AfterWorld Survival Forum

Andrei, there is no point in advertising a game that cannot deliver at this moment. The game is on life support with cerebral hypoxia with little chances to recover. The machines are keeping the game alive until the family decides to pull the plug XS

If you want to see what a well-advertised, indie-developed, player/crowd-funded game can be just watch this video: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cig/star-citizen. Of course, the devs of Star Citizen have a well-known main person that AWS doesn't have, but even without that AWS could have been in a MUCH better place right now with the same kind of push.

im not going to advertise a game that simply doesn't produce a good game for newcomers.  IF the newcomer lands and stuff were fixed , I and the people who I have talked to would have follow thru with our advertising and such that we had planned.  But it was waiting for the newcomer section to get fixed and it never was...
advertising a bad product is worse then not advertising it.  First rule of business. 

Dale's talking about players advertising AWS, not the devs. Players advertise by telling their friends "Try this great game, it's a lot of fun!" and not wanting to tell your friends about a game that makes it difficult to begin enjoying from the start is perfectly understandable to me. It's for this same reason that I've had to tell my friends "It's a fun game, but there's work to be done and it seems to be stalled right now." That's not what I'd like to tell them, but I don't want to lie to my friends or get people to try it when they won't end up happy.

The devs should be advertising this as much as possible in as many methods as possible though. Unfortunately they haven't truly advertised it at all from what I can tell. The closest to advertising they've done is submit a page to MMORPG.com (which is flooded with competition and isn't exactly a household name anyway) and a Facebook page that includes the same information as the AW home page. If there's anything else, it's either so well hidden that I haven't found it or so minimal that I've forgotten all about it. The whole situation is shameful and saddening, but it doesn't have to stay that way.

Homo "Evangelist" Ludenis was responsible for finding investors and communicating with the playerbase. The communication part worked ok for a while, but after 1st (unsuccessful) attempt to find investors it stopped. Conclusion - he is not working for DL team any more.


New players can't join the game. What is impossible can't be advertised. The decision to disable new account creation was made for a reason. The game is not ready. If it will be ready sometimes in the future then we could discuss how it should be advertised.
Right now everything is simple - Afterworld is dead.


R.I.P.

I don't know about work of Evangelist of coarse, but he still reads the forum.

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New players can't join the game.

I thought it was temporarly and regisration is available now.

@Jane. Are you sure the game features will get back to AWA? I see no work of devs now, of coarse i'll be happy to be wrong with that. With placing game on torrents and having more online the chance of survival (now i understand the true meaning of the game's name ) of AWS can appear. With open registration of coarse.

Registration is still unavailable: https://my.afterworld.deelogic.net/
Which I see as a good thing - to me it says 'we know the game is not ready for newcomers'.

I am confident that the game will have almost all of AWA features that are currently broken and/or missing from AWS ... eventually ... possibly starting with the fixing Newcomer activities. However, these will not replace the new features AWS has already set in motion (e.g. clones & PVP).