Comments & Suggestions for @IslandsofNyne (Requested today by a viewer)

TLDR: Its a long read so either read it or don't. Marketing / PR



• Twitch Drops for Partners & esports

It's a pretty straight forward method to market your game while also supporting your streamers/ community, also dramaticially increasing esports viewership.



• F2P weekend once a month



• Re-evaluate existing Partner Program

Partner program hasn't been effective in bringing streamers into the game, and introduces new names that can effectively become PR nightmares at this point.



• Partner Program Exclusions?

Quite a few notable streamers who have been playing IoN are missing.. SandyRavage, Hitch, and P90Princess to just name a few. Lack of notable community members (like Gameface, and Iridium.. These guys will benefit the game more than any 60 viewer Fortnite streamer you could pull over)

Then we get into the larger streamers, we have seen JoshOG, Summit, DrDisRespect, TimTheTatman, Lirik all play the game but not since the first day or two and no explanation why? Shroud mentioned a deal being struck with DHS but with nothing more coming from that it leads to a large percentage of the community to believe that IoN doesn't interest any of these streamers anymore. Is there more to it? If so any teasers, or transparency would be great.



• Transparency

You are an indie company, remember that.. and that isn't always a bad thing, you guys aren't buried under endless NDAs and an investor negatively influencing the games future. Be open with us, we all want you to succeed, and want to hear from you, we want to invest our time into the game but need to be assured there is more to the plan then just hoping Shroud says something nice about the game.

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New Content + Updates + Changes



• Character Customization

I would have thought the time traveling Nyne would have taken more than just white bald men into the dome..



• Player Avatars

Using the Steam profile pictures is highly problematic, it allows stream snipers and trolls to create a huge issues for streamers and make me question why it was included in the first place? (For Example I died to "niggatits" today and if the name wasn't enough the profile picture matched the name). My suggestion for replacing this would be In-game avatars that can be earned through esport tournaments (Similar to CSGO trophy badges for placing/winning a Major), earned through In-game achievements, and Partner Avatars that can be redeemed by community members that provide in-game branding for partners (Similar to Warframe).



• Gun Changes

Alter the elite weapons into new guns with similar traits/ stats to allow for further skin customization and more variety.



• Skin Store

Reduce the amount of skins sold per period, increase price from $5. A healthy skin economy is huge for games, having nice rare skins that are expensive and less special more common skins is huge and at the current rate we won't have a skin worth more then a coffee.



• Gameplay changes

I've heard you guys are making improvements so I can't comment on most of that stuff, although consider letting us remove the Lens/Sun glare and other QoL improvements some people have been asking for since closed alpha.



• Announcer Packs

I'd love to be able to buy different voice packs and be able to choose whether I want the default or if I want a popular streamer like DrDisRespect to scream at me so I know the zone is moving, or a prominent community member like Gameface to calmly tell me to stop all hostilities as the match is about to begin.



•Ranked Solos

I'm really starting to feel bad for some of the new players when they are running into the sweats.. CSGO without a ranked MM would be awful.. Just split them as well as you can if playerbase grows back to 3-4k and above. Just having bronze - gold and plat- champ would be enough to make learning the game a little bit friendlier.





At the end of the day just content. Even if it seems low priority, that stuff makes the game feel more than just a indie alpha.



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I don't expect you guys to act on all of this, just consider it and maybe think of a better way to implement something similar.





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