Meridian 59 Offers Free Trial

Psychochild writes "I'm the owner of the online RPG Meridian 59. We've been working hard on updating the game since relaunching it in 2002, rewriting the rendering engine to take advantage of 3D hardware acceleration, adding modern features like mouselook and rebindable keys, fixing bugs, and adding new content. We're currently offering a free trial of Meridian 59 for those interested in learning more about the game and the independent developers now running it."

Comments

Free advertising

[Anonymous Coward]

You have got to be kidding me. A MMORPG with like 10 players gets on Slashdot by posting what is basically an ad here? There are a dozen TEXT MUDS more popular than this game. What is it doing on Slashdot with a blatant advertisement?

Re:Free advertising

[UltimaL337Star]

trust me, people don't just play m59 for the graphics.

Re:Free advertising

[Psychochild]

It's not an ad, it's marketing. It's funny how people get bent out of shape when an independent developer mentions his or her game, but when a story is just a copy and paste of a press release no one cares. Yeah, I posted up about the free trial, but that's because we don't pay a marketing department several million dollars to market the game less obviously.

For example, look at the Ilovebees.com stories lately. People know that this is marketing for Halo 2, but I didn't see as much outrage when Slashdot posted news about that site. That's because Ilovebees.com is an interesting, free game. Well, the M59 trial is an interesting free game that just happens to be marketing for the commercial servers. :)

Realistically, what am I going to get out of this? Not much. I willingly labeled my post as a Games section, and even after several hours of being posted, there's less than two dozen replies to the thread. Perhaps I should have had one of my events people role-play a sexist bastard so we could have gotten on the front page like A Tale in the Desert did?

Anyway, you can check my posting history to see that I usually write insightful posts, mostly in the Games section. It's not like I'm coming around astroturfing. I actually contribute to the community. At the very least I try to spend my moderator points modding up posts in the games section.

Anyway, Allaran, I'll have to check out your games. I'm a big believer in independent developers. Marketing is a very important aspect of getting people to notice your game. We independents can't spend millions of dollars on big magazine 2-page ads and TV spots. We've spent our money on developing our game, and if we don't pimp our own games no one is going to know about them. Don't let the people tell you otherwise. Wish I could have modded you up instead of having to reply to people here.

Have fun,

chance for alternative operating systems?

[Apreche]

Meridian 59 is soo old. It was a 3d MMORPG back when I had a 486 and a video card with 1MB of RAM. Only 16MB of system ram. At this point they are probably so far behind the game compared to EQ and others. They should totally work on getting their game out on Linux and Mac. It would definitely get them some of the $ they need without worrying about too much competition in those departments.