effemb said:
drop your line, and leave the plebs to their suffering.
they do it to themselves so theres no need to even feel the pity for em, tbh.
It's not that simple.
Leet gamer kids nowadays play shooters and stuff like Deathmatch Sims, Starcraft, and all such competitive online stuff.
Anyone mentioning mods in reference to such a game (which is
all the kinds of games they know) must be talking about an aimbot, teleport hack, or whatthehellever.
Any
modification that is not expressly sanctioned by
the developers is a cheat and that is all thou need knowest.
So if you want to advertise the FMP / FEMP, you need a simple message that is
not centered on the fact that it
is a mod.
The term "mod" should be downplayed or omitted entirely.
Like... The Floris Compilation or Addon. Sounds a lot more harmless already.
You must advertise something that players want and can relate to.
New graphics, animations, and sounds, new items, new horses, new troop orders and improved troop AI!
If your target audience are bigot native players then you have to speak their language. As with every foreign language, seemingly innocent words can have a negative undertone. Gay means happy or bright... or does it? =P
Unfortunately, the default installation instructions for "Basic" tell the player to
overwrite the native module. (or rather he will find out afterwards)
That's a very bad start as far as customer trust is concerned.
Even when told to, some players just
won't do backups because they know they won't screw up the process. Who would expect a mod to
trash ones ability to play Native?
The installation procedure could be... improved. Made a lot easier (fewer steps) and less geeky. =P
you can lead a horse to water, but you cant make it drink.
Sure can, if you mod it's food and add a lot of salt.