Lets all promote Red Orchestra!

[myzko]

By starting to use Xfire so it comes into the TOP10
www.xfire.com

These are the current stats:


Wow, oblivion! And it's singleplayer huh?

1

World of Warcraft 4,600,054
2

Counter-Strike Source 4,503,632
3

Call of Duty 2 Multiplayer 2,420,467
4

Counter-Strike 1.6 1,918,574
5

Battlefield 2 1,455,322
6

Oblivion 849,992
7

Guild Wars 747,102
8

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory 696,189
9

Call of Duty Multiplayer 468,266
10

Warcraft III - The Frozen Throne 465,913

 

[Feldwebel Crin]

It'll be hard to topple the deadly addictive drug of WoW. Too many people play it.

ET's still on there? Wow, I still have that game... for free!

 

[Captain Data]

Too bad old CoD lost lots of players to CoD 2. I think, CoD UO was way better (even more with GFM, but thats another story), because there was no pumpgun. There was a sprint-function, you could choose firemode, Vehicles etc ... good ol' CoD UO. CoD 2 is just noobish arcade.

 

[Oberst Freitag]

CoD>CoD UO>CoD2

and i dont think RO will ever get on the top 10...there just doesnt seem to be enough people

 

[Captain Data]

Its way to specific to attract more people.

The average Player looks for fast, easy action. Just point your gun in the right direction, hit spastically your mousebutton and fragg some guy. Thats the secret of such succesful games like *spits* Counter Strike.

CoD:UO is atm my all-time-favorite, just because its not too arcadish and not too realistic. Its a nice compromis betwen both worlds, and I love it. Even more with Mods.

CoD wasn't that good (no Vehicles, only americans and germans were well balanced, Noob-PPSH) and CoD 2 is just awful, because most of the real useful features were removed to have it "X-Box 360 compatible". Heck with it: I don't wanna play a damn ported Game for a Console with some cripplepad to play !)

RO:O is good for realism-fans (I love it, but some things I really would see changed, but thats another story). Its really good and I can't wait for a similar Mod / Game for the Westfront.

 

[Oberst Freitag]

CoD required the most skill than the other games...and the vehicles were atrocious in UO

 

[myzko]

Its way to specific to attract more people.

The average Player looks for fast, easy action. Just point your gun in the right direction, hit spastically your mousebutton and fragg some guy. Thats the secret of such succesful games like *spits* Counter Strike.

CoD:UO is atm my all-time-favorite, just because its not too arcadish and not too realistic. Its a nice compromis betwen both worlds, and I love it. Even more with Mods.

CoD wasn't that good (no Vehicles, only americans and germans were well balanced, Noob-PPSH) and CoD 2 is just awful, because most of the real useful features were removed to have it "X-Box 360 compatible". Heck with it: I don't wanna play a damn ported Game for a Console with some cripplepad to play !)

RO:O is good for realism-fans (I love it, but some things I really would see changed, but thats another story). Its really good and I can't wait for a similar Mod / Game for the Westfront.

Oblivion dosent fit into your theory, becouse it's also for specific groups, it takes a heckofa time to play Oblivion, and it's only singleplayer also!

 

[Captain Data]

Don't know something about Oblivion. Maybe its fun ... have to google for it.

I am more that FPS / Space / RTS-Guy

 

[myzko]

I'm VERY SURE we can get Red Orchestra into the top10, just start usin' it!

 

[wokelly]

Yeah, many players would not like this game, too real, kinda why WWIIOL is not huge, even though it has 80+ Tanks, Planes, ATGs, AA Guns, Etc. Games like RO requires real skill, and most people rather go ranbow.

 

[Katczinsky42]

Not that bothered about getting tons of people in. This game is quality and unique, so there will always be a small community of people to play it, simply because theres nothing else like it.
besides, more chance to get to know people you play with/against.

 

[ApplePie]

Just a little cheat we can all use to get it to top 10. When you are afk just leave RO and xfire on. Will get a lot more hours faster.

 

[[5.SS] Hollenfeuer]

Too bad old CoD lost lots of players to CoD 2. I think, CoD UO was way better (even more with GFM, but thats another story), because there was no pumpgun. There was a sprint-function, you could choose firemode, Vehicles etc ... good ol' CoD UO. CoD 2 is just noobish arcade.

I couldn't agree with you more. We had a GFM server for UO which was quite popular. GFM had some bugs, and the tanks in UO were dicey to say the least, but the gameplay and maps were much better CoD2 ever thought about being. In my mind CoD2 was a huge step backwards. RO, while not as graphically intense as CoD2, is much better in every other aspect.

 

[MkH^]

Rather a small and active community than what you would find in games like Battlefield 2 or Counter-Strike.

 

[DirtyRat]

if RO gets in the top20 i'd be happy.

All those games in the top 10 had huge marketing campaigns behind them, or in the case of CSS, have a long historical following (not to mention it comes with the massively successful HL2)...RO will struggle to compete against such marketing giants.

I cant believe people like CoD2 MPtho, its such a bag of balls, UO was definately the best out from that series.

And they should ban WoW for sucking the life from the games industry, its been proven that game is causing other studios to shut down, because their player bases have evaporated into WoWland...this will affect all gamers and the type of games we see in the future, so its worrying.

 

[Mike Burgio]

I think CoD 2 is awsome, i have all 3, and yes its untactical but do you really play it to be tactical or to have fun and try and get best score , now that RO is out you can quench your tactical thirst with that or when you feel the need to get in and start killing you can go have a great time cod2, so i think with these to games you have the best of both worlds.

And for the WoW thing, how can you blame a game for being succesful?

 

[myzko]

Well, in my opinion WoW is not really succesfull, it killed my lust to play Warcraft 4 (if it comes)

 

[lacisghost]

I think the numbers in the first post are minutes played not number of people playing.

That said, I prefer a smaller community where you know the people you play than the massive COD2 community with little involvement etc.

I left COD:UO when COD2 came out, but went ot DOD:S shortly after since COD2 was just so... COD2ish. Anyway, I am really happy with RO. I am trying to build my clans interest in the game. we only have a handful of people. hopefully we can become competitive in the near future. This game will only grow by word of mouth. The xfire gimmick can help. I will do my part. Hopefully xfire will help by letting my friends see that I am playing it and entice them. Let my clan mates know when we are playing to promote gameplay etc.... As long as this game grows organically like that, we should see improvement while maintaining a close community.

 

[Heinz]

yeah, use x-fire and add everyone in here to your x-fire buddies list. then as more "freinds of friends" start appearing in that section of your RO, that are playing RO, add them as well.

it will spread like the ripples in a pond young grasshoppers...

 

[breadtruck]

and i dont think RO will ever get on the top 10...there just doesnt seem to be enough people

True. Best hope is the friends-of-friends network, it may help get some people out there interested in finding out what RO is.