Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2017 2:58 am
When I threw out the 5-20m number as games I have time to play, I'm certainly not suggesting that short for Allegiance. I'm saying we need a mode that basically starts you out with more than just a garrison that will almost certainly not take hours to play. The ideal time IMO is to have nearly all games be in the range of 20-35m.phoenix1 wrote:QUOTE (phoenix1 @ Aug 18 2017, 03:35 PM) IMO the problem isn't that the game lasts 30-45 minutes. Some people might like the whole "oh my let's play for 5-20 minutes" arcade thing and it'd be a tough sell for them to play something longer, but why the hell do we want to compete with established franchises at what they do best? We can't make Allegiance "league of legends... but IN SPACE!" because there already *IS* a League of Legends.
What we have to do is target the soccer-watching, football-loving demographic. The people who watch Nascar for the few crashes, the people who watch Baseball. For the vast majority of players, a game of soccer is ~60 minutes standing around, ~28 minutes jogging, ~2 minutes of action. Yet it's the most popular sport in the world.
If the games were virtually never longer than 45m that wouldn't be bad, but I mostly like Allegiance for what is already is and don't want to touch traditional Allegiance too much. We just need a shorter alternative that offers similar gameplay though.