checked DF wasnt on too many 'best free games' lists

Well, when I looked up 'best free indie games' just now Dwarf Fortress was in 5 out of 6 of the top magazine articles I got from the search.
And currently five out of six top 'best free games', too.
So, yeah, tooootally not on many 'best free games' lists.
Admittedly I think some articles were in both searches, and in both 'best free indie games' and 'best free games', only 1 out of three videos included Dwarf Fortress(However, three of the videos could not have possible had Dwarf Fortress in them, as the articles was about best free games released this year, or on steam before Dwarf Fortress was announced for steam).
I wonder how many other games were in 5 out of 6 of those articles.

[Mephisto]

WTF, $my_state. My most promising opportunity to find some locals to play something other than D&D with seems to be SomethingAwful.

Guess I'm a goon in addition to a Bay Watcher now.

[Kagus]

WTF, $my_state. My most promising opportunity to find some locals to play something other than D&D with seems to be SomethingAwful.

Guess I'm a goon in addition to a Bay Watcher now.

Oh hey, neat. If you run into any of the fuckwits who goonclanned on HellMOO or its variants, I'd recommend staying away from the bigoted gits. Unless, of course, you share their sentiments about blind, deaf and wheelchair-bound players being scum of the earth fit only for being tossed on a bonfire.