Red99 Stimulus Plan (some constructive feedback)

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Originally Posted by veto [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

There are other websites that host the game..
http://www.warez-bb.org/viewtopic.ph...020&highlight=

that website has tons of links for it.. as for the patching then thats tough shit, you have to do that for any private server

i do agree with you though, but i guess the average person doesnt know how to find things on their own without being handed to them (where to get game)

It's not that people couldn't find it if they tried. It's that it's really not worth it to someone who is just looking for a free game to play and there isn't any advertising being done anyway.

Just looking at the search volume for "free mmorpg", it gets 3,000 searches per day. The search results for that term are almost entirely portal sites dedicated to reviewing, discussing, etc free MMORPGs.

Below is the general forum for the first result for "free MMORPG"

http://www.onrpg.com/boards/free-mmo-mmorpg/

The last post mentioning "project 1999" was 2 months ago and is in a thread about "good PvP" which was started before R99 even launched. No promotion was done there at launch, etc.

If you gathered up the top 100 free MMORPG portals, got project 1999 listed so it showed up on their directories, made posts about it on the forums, etc... THAT is how you increase server population. You could also be paying for advertising on AdWords, free MMORPG site banners, etc. THAT is how you increase server population.

You take traffic from sites like that and send it to a page that says, "The game that started it all is back. Relive classic EQ. Click here to start" and when you click it fucking downloads and all you have to do is click "play" and the game starts up, you register an account, and start playing.

Following this guide I guarantee you the servers would be overflowing within a couple months and new servers would need to be started and SOE would shut the whole thing down.

Seriously though, people need to stop beating the "add item drops! increase exp rate!" dead horse. That isn't going to do a fucking thing.