How can we "advertise" Jazz Jackrabbit 2? [Archive]

Hareoic

Mar 3, 2002, 10:15 AM

How can we make advertisements or signs that this game is great so our community of J2 players can increase? Here is one idea:

1. Go to www.gamefaqs.com and go to the sidebar, click PC, click on the letter J, find Jazz Jackrabbit 2 in the list of games, and then click Submit Review. Give it a good rating and it might appear in the GameFAQs' Top Ten Games bar.

Any other suggestions?

KRSplat

Mar 3, 2002, 10:30 AM

Were you here in 1999? Those were some pretty tough times. Agressive and hating n00bs and cloners. Maybe expanding the community isn't such a good idea.

(maybe it was 2000, not sure ;))

MaGoo

Mar 3, 2002, 11:06 AM

I don't think JJ2 is sold anymore, but you can always advertise on..... *Cough* Warez! *Cough* XP

Wild Angel

Mar 3, 2002, 05:02 PM

We had ALOT of trouble in 1999. Everyone was cruel, hating... this community stuck together like super-glue though. ^-^

Kaz

Mar 3, 2002, 05:40 PM

Personally I think the game is bad... so actually we shouldn't advertise in the first place.

Ducky

Mar 3, 2002, 05:59 PM

*shoves Kaz off a cliff*
Meanie.

But I don't think we should advertise too much, either.

Link

Mar 3, 2002, 06:22 PM

http://www.jazz2online.com/jcf/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2156 <---Read

You can put up ad banners on sites like Hotmail, but it costs money (about $20 US per 1000 views)

FireSworD

Mar 3, 2002, 06:30 PM

What do you mean 1999 was such a rough time? it wasn't so bad for me.

Unhit

Mar 3, 2002, 11:34 PM

Well, I already got lots of my friends to play that game, at least 20 persons are playing with my TSF-version. Unfortunately, they only play very seldom online, so they aren't "of use" for the community...

The March Hare

Mar 4, 2002, 06:23 AM

I got four (4) friends to play Jazz! Go me! :D

-The March Hare

Unhit

Mar 4, 2002, 06:34 AM

Do they play online?

Newspaz

Mar 4, 2002, 07:08 AM

I got no friends who I know IRL on Jazz :-/

The March Hare

Mar 4, 2002, 07:13 AM

I dunno if they play online or not... I'll ask 'em!

-The March Hare

Unhit

Mar 4, 2002, 07:27 AM

Well, 2 of those ppl I gave Jazz do play. Sometimes...this are 10 %!!!!
:lol:

~SPLASH~

Mar 4, 2002, 07:42 AM

I helped alot of people into Jazz, with only one CD. :D

Unhit

Mar 4, 2002, 07:44 AM

Like I did :p!

The March Hare

Mar 4, 2002, 07:45 AM

tsk tsk, you two! :D

-The March Hare

FireSworD

Mar 4, 2002, 07:47 AM

Bah! i haven't helped anybody into JJ2! :P

Unhit

Mar 4, 2002, 07:49 AM

Originally posted by The March Hare
tsk tsk, you two! :D

-The March Hare

Yes, we two :p!

~SPLASH~

Mar 4, 2002, 08:19 AM

us...the evil people who buy only one cd but then give it to a million...no wait..I have 2 jazz2 cd's + 1 tsf cd...aw..

Chiyu

Mar 4, 2002, 09:29 AM

Originally posted by KRSplat
Were you here in 1999? Those were some pretty tough times. Agressive and hating n00bs and cloners. Maybe expanding the community isn't such a good idea.

(maybe it was 2000, not sure ;))

Actually.. I liked 1999 and 2000 in JJ2 much more than 2001 and 2002...

~SPLASH~

Mar 4, 2002, 10:36 AM

But still...1340 was the best - and you all know it!

Unhit

Mar 4, 2002, 10:43 AM

No. 2005 will rule us all :p!

(argh! Offtopic!)

Hareoic

Mar 4, 2002, 03:42 PM

Hmmmmmm.... I have a suspicion that they will tell their friends eventually and then they will tell their friends and so on and so on...

Wow, I think we might want to do the same! The community may actually grow from hundreds to thousands of people!

KRSplat

Mar 4, 2002, 03:56 PM

But will we still have the same relationships with all of us? Its hard to know a thousand people as friends.

Txl Kill

Mar 4, 2002, 05:00 PM

Yes it will become like Unreal or CS where you dont know anyone you just try to kill someone unless you set up a meating somewhere... i like it much better small..

EvilMike

Mar 4, 2002, 05:20 PM

Dream on, foalks ;P

This game was never popular, and it never will be. That's not a bad thing either.

People just can't get interested in jj2 any more. It's too old of a game.

VelKa

Mar 4, 2002, 08:19 PM

don't advertise. I don't like advertising.

