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Facebook, twitch, hitbox can hardly seen as advertising. They are centered around the ingroup and ingroup only.
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- twitter (though I would argue that it gives near to nigh publicity simmilarly to ZK's reddit page)
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I dislike most 'social media' (imo worse than fake download buttons) but I know for sure that all those profiles are ineffective because they get used wrong.
Someone creates an account, spams the profile a bit and get bored. Then they get bored and suddendly it says "Last update: 3 years ago" and the whole thing looks dead.
Second thing is the interactive user interaction experience of social media. Look how the site works and what kind of content is popular. In the hundreds of 'advertising' threads have NEVER seen this done.
Example reddit:
Nobody cares about the tiny subreddit where 1 or 3 players post a list of SF333's livestreamed games.
Reddit is about discusion and dank memes.
Well, mostly there is not much deep discussion.
So post something interesting in one of the gaming subreddits and hope it gets to frontpage.
Or make screenshot of endgame-graph and post it to 'DataIsBeautiful' subreddit.
Or build a penis shaped base and post it to 'funny' or so.
That is the kind of content that gets to reddit frontpage: Quick instant internet amusement. Just has to be interesting and with luck it gets voted to frontpage. The difference in clicks is like factor one million.
Those idiots have attention span of 10 seconds and upvote anything that its either slighly amusing or roughly fits their current circlejerk. Of course there is the luck-factor, too. The first few minutes decide if a post 'blows up' or not.
Either way it is waste of time to post in the tiny basically private subreddit.
Mentioning zero-K in other discussions (about RTS or TA-style games) also has very small effect: Postings that are too deep buried in comments-tree are not read by anyone except the handful of people who are taking part in that discusion.
Twitter:
Is used for checking short updates about current events on the iphone.
Definately not the place for long videos & blabla text.
Tweets only get seen when:
a) There is lots of followers. Do you see a way to get lots of followers? I do not.
b) The tweets uses a #trending #hashtag and gets popular. Do you see that happening? I do not.
So in case of zK the use of twitter is what excactly?
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Wikipedia page can hardly seen as advertising. It provides information I will grant you that, but who browses wiki pages in a search of a new game. |
Good question, what kind of peoplepersons browse wikipedia articles about video games?
To me seems like the kind of people who read wikipedia articles about video games are the perfect target audience.
Are you aware that wikipedia articles are interlinked?
The zero-K article itself is of course not very good (Like all texts) and on its own would not get much traffic.
But have you seen in how many categories and lists spring/zero-K are included? That is the footer of zero-K article:
zero-K is also in the footer of Planetary Annhilation and SupCom games:
For example an german wikipedia-page of Total Annhilation Zero-K is directly mentioned as successor, and other articles mention zk/Spring too:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_strategy#Graphicsquote:
Only in later years did these games begin to use true 3D graphics and game-play, making it possible to rotate the view of the battlefield in real-time. Spring is a good example of the transformation from semi-3D to full-3D game simulations. It is an open-source project which aims to give a Total Annihilation game-play experience in three dimensions |
Some of those articles and mentions of Spring/spring-mods would have (tbh rightly) been deleted a few times but spring-peoplepersons took part in the votes and shifted it.
(Not really neutral but whatever works. Similiar could work on reddit too btw)
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Github and googlecode don't ciunt as means to advertise at all and I can't really see why would they. These are tools for development not for publicity. |
Projects and people on those dev sites are interlinked.
There is even websites that 'rate' profiles of git/svn. For example if there is many comments per LOC then the project gets a better rating. (Somehow the only number from these rating-sites is people on forum were ever interested in is that by some bullshit-math zero-K sourcecode would be worth 456564456564374 billion dollars.)
Beside being a site to manage source code, those sites are as much social networks as facebook or google+
Instead of uploading selfies people upload new code, rest is same.
