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Offline Yarbles

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Re: What would get AH growing again
« Reply #105 on: November 06, 2024, 12:38:33 PM »
2024 top ten online games according to this site:



https://twinfinite.net/features/most-played-games/

None of those have any interest for me and possibly most of the player base but seriously thanks for the info. I think it proves we are niche. I have seriously no idea why anyone would want to play those and that says allot about my age perhaps and the rest of us. Knowing where a game is in the market it probably a good starting point.
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Re: What would get AH growing again
« Reply #106 on: November 06, 2024, 01:15:06 PM »
Your return on direct email marketing is very low.

Depends on how exciting it is. It would take two hours to put together and edit. Then an hour to put the email together.

Very little cost, very little time wasted, and if it brings back even 10-20 players. That's a win.
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Re: What would get AH growing again
« Reply #107 on: November 06, 2024, 01:39:12 PM »
Depends on how exciting it is. It would take two hours to put together and edit. Then an hour to put the email together.

Very little cost, very little time wasted, and if it brings back even 10-20 players. That's a win.

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Well there it is :rock I hope HT likes it.

If John Doe starts playing AH again he will probably have friends to who want to join the fun too :banana:
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Re: What would get AH growing again
« Reply #108 on: November 06, 2024, 01:48:03 PM »
Sorry, but I highly doubt he’ll bite on that.

It comes down to us.

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Re: What would get AH growing again
« Reply #109 on: November 06, 2024, 01:51:08 PM »
I’m sorry not to be a downer but 10-12 players is not a win.

Normal click rates on email marketing is usually 3% or less. Those that actually buy after a click is much less. I don’t know how that translates to the AH scenario but I would guess it’s even less then all that.

Your goals for success and what HT would require are not the same.
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Re: What would get AH growing again
« Reply #110 on: November 06, 2024, 01:51:27 PM »
Sorry, but I highly doubt he’ll bite on that.

It comes down to us.

Becoming bewildered on why I even made videos.

Yarbles loved your video so there's one.   

Not a bad idea allowing one free month to all former subscribers.  Enough time to remind them why they loved or hated the game in the first place.   

The way I see it we can go down quietly or shouting from the rooftops.   AH is king, long live the king.   
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Re: What would get AH growing again
« Reply #111 on: November 06, 2024, 01:51:46 PM »
Sorry, but I highly doubt he’ll bite on that.

It comes down to us.

Becoming bewildered on why I even made videos.

Well I enjoyed it  :D

Thanks  :aok
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Re: What would get AH growing again
« Reply #112 on: November 06, 2024, 01:54:23 PM »
Yarbles loved your video so there's one.   

BRILLIANT  idea allowing one free month to all former subscribers.  Enough time to remind them why they loved or hated the game in the first place.   

The way I see it we can go down quietly or shouting from the rooftops.   AH is king, long live the king.   

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Re: What would get AH growing again
« Reply #113 on: November 06, 2024, 01:58:03 PM »
 But while we are on the subject: "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers"


We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:

And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.

 

From Henry V, Act IV, Scene III
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Re: What would get AH growing again
« Reply #114 on: November 06, 2024, 02:01:47 PM »
I remember skuzzy once said that they can't send mass emails because they were reported as spam.

otherwise I have no doubt hitech would have sent an email to my secondary account.


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Re: What would get AH growing again
« Reply #115 on: November 06, 2024, 02:06:11 PM »
I remember skuzzy once said that they can't send mass emails because they were reported as spam.

otherwise I have no doubt hitech would have sent an email to my secondary account.


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Re: What would get AH growing again
« Reply #116 on: November 06, 2024, 04:08:12 PM »
Yarbles loved your video so there's one.   

Not a bad idea allowing one free month to all former subscribers.  Enough time to remind them why they loved or hated the game in the first place.   

The way I see it we can go down quietly or shouting from the rooftops.   AH is king, long live the king.   

Bruv, you need to get your arse back . Nobody today knows what the REAL cheats are...and you HID them so well! While you're at it, get in touch with Middy and drag him back too. You two were my absolute heydey in terms of fun <S>

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Re: What would get AH growing again
« Reply #117 on: November 06, 2024, 06:07:53 PM »
Bruv, you need to get your arse back . Nobody today knows what the REAL cheats are...and you HID them so well! While you're at it, get in touch with Middy and drag him back too. You two were my absolute heydey in terms of fun <S>

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Re: What would get AH growing again
« Reply #118 on: November 06, 2024, 09:24:11 PM »
2024 top ten online games according to this site:



https://twinfinite.net/features/most-played-games/

Interesting... have only heard of 4 of them and never played any of them.
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Re: What would get AH growing again
« Reply #119 on: November 06, 2024, 11:46:56 PM »
But while we are on the subject: "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers"


We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:

And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.

 

From Henry V, Act IV, Scene III

 

Put the bottle down Yarbles your acting like a typical stateless Southerner.

For you Yanks the Southern part of England is no longer representative of the English majority.

If you ever visit England the North is now where the real English reside.

Yarbles blathering in about Dylan Thomas a drunk degenerate academic and quoting Shakespeare is the norm for those individuals who have no country or culture.

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