Geneforge series board traffic: no long tail?

[Student of Trinity]

MagmaDragoon recently asked on General where all the Geneforgers were. He had the idea that there is more traffic about Avernum 1-3 than about Geneforge 1-3. Is this really true? If so, why?

 

Please, no answers of the form 'Geneforge sucks', especially if you're one of the people who have by now made your opinion on that point abundantly clear. Restating it for the nth time here would just waste bandwidth. It is obvious that in principle this could be one reason why this board might get less traffic. I'm interested in less obvious possibilities.

 

I think that the Averna are larger, and have more obscure things like secret passage and puzzles for newbies to be stumped by, so that they post to ask for help. On the other hand, I'm not so sure that we really do get so many fewer newbie queries about Gn, say, than about An. Do we?

[I_am_a_Minotaur]

I've been thinking and finally decided that this board is mostly from old Spiderweb fans and most of them are attached to the Avernum/Exile story as Jeff's oldest story and therefore stick to that. These boards are dominated by Avernum and Exile fans where as newer spiderweb fan boards are dominated by the Geneforge fans.

[MagmaDragoon]

Agreed. And BoA keep occupied a lot of community members for make new scenarios.

[Retlaw May]

Though Avernum 1-3 has had even less traffic to the point that I'm wondering if we have gone through everything of interest to say.

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Activity usually wanes as we get further away from a release. These boards see a boost in traffic on all forums after said event. I predict with the release of Geneforge 4, this forum will become abuzz with activity once more as new players discover the older games.

[Dikiyoba]

Activity on a specific board differs from month to month. It wasn't too long ago that the Geneforge Series was very active. And the Geneforge Series has a lot more posts and topics than the Avernum Trilogy.

 

Dikiyoba actually feels that the Geneforge Series is more active. Maybe Dikiyoba is just more active here than there.

[blueman02]

I agree with Odim. The first game I saw was GF1. I liked it a lot and decided to try Avernum/Exile, but just never could get into them. However, I did like the demo for the latest Avernum, so maybe I'll eventually try them again. Two different styles of gameplay leads to two different groups of players.

[Zeviz]

One reason for relative lack of activity now is that, with the availability of detailed walkthroughs, there are much fewer people asking questions about gameplay. So most discussion centers around strategies and phylosophycal question, and there is only so much you can talk about those things before exhausting the topics. A4 came out more recently, so there are still more things to discuss about it.

 

PS Talking about long tails, my A2 page is still getting several visitors per day, and Nethergate page is getting several visitors per week, so there are still people playing even older Spidweb games.

[Lowbacca]

Um. I played GF2 and I loved it. So I trid al the Avernum games. And I disliked them with great contempt. I didnt like the story or gameplay or anything. Geneforge I think is way cooler. Of course, I'm a newer player...But still. Anyways,i think im done now bubye

[MagmaDragoon]

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Originally written by Zeviz:
So most discussion centers around strategies and phylosophycal question, and there is only so much you can talk about those things before exhausting the topics.

Someone has already opened a topic like: "Control the life you create: is moral or not"?