Things are a bit more complicated though. Targeting gamers is like targeting general population (i.e. non-BOINC, non-crypto). That means bounce rates are likely to be close to 90%. Certainly, we could throw money at it, but without some highly-professional banners and a new, flashy website, it's probably much too wasteful. Gamers are targeted by many advertisers, it would require a huge effort to stand out among the competition there.
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Well, I installed boinc all those years ago because i'm a pc gamer and liked the idea to donate excess performance to a good cause. We also have a reason to turn our pc on a daily (well.. used to be daily) basis.
Furthermore the statistics, achievements and awarding of badges reaching a milestone in a project is a sort of gamification of the system and keeps people motivated and certainly for gamers drawn to it.
Ah now you've got me thinking.. Is there any way to offer achievements and badges directly to GRC users? The stats are all out there, so surely a framework could be built to track a user and offer badges / awards (even rewards for special achievements) for reaching certain milestones or performing certain tasks...
"Congratulations! You staked your first block!"
Just a thought! I'm sure someone else could add more depth to this idea, but I'm up for creating badges if it might provide some incentive to join and get more folks BOINCing :)
Imagine tying it into steam as well so that a Boinc/Gridcoin bundle could be installed to your steam library so that you can see how many hours the programs have run for on your PC, and directly ties back to steam achievements...
This would be a certain way to get more gamers to contribute processing power, although a streamlined Gridcoin/Boinc client would be required.
Awesome! Maybe to incorporate it in @sc-steemit 's gridcoinstats site, in the user detail page?
I like to figure out how much CPU power certain games actually need and try optimise them in a way that I can run BOINC while enjoying a good gaming session! ;)
I have found that diablo 3 uses only a small amount of resources so that you can keep on gaming even while running both CPU and GPU projects :)
https://steemit.com/gaming/@donkeykong9000/gaming-and-boincing-earning-gridcoin