Why sell My Brute merchandise?
Before I go really in-depth on the new My Brute merchandise I thought I would explain why they are now selling it and my opinion on it. As I mentioned in my post about My Brute failing, they have a lot of downtime and I think the main reason for the downtime is that they cannot afford to keep their servers up. They refuse to put any advertisements up besides the ones for their own games and from what I can see do not really understand how to monetize a website. So, they’ve decided to try to sell merchandise (mugs and t-shirts) in order to make money to keep My Brute afloat. In my opinion this is a terrible way to try to make money (most of the people who play My Brute are young and I highly doubt they generate very many sales) and they should stick to traditional forms of advertising (banners). However, here is some information on their new merchandise in case you are interested in buying some for your brute.

If you have logged into your cellule on My Brute anytime in the past month or so you probably noticed the new shop button pictured on the right. Click that button to be taken to the following pages to create and order a mug or t-shirt for your My Brute. You don’t have to actually pay for the shirt or mug to build it and see what it would look like. You can simply follow these directions to take a look at it.

Armor or no?

If your My Brute has armor then the first step is to choose whether you would like him/her to have armor on the image that will go on the mug or shirt.

Mug or t-shirt?

Next you can choose whether you would like to order a mug (16 euros) or a shirt (from 18 euros).

A mug

A shirt

My Brute doesn’t actually do the shirts and mugs themselves. They have partnered with comboutique.com to do all the work for them (if you look in your address bar you’ll notice you’re no longer on MyBrute.com at this point). I have not ordered a mug or shirt so I do not really know the quality of the product, but if anyone wants to post after they’ve purchased in the comments and let us know that would be great!

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We are giving away at least 400 pupils to one random reader!

These 400 pupils will really help you in your quest to become a Brutal Legend. That’s an additional at least 400 experience points! You can view our My Brute experience list to see how much that can level up you.

So, what do you need to do to enter?
Entering the drawing is quick and easy. First you must have a My Brute so if you do not create one now. Second, post your My Brute pupil link in the comments on this post AND in the comments on our Post Your Pupil Link post. You must post your pupil link in BOTH POSTS or you will not qualify for the drawing.

We also ask that you sign up for our My Brute newsletter (e-mail required). Although this is not required to be entered into the contest it is a great way to keep up to date with all the happenings here at MyBruteGame.com

Once you have posted your pupil link on both this post and the other you are officially entered to win.

When will we choose a winner?
We will choose one lucky winner within 24 hours of this post reaching 1,000 views OR when 100 comments (entries) have been posted.

How will we choose the winner?
We will randomly select one random comment from the comments below and then check to make sure that pupil link has also been posted on our Post Your Pupil Link page as well. If they meet that requirement we will have our winner. If not we will choose another comment and repeat the verification step.

Once a winner has been chosen we will make sure they receive at least 400 pupils over the next week. We will also make a post announcing the winner and include their pupil link there as well

If you have any questions please feel free to post them below or contact us on Twitter!

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Forgotten what you are supposed to do next?
1. Head over to your cellule, login, and complete your three fights!
2. Register to enter your brute into the My Brute Tournament!
3. Take a screen shot of your cellule so you have something to look at tomorrow when the site goes down again.

Twitter user froodydude makes a good point, who knows how long this up-time will last…

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It appears that La Brute is down just like MyBrute.com, however, El Bruto is up and you can create a new character there and play.

La Brute

Creating your character for El Bruto
Creating an elbruto.es character is the same as creating a character for MyBrute.com. Even if you do not know Spanish (which includes me) you can easily walk yourself through the creation process and once you have done that all the other features of El Bruto are the same as My Brute except they are in Spanish.

Create your El Bruto under my new character elstickycarroto.

elstickycarroto cellule

Hopefully the French and English versions of My Brute will come back up soon. A lot of people have worked very hard to promote their brutes just to have the game crash and die. Plus, what will I have to talk about all the time?

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Here is a graph of MyBrute.com’s traffic since about May of 2009 from Alexa.com:

It does not take a mathematician or rocket scientist to look at that graph and see what is happening. MyBrute.com is failing. They are seeing a steady decrease in traffic and popularity in just the past couple months and the obvious culprit is their increase in downtime. So, how can My Brute fix this? Stop the downtime! If their issue, which it is believed by many to be, is a lack of funds to allow the server’s to stay up then they need to figure out a way to monetize the site (maybe put up some advertisements from Google AdSense or other big advertising networks) to help offset the costs.

No matter what the issue it needs to be quickly before they are past the point of recovery and have to shut down. To be honest I am absolutely sick of these brutal errors.

Please take the poll and leave your thoughts in the comments below.

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As My Brute fanatics we are getting used to seeing this message (it appears on a daily basis throughout the day), but should we just accept it? How many times have you headed over to Google.com to perform a search just to find the site down? Never. Most websites could not operate and be successful if they went down as often as My Brute does, but somehow they still do it.

Please My Brute, stop with the brutal errors. I love the game and cannot accept that you cannot keep it up.

My Brute fans, please feel free to voice your opinion below in the comments.

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