User blog:Frozenreflex/Game Titles

The title of the game, along with the thumbnail, is the first thing people see about your game. It's a first impression of sorts, and can make or break a game. This has become a serious problem recently with a flood of bad games on the front page, most likely fed by bots or unknowing players.

Titles
To me personally, if I see the word 'simulator' in the title of the game, I've immediately been detered from playing. A game's title can most of the time also speak of the quality of the game. Simulator games most likely have the '+5,000,000 CASH' buttons on the side of the screen that you can't hide, along with unintuitive gameplay. I've seen examples of games that would attract me more with just a more intuitive name and thumbnail. Would you rather play Wild Revolvers or Gun Simulator (in which just play H3VR anyways because H3 is awesome)? Would you rather play Custom Tycoon Simulator or Miner's Haven? Would you rather play Shadow Run or Clicker Obby Simulator? Would you rather play Tower Battles or Tower Defense Simulator? I think you get my point, games with more creative titles usually garner more attention which could easily use 'simulator' in the name.

Thumbnails
Thumbnails can also make or break a game's rep. A cluttered and messy thumbnail can almost always deter me. Jailbreak's Rocket Fuel Update thumbnail made me not want to play it more than before, in which I didn't want to anyways, because the thumbnail now has a car smack dab where a real logo or title should be. For good examples of thumbnails, see CB:RO, Phantom Forces, Traitor Town (sorry for tons of shooter games), Lumber Tycoon 2, Heck, even Restaurant Tycoon, which changes it's thumbnail in most updates, isn't cluttered, as it uses a uniform logo along with replacing the previous update's background with a new background that isn't cluttered in any way.

Conclusions
This is just me wanting to write this down somewhere, but I certainly think people should see this and recognise the amount of bad games are on the front page and how we need more developers making real games, and getting rid of bots in the first place (heard there were somewhere above 1.6 million bot accounts) to avoid botted games as well.