Dean Takahashi of Mercextra.com writes, "I've been curious about the pecking order of the video game news web sites for a while. Here are the numbers on some of the bigger sites from comScore MediaMetrix, the market researcher that keeps the scorecard on web traffic."
"INDIE Live Expo, Japan’s premiere online digital showcase series connecting indie game fans all over the world, highlighted more than 150 games during its Saturday broadcast introducing world premieres, new trailers, and updates during its 10th-ever digital showcase." - INDIE Live Expo.
"Following a great event in November of last year, DevGAMM Lisbon is coming back to the beautiful and sunny Cascais region to catch up with old friends, connect with game developers from around the world, hear from seasoned professionals, and have a great time all around." - DevGAMM.
A look into the sad trajectory of indie games from high successful releases to complete irrelevancy in just a few weeks or months.
That's the thing with gaming there's always new experiences to have why spend months or years playing a single game when there's a new experience right around the corner.
Indie or AAA if your building your game expecting long term player counts you'll probably be disappointed as gamers often enjoy something for a few weeks and move on only to return if it's truely a classic.
Out of all the generations I've experienced there's games from 30 plus years ago I still dust off and play like super Mario bros, earthbound, vice city and san Andreas being games I treasure and revisit every few years but I'm not going back to play a game designed to keep me engaged for months on end because it's also designed to milk my wallet in most cases.
Build a great game that people love make it playable offline and ask does it matter if the concurrent player count is under 100 a year post launch more often that not it doesn't
The price of entry is too high to take chances like I used to. Was looking at V Rising and that ranges from $50-$130 CAD. That’s a lot for an indie imo. By the time it goes on sale, the player count might be dwindling. But that’s the trade-off, I guess.
Why is N4G in the Header?, whay did you expect although N4G is the best site in theory its now used as an tool with one side controlling it. Only Fanboys with goals and agenda's use this site people that would never say the the things on other sites come here. Only a few actually respect this site for what was originally going to make this the greatest site on the web.
Power of green is 100% correct. People use gang and group tactics on this site more than a Republican vs. Democratic web site and you are a part of the problem your self.
People throw around more ignorant false claims on this site that I have ever seen and this crap is getting ugly. If I did not believe that this was the best site on the web I would have left moths ago.
FAN bOYS SUCK
just ignore the comments. on the news side weird rumors get posted and we dont get much news from the xbox side now
before it was the exact opposite wish people would approve of both ps3 and 360 news
comments but still can't log into the forums? X(
the forums & posting comments. Just checking, BTW Where's N4G?