What can be done to get the explosion of AoS popularity back

[tunaspirit]

redo the steps that have been done to gain this game's popularity back like 11 months ago
(hell, it's almost a year since AoS got released in public)

[Tigershield]

Pay to play,or any kind of pay system is stupid. And this great game will bleed out then.

Offcourse a donation system, might work.

[Frostified]

Here's a small idea for ben:
Listen to a few more suggestions, and try to add less (preferably none) silly things, mkay? :3.

[CalenLoki]

More no CTI servers would help: we have only few of them, and potential playerbase have large chances to think "duck, there is only single game mode"
So more TOW and BABEL!

[Vortex]

It is good that the game is coming up to its 1st anniversary since public release in April. I remember beginning playing in that period of time during the first public release, and the game mode capture the intel though very known in other games as well, under different names such as Capture the flag, was still very enjoyable.

However yes, the intel capturing didn't work correctly enough until later on after other releases were made, but that is the game mode we still mainly play, a year later. Rather than updates for new weaponry and sprinting and all this boyhood game dream features, we need to add the core foundations for the game. More game modes.

I've suggested some in the past such as 'Cops vs Robbers / Prision break', Team King of the Hill, or a game mode where a 'valuable' object is taken from a random point on the map, and the team that holds it the longest wins, either to the limit of holding it or the limit of the actual game time.

[mman789]

They'll be COD Kids looking for another shooter, but they will want it to be *their* shooter, that is, they'll demand changes in game mechanics, which Ben, probably having monetized the game by then, will oblige.

Aren't you an optimist.

The bulk of players near the games launch (including me) were brought here from Youtuber's, so we have two possibilities.
1. Another big Youtuber shows off the game, BAM, huge wave of players.
2. Simple word of mouth. It will be much slower, but still, there's a 50% chance that a new player is not a troll.

Also, faster updates with less content would keep people playing more, so there's that too.

[Tai]

The bulk of players near the games launch (including me) were brought here from Youtuber's, so we have two possibilities.

That's simply not true. The major demographics of our players (barring the ones who arrived from word of mouth) are from Minecraft and Reddit. Though most of them don't even figure out how to use the forums...

[Zinger]

The bulk of players near the games launch (including me) were brought here from Youtuber's, so we have two possibilities.

That's simply not true. The major demographics of our players (barring the ones who arrived from word of mouth) are from Minecraft and Reddit. Though most of them don't even figure out how to use the forums...

Actually, The Youtubers that displayed this game last April primarily did Minecraft stuff, so the people from Minecraft came because of the Youtubers. Also, don't forget /v/.

[AlexKirchu]

Get some famous or big name Youtube people to do a video on Ace of Spades. Like you know how TotalBiscuit is doing his WTF series? He did one for B-F (blegh), but maybe he could also do one for Ace of Spades. Just a suggestion.

[Monsteri]

Many of those people who were there in the beginning probably won't come back, since the game has changed so much, it feels entirely different and plays differently. I know a lot of people who outright loved AoS back then, but just don't care about the game anymore nor play because it's so different (worse in their opinion).

But how to get other kind of players, well, just advertise it. Advertise it everywhere if you really care.
Release the update. Make smaller updates more often.

[USABxBOOYO]

I believe the major thing that needs to be changed is there needs to be an incentive for capturing the objectjive. Nowadays it's all about lone wolf killing, nobody actually goes for the intel. We need to encourage that otherwise this game will become CoD where you have two people going dor the objective and everyone else trying to be MLG PRO.

[MrHaaaaaaxFF]

I believe the major thing that needs to be changed is there needs to be an incentive for capturing the objectjive. Nowadays it's all about lone wolf killing, nobody actually goes for the intel. We need to encourage that otherwise this game will become CoD where you have two people going dor the objective and everyone else trying to be MLG PRO.

yea you re right
but how?

[USABxBOOYO]

I believe Ben should add in some kind of reward, like airstrikes, or maybe just increase the amount of points for capturing the intel.

[MrHaaaaaaxFF]

I believe Ben should add in some kind of reward, like airstrikes, or maybe just increase the amount of points for capturing the intel.

and refill stuff.
reveals enemy? its intel, duh.

[USABxBOOYO]

Well, your stuff will be refilled when you go to the Command Post to capture the intel anyway, so a refill would be redundant. Revealing the enemy was a great perk to having captured the intel. I'm not sure as to what possessed Ben to remove it.