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Popular games 2010-07-12 11:19:43 Reply

Why does newgrounds feature a game on the top of the home page before they get popular? Do they know that it will be good? Have they played a demo before? For example, Epos got featured while it was under judgement

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Response to Popular games 2010-07-12 11:20:52 Reply

They don't pick games because they're popular. They pick them because they're good.

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Response to Popular games 2010-07-12 11:21:46 Reply

Tom or Wade had probably been previously notified and knew what the game was, so they could put it on the front page as soon as it was in the portal.

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Response to Popular games 2010-07-12 11:23:34 Reply
At 7/12/10 11:20 AM, Stevenscar wrote: They don't pick games because they're popular. They pick them because they're good.

Games get popular because they're good.

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Response to Popular games 2010-07-12 12:38:34 Reply

A lot of games are submitted to the portal and featured early simply because they have a bunch of medals for them and a lot of people here want to get those as soon as possible. Some of the authors were probably just lucky enough to notify Tom Fulp of them and he or Wade looked at them early and really liked them as they have final say after all. It could be that some game producers are so popular, they get front page because they are so popular.

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