Also Known As: banshee_revora (Steam) Joined: 15 Aug 2002 Location: Brazil
Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2014 4:27 am Post subject:
Top 100 Mod of the Year from ModDB
Hey everyone! It's that time of the year where the annual mod/indie popularity contest from ModDB/IndieDB invites everyone to vote on their favorite mods.
While I'm usually not a fan of this kind of popularity contest, specially at ModDB (where the editors usually ignore real time strategy projects possibly because FPS usually offers more polygons per model), I'm positively surprised with the outcome of this contest so far. PPM has several mods at the Top 100 and Generals: Zero Hour is the second game with the highest amount of votes.
So, we would be honored if you could take 25 seconds of your day to support our hosted mods by clicking in the image below and voting on each of them:
Regarding the Top 100 Indie, it's a pitty that OpenRA did not qualify to the top 100. Anyway, as a RTS fan, I'm cheering for 0.a.d which is an Age of Empires competitor with a great potential. Last edited by Banshee on Fri Dec 19, 2014 6:25 pm; edited 3 times in total QUICK_EDIT
where the editors usually ignore real time strategy projects possibly because FPS usually offers more polygons per model
I'm fairly sure this isn't true. And if we tally up the number of games in the top 100, 25% of them are RTS or Grand Strategy. 40% of the mods in the top 100 are for those 25%. So whether or not the editors ignore them there is clearly a following. And these stats haven't changed much in the past few years. QUICK_EDIT
Yep. We've had all of our major releases highlighted and om the front page, but certain mods always seem to reach the top even if they've not been updated for 3 years which is unfair, but hey. QUICK_EDIT
They look both excellent to me. Especially when you consider the huge total amount of mod projects. _________________ SHP Artist of Twisted Insurrection: Nod buildings
The "popularity" doesn't really mean much though; it's refreshed daily, not displaying the overall popularity of the mod over a longer time window. Basically, most of the time DTA has a rank between 80-200, but whenever we make a news post, our rank jumps to below 30 (depending on the activity of other mods, anywhere between 2 and 30) for a few days. I'd rather use the amount of ratings or the amount of watchers as a popularity metric, although they're also not accurate (update check statistics tell me that both DTA and TI have more players than one would assume from their watcher counts).
Also Known As: banshee_revora (Steam) Joined: 15 Aug 2002 Location: Brazil
Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2014 2:15 pm Post subject:
Orac wrote:
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where the editors usually ignore real time strategy projects possibly because FPS usually offers more polygons per model
I'm fairly sure this isn't true. And if we tally up the number of games in the top 100, 25% of them are RTS or Grand Strategy. 40% of the mods in the top 100 are for those 25%. So whether or not the editors ignore them there is clearly a following. And these stats haven't changed much in the past few years.
I was talking about the editors, not the crowd (player's choice).
When you check the Editor's Choice for best mods, you'll understand what I'm talking about. For quick reference:
If you verify each of the links above for FPS projects that were awarded by the Editors and pay attention that only one RTS mod was awarded for its visuals in 11 years of events, you'll notice that I do certainly have a point. QUICK_EDIT
Also Known As: banshee_revora (Steam) Joined: 15 Aug 2002 Location: Brazil
Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2014 1:08 am Post subject:
I keep my words. This time they've chosen 2 RTS mods (*sarcasm* WOW!!! *sarcasm*) and.... guess what? 8 first person shooters, of course. However, I trully did not expect they'd look at Tiberian Sun mods. I guess it's always good to put some pressure on them j/k.
Also, if you pay attention at the attributes they've awarded on each mod, you'll notice that they still award the quality of shooters. Lambda Wars was an exception. Regarding TI, they didn't look at the mod itself. They've recognized its community support.
Anyway, congrats, Aro and the whole TI team! I'm very surprised and happy for Twisted Insurrection taking the community award there . Considering the effort you've guys placed in this mod, I'm glad that it is getting part of the recognition it deserves. QUICK_EDIT
Joined: 22 Nov 2010 Location: Iszkaszentgyorgy, Hungary
Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2014 1:54 pm Post subject:
TL;DR: The editors are biased towards a genre since day 1, 'nuff said.
Regardless, congratz, TI. _________________ "If you didn't get angry and mad and frustrated, that means you don't care about the end result, and are doing something wrong." - Greg Kroah-Hartman
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I can confirm that a handful of the ModDB editors have actually played through and reviewed TI at least though, there was a recent mod-cast which we were featured in, and they had some kind words to say (but also got some things wrong, ouch). But for the most part, I agree with you that FPS the dominant genre, we no longer live in the World where Sonic the Hedgehog is the best thing ever, but instead join the line of waiting for Half-Life 3 and learning CS:GO.
Back in the early days, FPS only had DOOM, Quake and a few other titles storming the World, but these days there are tons of FPS games that have made an impact, what modern RTS games have made an impact recently aside from perhaps Starcraft 2? I genuinely don't know. QUICK_EDIT
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Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2014 11:16 pm Post subject:
Well it is true that FPS is MUCH MUCH more popular than any else kind of genre due to it immersion and action. It is no wonder why alot of people play like Call of Duty, Renegade, BF, BL and other than RTS. (But if it was combination of RTS and FPS, it would be a different story, lol)
Congrats TI and DTA. _________________ Mod Leader and founder of World Domination
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