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[johnkeel105]

One of the biggest flaws of Forgotten Hope is the small player base in North America. I think the primary reason for this is the lack of advertisement. I am well aware that the Forgotten Hope 2 team does not get paid for their amazing work and the cost of traditional advertisement is expensive.

During the 2.26 release of Forgotten Hope 2 I tried my best to work with several people on the forums, urging them to post topics and show screenshots in other forums to spread the word. I still believe that more people would play this amazing mod if they only knew about it. With the initial releases I remember some very cool instructional videos were posted on youtube. Over the last couple years some amazing wallpapers have been made as well. These were great ways to promote the mod.

While no one but the mod team knows when 2.3 will release, I would like for us to work together as a community, with the mod team, to come up with some ways of promoting FH2 better. I am confident we can come up with some clever ways to help drive people to try out Forgotten Hope 2. Please post any ideas you guys have and we can discuss!

Community Websites: (cod and bad company 2 are included due to popularity, just post in off topic sections of those forums)

http://badcompanytwo.com
http://forums.gamespy.com/planetbattlefield/
http://www.totalgamingnetwork.com/forumdisplay.php?195-Battlefield
http://battlefieldbadcompany.com/forum/index.php
http://bf3nation.com/forum/
http://badcompany2.ning.com/forum
http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/sections/show/2.page
http://forums.filefront.com/battlefield-series-218/
http://bashandslash.com/boards/
http://www.fpsadmin.com/forum/
http://www.worldofclans.com/
http://www.xpleague.com/
http://www.codmb.com/
http://www.codnow.com/
http://forums.raidersmerciless.com/index.php
http://codboards.com
http://codhq.com
http://bf2s.com/
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=733
http://forums.tripwireinteractive.com/forumdisplay.php?f=19
http://forums.darkesthourgame.com/viewforum.php?f=7&sid=1c76a0fe1eb63b6b0e02316021c3ab21
http://forum.resistanceandliberation.com/forumdisplay.php?s=7b190697bedae939b1ec53081abe08f0&f=20
http://callofduty.com/board/viewforum.php?f=24&sid=350a919add3e37b29b6967696627c2fb

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Forgotten Hope 2.3 Releases on Friday, October 1st, 2010 at 18:00 UTC

-New Maps; Battle of Brest, Ramelle Neuville, and St. Lo Breakthrough
-New Weapons; Scoped FG42, Petrol Bomb
-New Knives; Gravity, Hitler Jugend, Luftwaffe, Herr, and M1918 Trench
-New Cannons & Artillery; Cannone da 47/32 M35, Wurfgerät 41, SdKfz 124 Wespe
-New Vechicles; MCMG 16, STUG IV, Wasp, STUG G, Universal Carrier - Vickers
-New Squad Leader weapon choices and mobile artillery indirect fire

Features:
-31 Maps to Play Online including Point Du Hoc, Invasion of Crete, and Anctoville
-Over 15 Maps have Singleplayer Bot Support, with improved abilities and weapon use
-Fight with  over 75 weapons  used by Germany, Great Britian, United States, Canada, and Italy
-Drive nearly 100 unique vechicles belonging to the different sides of WW2
-Fly 16 unique aircraft for Germany, United States, and Britain

Torrents:

FH 2.3 Full Part I
http://80.190.246.101:6969/torrents/fh2_2.3_file_1from2_full_pass.torrent?3AA8426A906BCDE1F6BA466639A38877B357D184

FH 2.3 Full Part II
http://80.190.246.101:6969/torrents/fh2_2.3_file_2from2_full_pass.torrent?AD360CBB5E40113B1BAFE5A206898D70A7E9F692

PASSWORD WILL BE RELEASED @ FHMOD.ORG ON OCT. 1ST 2010!



Check the Archives on the FH Website to see more information on the Updates! http://fhmod.org

[Sgt.Radman]

+1, signed

[Flippy Warbear]

FH's youtube channel is a link you could and should spam all over the net. It has positive power.

[johnkeel105]

One idea that I had is a further embrace in social media. Does the FH2 mod team have a Twitter yet? That could be another way to help the mod go a bit viral.

[sn00x]

I am willing to pay to get FH advertised

[Ts4EVER]

I think one of the most "viral" and effective video is the transformer one from back in the days. That video has attracted more wtf comments on youtube than the rest combined

[Cory the Otter]

Twitter

Leave. Now.

[johnkeel105]

I really did like that Transformers video! 

On the Twitter hatred, I am not a strong advocate for it, but it serves my clan as an effective way of communicating short updates or events. For Forgottten Hope it could announce news updates, upcoming Forgotten Honor Tournaments, and other community events such as the Community Game Night. I would say that any method that helps to get more people  informed and into the game is a good thing.

[Sgt.Radman]

For events news and updates we have the forum - I think enough said.

[Cory the Otter]

do we really want fh2 to become as populated as PR?  it will be brimming with idiots!

[Excavus]

PR is not brimming with idiots.

[Cory the Otter]

well, all the 'smart' and 'teamplay-loving' gamers are going for PR, and we will most likely get a fair bit of the refuse.

[phillip]

its not zero sum.

[johnkeel105]

Well lets try to keep on topic, this isnt about zombies, or fh mod balance, or project reality. Lets focus on getting more players and coming up with good ideas to achieve this. I would even like to get some input from the fh devs.

[Slygathor]

I think Twitter would be a great Idea. It's a great medium for Companies or Game Dev's to get information out, or keep the people updated.