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Blockland Shaders/Shadows - Difference between old and new
Bisjac:
--- Quote from: Planr on February 09, 2012, 04:50:25 PM ---Roblox has 4 million+ users and makes tons of money, which gives it the money to do the big scale advertising it does. It is also endorsed by big companies as well which gives it even more capability to advertise. Blockland has hardly any advertising or marketing and has a community of around 30,000, and can only rely on gaining new users by them finding the website or seeing one of the extremely rare ads. Blockland simply cannot compete due to this massive imbalance of power.
If blockland wants to become a big competitor then we need this update plus more advertising and marketing, because right now in comparison to Minecraft and Roblox we are barely a threat.
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you seem to think that just because there is compitition, that we have to beat them.
all compitition does is set standards. we arent losing some kind of war here. though how you seem to understand the retail world, you think we are.
Chrono:
--- Quote from: Byteswarm on February 09, 2012, 05:10:21 PM ---Blockland has ads? I've seen quite a few when I first found it, but around the time I joined and onwards, I've not seen another one.
Minecraft isn't really relevant. Its only similarities to Blockland are that it uses a cubular system of drawing landscapes and entities, and that it has mods. Unsupported mods, but mods nonetheless.
ROBLOX is mostly a physics/economy simulator(which it doesn't seem to do very well in either fields) imo. It doesn't hardly have any of the depth Blockland has, especially not its RPs, TDMs or building aspect.
Aside from those, I agree 100%.
It seems as though Badspot is trying to keep Blockland alive and make it stronger though. Here's hoping Blockland will survive and get stronger and not fall into obscurity.
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It's certainly not dying.
Take a look at Neverdaunt 8Bit. There's a game that died.
Altiris:
Please stay on topic about what this post is really about. Thanks for your contributions and support though
Colten:
--- Quote from: Planr on February 09, 2012, 04:50:25 PM ---Roblox has 4 million+ users and makes tons of money, which gives it the money to do the big scale advertising it does. It is also endorsed by big companies as well which gives it even more capability to advertise. Blockland has hardly any advertising or marketing and has a community of around 30,000, and can only rely on gaining new users by them finding the website or seeing one of the extremely rare ads. Blockland simply cannot compete due to this massive imbalance of power.
If blockland wants to become a big competitor then we need this update plus more advertising and marketing, because right now in comparison to Minecraft and Roblox we are barely a threat.
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Were not even a competitor of Minecraft.
However their userbase seems to think Minecraft is in competition with every online game involving any sort of creativity.
otto-san:
--- Quote from: Chrono on February 09, 2012, 05:11:52 PM ---Take a look at Neverdaunt 8Bit. There's a game that died.
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good god it did didn't it