Increasing game popularity

Hi!
Recently I've started making some thoughts on how we can grow this game bigger than ever before. So I thought I'd share some quick ideas that I just had, which I think might benefit FRHD greatly.

One; we have a prize, say an exclusive hat in the shop or maybe a new kind of rider gear. This prize can only be unlocked by connecting your account to FRHD and inviting 10 of your facebook friends!

Another idea that is build upon social media marketing, is; that when you finish a track, you can send challenges to 5 friends on FB, and earn coins (daily achievement).

A third idea is to receive a one-time coin prize when you download and login on the FRHD app. The challenge FB friends function could and should also be integrated.

The possibilities are many, probably more than I can think of myself. That's why I'm airing this with you guys, instead of Char directly, to see what you guys think, and you probably got some similar ideas regarding increasement of game popularity too! If you do, please share!

 

Coin rewards in general for being more active in general, like for joining the forums, etc, are a good idea. Make all FRHD membership or whatever perks purchasable through coins. Focus on getting people to buy coins. Make checkpoints save your time if you pay 100 coins or something, create campaigns you can buy with coins, etc.

I know this might be a stretch, but take out actual ads. Lots of money I know, but just an idea.

I agree to expand through social media, post videos of great ghosts and good tracks, get people interested in the game.

As we very recently discussed, add more campaigns. An idea I like for a campaign is "5 second frenzy," where you need to get a time under 5 seconds to advance, really quick but you'd have a lot of them to keep people playing. Another fun one would be an "around the world" campaign.

Take down FR3 so it does not distract from the far superior FRHD.

Get people to join the forums, advertise the forums all over the site. A big community helps immensely in game popularity.

Pay high-level track authors (we've already talked about it, but I have to mention it for my sake)

Generally model the site and features after youtube
I know I have more, let me think for a moment...

 

I find that forum sigs can really get my attention.
I think it would be pretty cool if there was an ad for the game that people could put in their signatures on other forums.
What would be really awesome would be if every time a certain amount of people clicked your sig, you got some kind of prize.

Also, maybe some kind of "Getting started" page so people don't feel overwhelmed when they first visit the site.

And I just want to agree with Cataclysm in saying that the forums need to be advertised.

 

And copy Canvas Rider. For example, ads.

I know video ads before each game probably make more money, but it is a huge detractor to playing the actual game, and these games work best with no adds, but instead in-game/app purchases (hence a focus on coins). I suggest getting rid of ads before tracks and put typical ads at the side of the track or somewhere like canvas rider.

Also, authors making their own thumbnails. While this seems fairly benign and useless to overall popularity, I believe this function serves to make tracks look more appealing and interesting, and the front page would have a much more attractive look, as opposed to the distance and difficult to see current thumbnails.

 

there is only one solution to increasing the popularity of free rider hd

glider

 

More stuff in the store to encourage people to buy coins/earn them, and I think an active Twitch/Youtube account(s) would be good too. Even if its just play-throughs or drawing certain aspects of tracks, or doing detailing tutorials etc. The videos/channels could be promoted on the FRHD home page and/or on KANO's Youtube channel

 

Yes, encourage current users on here to spread it to others.

 

Good ideas Stig

 

We need more things you can do with coins. More people would buy coins if you could do more with them other than buy a hat.

 

Yeah I agree with everything said here.
I do agree the forum needs more advertising. We can look into it at some point soon.
It is a bit of a pain to register/connect accounts, so we might have to look at solutions to that.

Once I push out the mobile stuff we can look at different ways to polish this game up, and create a better user experience.

 

Not just FB either Twitter, Google +, Instagram, etc

 

I thought the solution had been solved, Pssst was banned.

 

i would not want my irl friends to know i play this game tbh

 

when I play this game in front of friends its in a joking fashion.

 

I got my whole class to play it on the last day of school last year.

 

me and AugustBrown have tried. but it has been a long time since i have been on. i want to help this game grow

 

WE. NEED. THUMBNAILS.
SERIOUSLY if there's ads before a track you can at least know what you're getting into. The home page would be so much better this way too. It still needs more work but SERIOUSLYYYY

 

THUMBNAILS. are needed

 

I've come to an age where most of my friends know i play this game, and neither them or i give a crap. Im also openly responding/moderating the forums while im with them.
People in their 80s play candy crush aso, and i find those games less mature now tbh

 

yes i would not care if any of my friend knew i played this either in fact a few people i know irl play this, i couldn't care less about coins so i wouldn't bother challenging facebook friends tbh