reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace indie dev AMA campaign - BeamNG interested?

Discussion in 'Ideas and Suggestions' started by pulley999, Feb 1, 2014.

  1. pulley999

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    As the title says, the PCMasterRace subreddit -- a primarily satire (about the superiority of PC over consoles for gaming) sub with some serious posts scattered throughout -- is doing an AMA, or Ask Me Anything, campaign for PC based Indie developers. The sub is a little lacking in quality at the moment (the mods are trying to recover from a recent population explosion) but the AMAs seem to have gone well so far. AMAs can get a little silly/not serious at times, and I thought our friendly developers here at BeamNG may be interested in something a little less serious after the race update crunch is over.
    It would also be a good publicity opportunity as the subreddit has alot alot.png of subscribers interested in PC gaming, games to push their PCs, games that would make a console spontaneously combust if it attempted to run them, and many of whom with powerful PCs, and I'm not sure if there's a ton of audience overlap.

    Just something to consider, is all.
     
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  2. Stormdrain

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    I agree that that sounds like a cool idea, if the devs are interested, of course.
     
  3. moosedks

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    I'd like to see this too
     
  4. CarbineCrazy

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    Agreed. I'd love to see this. +
     
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  6. tdev

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    we can do a AMA at some point, but certainly not under "pcmasterrace" :|
     
  7. TechnicolorDalek

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    I think someone has a Mac...
     
  8. tdev

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    no, i find it just childish
     
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    BeamNG was pretty highly "exposed" on Reddit when it was first released (and likely still fresh in the community's memory as a result) and is still very common around /r/gamephysics. There's no reason whatsoever to do it in pcmasterrace. A meta post in gamephysics of the standard AMA section would be fine.
     
  10. pulley999

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    The only reason I suggested r/pcmasterrace was that, at the moment, it's the most subscribed of any PC gaming specific subreddits I know, and they were doing an AMA campaign at the time the original post was made. I figured the target demographic of the subreddit (people who own high-end PCs and want games for them) would've been a lot of publicity for BeamNG. Yes, the sub is childish, but as far as I'm aware it's got the widest PC gaming audience, even having recently overtaken r/pcgaming in subscribers. Other subs mentioned, like r/gamephysics, while more appropriate, have less subscribers and a mixed PC/console subscriber base. I just figured getting stickied at the top of r/pcmasterrace for a few days would've been a great way to reach a lot of potential buyers, especially seeing as I was only able to turn up two posts about it with Reddit's arguably awful search function it doesn't seem a lot of people there know about it. You also made a point about the childish-ness of the sub, which would sadly probably leak over into this community a bit.
     
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