I have my own 'core' friendship group here....the other people don't count as much as my 'real' friends here. Yeah, there's hundreds of other Jazzers, but only the 'core' matters a whole lot to me. =)

Oh, and--the more confused people we bring here, the more confusion.

Unhit

Mar 4, 2002, 09:11 PM

I think the problem with too many people will be that noone knows each other, it will be even worse like with the new Jazzers today. This is the fact I like in THIS communnity, but a few players more sure wouldn't hurt...

Unhit

Mar 4, 2002, 09:27 PM

What I want to say is that more players will perhaps be a kind of victory for the game, but sure not for the community...

blurredd

Mar 5, 2002, 02:15 AM

I would think that we would need more players to join JJ2. Not necessarily hundreds of people, but just enough to replace everyone who leaves JJ2. Because sooner or later we all are gonna leave the community (I know I won't be playing this when I'm 33). And we probably shouldn't make fun of the newbies either (besides the fact that we were all newbies once) since they'll probably be future programers, hosting the next "Jazz2City" and making revolutional levels. So I conclude that maybe we need to to advertise JJ2 a little more, but not too much. Just enough to get more people playing...

EvilMike

Mar 5, 2002, 02:59 PM

The only way to kill a computer game is to kill the system it is one. Once the PC becomes obsolete, nobody will be playing jj2. Otherwise, people will always play it, even if very very little.

JJ BBoy KS

Mar 5, 2002, 05:11 PM

I don't want a bunch of people. I like this place the way it is where I pretty much know everybody...sort of.

Unhit

Mar 6, 2002, 02:59 AM

Originally posted by JJ BBoy KS
I don't want a bunch of people. I like this place the way it is where I pretty much know everybody...sort of.

Yes, but we definitely need new people. because old ones DO leave. But too much are worse, too...

Originally posted by EvilMike
The only way to kill a computer game is to kill the system it is one. Once the PC becomes obsolete, nobody will be playing jj2. Otherwise, people will always play it, even if very very little.

This was perhaps a problem at very odl, base on DOS, games. But I think Epic put some kind of "speed-stopper" in Jazz, so it also runs on high systems. I'll soon get 2 Ghz...and then I'll be able to tell you more about that prob ;)!

Michael

Mar 6, 2002, 08:59 AM

Enough corrupt (and good) people. Let them poor in at the rates they are now.

mirrow

Mar 6, 2002, 09:58 AM

We should make a Starter site ..
Extreme Simple with short descriptions (just facts) and a cool description of the community, the necessary progs ("xjj2",listserver,aso..), and the simplest things like how to chat with"t" .. ...there won't be very much people which we play it if they see it so no fear ;)

ERm i guess i repeated anything nm :D

Well and of course some banners...

HM

Violet CLM

Mar 6, 2002, 02:04 PM

XJJ2 a necessary program? It messes things up.

Anyway, my view is the same as Megumi's second pharagraph.

Tik

Mar 8, 2002, 06:23 AM

I like the community how it is now...nice and small. Though when there we re tons of newbies who didn't know about the message board and stuff, you could have to some real fun...

But remember all of the old flame wars and that period when massive amounts of people were leaving, rejoining, and releaving the community? That was bad and/or stupid.

I don't know.

Unhit

Mar 8, 2002, 06:29 AM

I can't say anything about that...
But if you accept that new people come, it's sure not bad for the community, if there aren't too much nubs...

FQuist

Mar 10, 2002, 05:15 AM

Mirrow has a good idea. I had it too, but I have always been too lazy to implement it. ;-)

Xeno_old

Mar 10, 2002, 09:31 AM

A small, personal community is much more likely to survive than a large community of unknowns. While I don't play JJ2 anymore, I still LOVE being on the forums.

BTW.....

I CLAIM 2ND PAGE!

<STRIKE>Only on default view though.</STRIKE>

defalcon

Mar 11, 2002, 12:01 AM

I think everything is fine as it is right now. Once everyone starts leaving, THEN we have a problem.

Gya Xeno, you should get another computer with a net connection so you can play. I barely play anymore because there's only ever noobs in TSF servers or an empty Battle Server when I have time to play.

Blearg! My page! *Swipes page and runs off*

FQuist

Mar 14, 2002, 06:03 AM

Does anyone have some ideas for info for a jj2 faq?

Some obvious things are the locations of the server patches and 1.23..

RosetaLopRabbit

Mar 14, 2002, 06:07 AM

talking about everyoen started leaving,..its already started!
hmm patches http://jazz2online.com
http://jazz3d.cjb.net ...

defalcon

Mar 14, 2002, 10:50 PM

JJ2 FAQ:
Brief hitory, patching game, utilities aka XJJ2, how to get started playing online, quick overview of the gametypes, how to do coloured names and such, the battle server, J2O, Haze's Hideout, the JCF...

BTW, do NOT tell them to start clans. :p