So. I came up with a way to get people interested in MML3...

[EskimoOfTheNight]

First off, I'm not trolling. This is a legitimate idea, based on factual evidence and statistics, with some probability thrown in for good measure.

Here's the gist of it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyXcr6sDRtw&list=FLRy3TO589HX4RawOnEvttNA&index=27

About 5 minutes in comes the important part. I highly recommend their channel, incredible stuff for any gamer. The video is the third part of a trilogy, but while insightful and overall worth checking out, only the part of the video I put above is where my plan is based.

So, I'm assuming you've watched the video at this point, I'm too lazy to sum it up properly.

Watched it? Good. I'm sure you already see where this is going. The plan is simple, we get MML 1 played by someone big on youtube. Sounds crazy? Perhaps. But something worth noting is the 100K stromg to bring back MML3. If we could talk the facebook page into getting people to politely request on Pewdiepie's and other gamers' Youtubes, well, 100,000 voices is hard to ignore (Unless You're Capcom...). Suppose the 100K repeatedly requests the top 50 youtube gamers play the first Legends game, if even one moderately popular Youtube gamer plays the game, some of their competitors will play the game to compete for views, and then one of the major players will play it to get the views from their significantly larger fanbase. Then, another large youtuber plays it, then another. Perhaps eventually even Pewdiepie, and then 30 million people see it.

The critical part is this: people watch the youtubers play the game for 20-30 minutes and comment on how good or terrible they think it is. People will want to see for themselves just how great/terrible it is. Some will like it, some will hate it. This is where it's a HUGE gamble though... If MML starts spreading by word of mouth, will the overall consensus be that the game is good, or that it's bad? I genuinely think that this strategy could get us this far, but the one variable that the fanbase has no control over is if people who are exposed to the game in this manner would actually WANT to play it? And then, even if the answer is yes, would it be enough to push Capcom into MML3?

Discuss, please. I'm curious to hear peoples' thoughts. Am I crazy for thinking this is possible, or do you agree? Would the general gaming populace actually LIKE Legends 1? Would media reporting on the newest viral craze of MML even be enough to get Capcom back on the MML3 train?

[Dashe]

I've never had too much success with cold-calling. The people who pay attention to 100k probably consist of about 1,000 people on a good day. I mean, that's still a lot of messages to get about one topic on a daily basis. I think the biggest LPer who's taken on the series has been some guy called ClementJ642 (usually seems to net around 100k, got 16k for Legends 1 recently). I honestly have no clue how Youtube crowd dynamics work or who the top 50 even are, much less how to contact any of them in a way to get noticed.

Still, I'd be willing to give it a shot if we could think of an unusual way to actually catch their attention. The problem lies within standing out when they have literally thousands of people trying to get their attention daily.

[yui]

It's too bad that fan groups seem to be a lot less organized than they used too. This sounds like the grand events the starmen.net crew used to do.

Game Grumps tend to play a game if the fans send them a copy. If people send them one, they are kinda popular. I know legends is expensive, but just last month someone sent tomba to the continue guys, and that's even more expensive. Things can happen. Arin really loves megaman.

[Handlebar-Orion X.]

It would be too risky and far fetched to try. There is however, a far better solution that can actually knock on Capcom's door. Just watch the end of this thing I cooked up... Damn! A year ago.



It may be far fetched too, but it's far less likely to get you banned places.

[Mikéy]

Mar 9, 2015 20:33:23 GMT -5 Handlebar-Orion X. said:

It would be too risky and far fetched to try. There is however, a far better solution that can actually knock on Capcom's door. Just watch the end of this thing I cooked up... Damn! A year ago.

...Okay, first. I don't quite understand. Since your video's getting close to its 1-year mark of being up, and there's been no noticeable change in Capcom's intentions, how exactly do you think your solution's better than EotN's as a whole? You gave your opinion, but you gave no points that supported your opinion at all.

Mar 9, 2015 20:33:23 GMT -5 Handlebar-Orion X. said:

It may be far fetched too, but it's far less likely to get you banned places.

...And, second. While this statement is true in some cases, it's still important to realize how arbitrary it is based on where you post it. In a setting that has no relevance to Megaman Legends, it's most likely to be ignored and / or received with confusion or "well then" thoughts. The arbitrary bit also applies to frequency of how often the video appears to the same audience. Around here, if the same video appears in too many posts, it becomes considered SPAM regardless of how valiant it is, and will begin to be removed altogether.

Now, I realize that it took you a good 3 years of on-and-off work to create that animation, and I highly respect that. But there's a better way to convey yourself with your idea rather than just leaving your video in a post.

• Link to the thread where your video is being discussed instead of linking the actual video

In doing this, it doesn't look as if you're trying to hijack a thread for the sake of gathering view-count, and it looks a lot less like spam so that conversation can continue without interrupting flow.

• Acknowledge strengths and weaknesses that your method has in regard to someone else's

Based on what EotN is suggesting, it's not a terrible idea to have a big gamer give their opinions on the series as they play through it to gain publicity. Overall, for a series in its time, Legends is outstanding compared to a lot of other titles, so purely good reviews should come from it. Due to the nature of people who have a high subscriber count like Pewdie, more than a fair share of people will likely see it.

However, EotN's suggestion also means that no direct solution is truly given to continuing the series, which your video obviously has, although it's merely a possible solution that suggests appealing directly to the source of the series. See how with this, your idea has a bit more strength than EotN's? But it also has a weakness with advertisement that isn't being made up for in the right manner.

So, all of that being said, please try to be a bit more respectful to the thread's subject; and offer constructive criticism instead of shooting down an idea in favor of your own. And, please be wary of how often you provide a video link that you've provided before. I actually believe your thread belongs here in the Legends 3 Revival Movement board more than Misc Art at this point, but I digress. I'll gladly move it if you PM me about it. As for the sake of EoTN's topic, I suppose you could say I gave a valid opinion that could be considered alongside Dashe's.

So here's a possible proposal of mine: What if Handlebar's video link was put in at the end of a playthrough episode or two of the Youtuber with the high sub count?

[yui]

Dashe, Jirard The Completionist reviewed MML a really long time ago, he liked it. If you guys asked him to do MML2 I'm sure he'd do it even though sequels month is over. He easily has more subscribers than clementj. Besides, funny game reviewers are better than LPers anyday. People are more willing to give out their attention to a single video rather than a long drawn out series.

[Dashe]

I'll ask the 100k staff if they remember him from his Legends 1 video. I don't remember it myself, but there are a lot of things I don't remember and most of them are gaming related.

As for Orion's video going at the end of a high-sub subscriber video, the text parts would definitely need to be polished up and shortened. As it is, having the text the same color as the glow around it makes things hard to read, and it's really wordy. You're spending a lot more time than necessary trying to read these instructions when the meat of the video should really be the part at the beginning, which is what the people would ideally want to see. Rerendering the text is a lot faster than creating another video from scratch, too.

[Loken]

Well hey its not too bad of an idea to have let's players do MML. If we could get a bunch of different lets players play the game in the month of july as part of the cancellation anniversary it would be really cool. Im not sure if they would but there are plenty of megaman fans on youtube so they may. It would probably have to be headed by gmotm so it would seem 'official'.

Im not sure a whole playthrough would be realistic but maybe a video or two at least.