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I was just wondering if anyone has looked into publicizing DROD.

In particular it might be good to make sure it's on our favorite game download sites.

I see it is on Underdogs but not Gamehippo.
03-29-2005 at 03:51 PM
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DROD is on Gamehippo... see here. Despite a whopping 9.2 out of 10 from users, staff only gave it 7 so it's not going to show up in the best games section. Which is a shame.

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03-29-2005 at 04:10 PM
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krammer wrote:
DROD is on Gamehippo... see here. Despite a whopping 9.2 out of 10 from users, staff only gave it 7 so it's not going to show up in the best games section. Which is a shame.
This review was from DROD 1.5. If they were to re-review DROD 1.6, I'd expect they would give it a better rating.

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03-29-2005 at 05:30 PM
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I contacted them much earlier about the 1.6 release, but never got a response.

When JtRH is released, I'll make the rounds of submitting to a few hundred diffferent sites using a database.

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03-29-2005 at 05:46 PM
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I still think that illicitly sticking up posters on the outside on shop windows (preferably game and suchlike) would be easier and more effective.
03-29-2005 at 09:37 PM
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Well, I'm actually a reviewer for Gamehippo and tried to get the score changed for 1.6. It turns out I can't edit reviews made by someone else. The review for DROD was made by the admin, and he doesn't want it changed...
04-01-2005 at 07:02 PM
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But they do re-reviews when a new version comes out...I've seen that happen in the past. Have you asked about that?

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04-01-2005 at 07:05 PM
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Zmann wrote:
Well, I'm actually a reviewer for Gamehippo and tried to get the score changed for 1.6. It turns out I can't edit reviews made by someone else. The review for DROD was made by the admin, and he doesn't want it changed...
The review made by the admin was for version 1.5. Does this mean he doesn't want to do a new review at all for version 1.6?

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04-01-2005 at 07:16 PM
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I've posted about DROD on the Red vs Blue forums. I did so again today.

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04-01-2005 at 10:38 PM
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Personally, I'm waiting until some of the video issues are resolved before posting the link. I think that Erik was going to wait for a few days (or longer) to inform the various free game sites as well.

Edit: and it seems like it might just have been an old driver issue. Excellent...hopefully that will be the only problem...

Game on,

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04-01-2005 at 11:06 PM
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mrimer wrote:
The review made by the admin was for version 1.5. Does this mean he doesn't want to do a new review at all for version 1.6?

Well you see, I don't really know. I could ask him about it again if you really want me too. The current system in Gamehippo is severely flawed, and communication with other reviewers can sometimes be a very long and difficult process.
04-01-2005 at 11:39 PM
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I put some of DROD introduction in Abandonia.com forums, in the section of Chips Challenge game. I think this game was also addictive and very close to DROD. I invite them to try DROD and put a link to drod.net.
04-24-2005 at 12:12 PM
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