Ron Gilbert (GrumpyGamer)If you ask 10 game dev friends to play your game's prototype/alpha, 5 Won't even download it, 3 of those who download it will boot it once and say "looks great, I'll try it this weekend" and never do. 2 will give you feedback, only 1 of those will give you useful feedback. Cheer up, It has nothing to do with how good your game is, it's just math.
fenomas@grumpygamer I'm in this mode now! My non-gamedev friends install at a somewhat higher rate, but somehow once they're in the game they forget how technology works and start asking things like "what do I do with this button? Click it? With what, my mouse?"