ZeldaClassic: How popular is it?
#1
Posted 25 February 2013 - 09:14 PM
Link!
This is real.
Is there a way we can make ourselves more known? With the official release of ZC 2.5 we would assume our popularity would have grown. But it hasn't.
Staff Edit: Image was above the image size limits. Reduced to a link.
#2
Posted 25 February 2013 - 09:56 PM
#3
Posted 25 February 2013 - 10:02 PM
Edited by Koh, 25 February 2013 - 10:02 PM.
#4
Posted 25 February 2013 - 10:13 PM
What I find surprising is how much its popularity has dropped. Even with other development tools, I wouldn't have expected popularity to have dropped so drastically since 2005.
#5
Posted 25 February 2013 - 10:20 PM
#6
Posted 25 February 2013 - 11:27 PM
Spore
Spore's a game making tool? I thought people only used that to make penis monsters...
Edit: So on a more related note, this guy named Sean Klitzner who has a fairly large Youtube channel has recently picked up Zelda Classic which will no doubt pull in more interest. I leave it to you guys to decide if that's a good thing or a bad thing...
Edited by Moosh, 25 February 2013 - 11:32 PM.
#7
Posted 25 February 2013 - 11:44 PM
..Also less competition is nice...
#8
Posted 26 February 2013 - 12:25 AM
#9
Posted 26 February 2013 - 07:16 AM
I honestly kind of like that ZC isn't wildly popular though. I think we've got a great, close community that's really respectful and helpful. The more people in a community, the more assholes you'll have to deal with.
..Also less competition is nice...
Oh god. Look at Fur Affinity (forums, not the main site) for example. That board, mostly in the 'Den' forum, is full of elitist, sarcastic jerks who do very little but constantly spam (or '****post', as they call it) in topics they deem to be 'bad' or 'stale' regardless of any worthwhile conversation made by the people who actually put sufficient effort into posting beforehand, driving off all of these thoughtful members to other parts of the board or even into becoming one of these '****posters'.
The reason I like ZC so much is that Pure is such a tight-knit, friendly community where nearly every member strives to be friendly, show respect to, tact and help each other out, something that is very rare for an internet community (though this seems only really feasible with a small community). I don't really care wherever it is really popular or not, just as long as we have a friendly, respectful community.
Edit: One possible contributing factor to the statistics dropping is AGN's reputation of getting hacked and elitism running amok there in the past. If that's true, then we should begin gaining more popularity soon as AGN's old, negative reputation fades away.
Edited by Orin XD, 26 February 2013 - 07:24 AM.
#10
Posted 26 February 2013 - 07:34 AM
Oh god. Look at Fur Affinity (forums, not the main site) for example. That board, mostly in the 'Den' forum, is full of elitist, sarcastic jerks who do very little but constantly spam (or '****post', as they call it) in topics they deem to be 'bad' or 'stale' regardless of any worthwhile conversation made by the people who actually put sufficient effort into posting beforehand, driving off all of these thoughtful members to other parts of the board or even into becoming one of these '****posters'.
Usually that only happens because a good chunk of the community (including most of the mods) dislikes the OP unless I'm mistaken. Either that or the moderators are asleep. I kinda wish PureZC had a system like that. From what I've seen in IRC it's evident that a decent chunk of the active community is dissatisfied with a small group of posters who technically aren't breaking any major rules with their posts. Take that Moosh fellow for example: Why can we not vote him off the island? There's certainly enough people out there who hate him.
Getting back on topic, what are the search trends for PureZC? Google Trends doesn't seem to be working for me. The decline in Zelda Classic searches probably has something to do with the loss of interest in AGN which is the top result when searching for Zelda Classic.
Edited by Moosh, 26 February 2013 - 07:40 AM.
#11
Posted 26 February 2013 - 09:12 AM
According to this image. PureZC searches are pretty insignificant.
Link
Now The Satellite has a very reasonable answer, people don't need to search for what they can already find. But that can't explain such a proven deep decline you see here.
Unfortunately, my theory goes down to Zelda's declining reputation.
For example: Here
Now that may be more alarming to you guys.
Than there's this
#12
Posted 26 February 2013 - 09:33 AM
#13
Posted 26 February 2013 - 09:37 AM
"Legend of Zelda" vs. Mario vs. "Call of Duty"
Mario's popularity debunks all trolls against Call of Duty because Mario is Nintendo. Both these games are legitimately more popular than Zelda.
Pretty much everything game related that's over a decade old is seeing some sort of declining interest. That's just how Google works. Just because people aren't Googling stuff doesn't mean it's dying. It just means people already know stuff and don't need to look it up.
Click the last link, Mario is on the rise. Unless there is some very popular Mario dude that's catching people's interest, we'll assume Mario's popularity in my previous post is about Mario games.
The world has a big population, there will always be people asking google about their new interests. But I guess there is some truth to your words. Even "video games" in its entirety is losing its trend.
But that boils down to my very point of view. Zelda is not gathering many new younger fans. I could almost conclude that Zelda's popularity in itself is biased to its cult of fans.
What I want to address is, Zeldaclassic can be more popular if it was addressed by what it actually is: The Ultimate Open World Game Maker. The name Zeldaclassic will eventually have to drop, or whatever, keep Zeldaclassic but make a new tool which uses the Zeldaclassic engine to appeal to fans of all video games genres.
Zeldaclassic can make survival horrors
Zeldaclassic can make run and gun
Zeldaclassic can make slash and dash
Zeldaclassic can make side scrollers
So why are we still trying to tell people we are just Zelda? When we are so much more!
#14
Posted 26 February 2013 - 09:58 AM
#15
Posted 26 February 2013 - 10:25 AM
I'm even kinda keen on changing the name of "Zelda Classic" to something else when 3.0 rolls around years from now. It's not like any of us oldbies will know it as anything else, and we'll all still probably be making mostly Zelda games because we like Zelda games, but in addition to that it'll look more appealing to people who are "fans of retro games" but not necessarily "Zelda fans". And community diversity is always a welcome thing, right?
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