"They love the game and want to do their part in trying to help it flourish," Stahly said. Stahly is fronting $1,000 from his past winnings, which he says matches equal contributions from Los Angeles Dodgers pitchers David Price and Joe Kelly, for a $3,000 tournament beginning July 11. The NA region competitive Discord community has eclipsed 1,600 members, and some individual players are going to great lengths to help grow the game. Who doesn't like dodgeball?" Groundswell of support for Knockout City "Anyone can pick it up at any time and feel like they're a good player, which is crazy. "I'm just really hoping it pops, because it just fits for everyone, I feel like," Stahly said.
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As of a few weeks ago, over 5 million people had already logged on - by now, that figure is probably closer to 10 million.īut although the trial no doubt inflated the overall totals, there's also ample evidence to support the existence of a burgeoning competitive scene.
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And EA has since extended the trial for the dodgeball-theme PVP "shooter" by Velan Studios, making the game free until players reach Level 25. It no doubt helped that the tournament launched within Knockout City's initial 10-day free trial window. Then, within five minutes, the whole Discord was spamming, 'Why is it only 64? My team couldn't even get in. "Once sign-ups went live, within two minutes, it filled up. "At first, it was a 64-team tournament," recalled Brandon "Stahly" Brenenstahl, whose team the TP Orgless Orphans took the $6,000 first prize for the NA region. In terms of the volume of players, the event was nearly four times the size of what was originally planned. One week after the title's May 21 release, EA held what remains the biggest Knockout City tournament to date, with two 256-team brackets and a $10,000 prize pool for North America and $5,000 for Europe. Hope some of these have use to you guys at Velan, I really wanna see this game get big.Electronic Arts has been aggressive in its promotion of Knockout City, yet even one of the largest video game publishers in the world wasn't prepared for the overwhelming response from esports enthusiasts. You'd have to get the okay from Discord, but it would be a fantastic way for players in-game to either ping their friends to jump in the voice-channel, or be salty and passive-aggressively imply that the only reason your enemies are winning is because they're all on discord together I dunno possible meme and a good bump for the discord. Its also would work good as an e-mail notification for ppl with EA accounts they would see the characters again and remember the trailer they saw/how much they were looking forward to trying it out.Īnother idea I had (maybe not as realistic but still possible) a discord emote you get for linking your discord account and joining the KO-city discord. I think this would be a good incentive for people to get their friends into the game and would give the playerbase a boost on launch.
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This game is sitting under the radar just a little and I think a good idea to pitch to the promotion team would be a refer-a-friend campaign wherein if you send someone your code and they buy/download the game and play their first match: you both get a set of emotes based around all the characters from the reveal trailer, some currency and an outfit token or two. I know you guys at Velan copped some slack for the trailer but all the streamers/youtubers I saw who watched it actually thought it looked cool from the gameplay, and afterwards many went on to comment that while the beginning of the trailer was misleading, they found the trailer characters fun.
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