We NEED marketing!

(Herandar) #41

I thought the first two responses adequately dealt with the questions in the original post.

(LyndonL) #42

I’ve noticed in about three threads now. You say you want to get back on topic, but don’t add anything on topic in your message.

(3Suns) #43

Bungie did actually provide a bunch of handy shortcuts and tools for dealing with tools, but that is only because Halo attracts the sort like no other game. Funny thing is, even with various penalties, including temporary bans from matchmaking, they still can’t get rid of the rampant quitting.

Halo: you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.

(H0RSE) #44

Halo: you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.

You must have forgot about COD…worst. community. ever.

(Herandar) #45

Auto-mute is the jelly to COD peanut butter.

(Mad Hatter) #46

That only stops them from screaming profanity and racial slurs in your ear in their high-pitched, prepubescent voices. Doesn’t stop all of the other myriad griefing tactics and general douchebaggery. Not to mention that I’ve seen more mating animals and swastikas in the past few months than I have in all my years of watching Animal Planet and the History Channel.

I’m beginning to think I’ve become masochistic when it comes to my video game choices. But that all ends with Brink. Well, hopefully it’ll end with Homefront, which will hopefully tide me over until Brink. Fingers crossed eh?

As for marketing, there’s still plenty of time to really push Brink on the general public. I saw a Brink ad when I hopped on GameFAQs a few days ago. That’s one way to get the attention of a large group of gamers. I think Brink’ll be just fine. Juuuust fiiiine.

(engiebenjy) #47

Last week when I was on ign.com brink had a dropdown advert on the homepage with the trailer in it. I would have been interested had I not already known about brink.

(Murderous Pie) #48

When “the crowd” gets brink, any of the doushbags should be thinned out qickly… theyll be all like OMG why do kills only give me 25 XP? and then they rage quit.

(3Suns) #49

I’ve no doubt that Brink will appeal to a less douch-ey crowd. Seriously.

@Horse - I think the Halo crowd is much worse than the CoD crowd, simply because they can be. There are any number of ways a griefer can absolutely ruin a game in Halo (e.g., quitting, friendly grenades, friendly fire (CoD hardcore is the same, but not the more populated regular mode). Kill streaks are bad game design, not a griefer’s “tool”, and camping can be done in any game. Similarly, glitches and exploits are the fault of the dev, not the community playing the game. The voice experience may be just as bad, but for game ruining opportunities that aren’t glitches or exploits, Halo wins by miles.

(Jess Alon) #50

So wait… people trying brink and seeing that it’s a new way of playing and not wanting to give it a chance is a good thing?

Brink isn’t gonna be an exclusive cool club buddy.

Hopefully it’ll become a part of the norm in gaming and people in general will calm down a little.

But “rage quitting” isn’t going to do anything for Splash Damage’s reputation or financial future. Keep in mind that things will be a little more accessible then that.

(Murderous Pie) #51

[QUOTE=Jess Alon;260521]So wait… people trying brink and seeing that it’s a new way of playing and not wanting to give it a chance is a good thing?

Brink isn’t gonna be an exclusive cool club buddy.

Hopefully it’ll become a part of the norm in gaming and people in general will calm down a little.

But “rage quitting” isn’t going to do anything for Splash Damage’s reputation or financial future. Keep in mind that things will be a little more accessible then that.[/QUOTE]

I understand that, i just ment the 6 year olds that can barely understand the point of the game.

(LyndonL) #52

Who cares if they continue to play it… Let those fools buy a copy of it with their mum’s credit card irregardless

(Jess Alon) #53

Sweet. I don’t want to see SD whore themselves out or anything. But I’d like to see them see success in a huge way that changes the face of gaming. Maybe they can bring some integrity back to multiplayer FPS. And that’s not gonna happen if people quit as soon as they try the game.

But hopefully even a kid will be able to play this game and enjoy it.

Why else go for the T rating?

(Jess Alon) #54

Because if the learning curve is impossible and it’s inaccessible. And it doesn’t provide a way to leeway in to this new way of play. Then these dumb kids will bash Brink on amazon.com or similar which will hurt future sales regardless.

We’re living in a time where we’re fed the same crap over and over. Even little kids probably want something new by now.

(Seyu) #55

I’m tired of all this focus on the coolladitty kids.

On-topic: I think it’s ads on television and the like do the most publicity, the people who frequent gaming websites are serious enough to already know about Brink.

(madoule) #56

[QUOTE=Seyu;260650]I’m tired of all this focus on the coolladitty kids.

On-topic: I think it’s ads on television and the like do the most publicity, the people who frequent gaming websites are serious enough to already know about Brink.[/QUOTE]

tv ads are too expensive and are simply not feasible for a new IP. btw i haven’t seen any tv ads for major titles as mass effect (that is for germany and ireland). do you have had ads in … (put your country here) ?

i guess some POS marketing (gamestop, etc shops) and steam and the likes are more than great…

(Seyu) #57

No, I was not implying that television ads are the way to go. Only the big budget ones (your Halos, CoDs and Starcrafts) get themselves television spots, I was talking about the benefit of putting ads over gaming websites. But then again, if all the publishers indulge in it, these should be of some use.

(madoule) #58

oh, ok, gotcha!
you’re right, they gotta be over the internet anyways. that duty calls vid (and game) were quite a nice ad for bulletstorm… i had a laugh…

(Ix LP xI) #59

This game needs to be known to the “general public”. I would’ve never heard of this game if some people on another video game forums told me about it. When I heard the name, I looked it up on gametrailers and now I want to buy it. It surely isn’t your typical mainstream shooter but I think it will be a great, innovative game that will stand out from the others. The cinematic trailer would make a nice TV spot but they will need to cut it down a bit to fit in 30 seconds.

(DepressedOptimist) #60

Do you know if you look Brink up in google several times without cleaning out your cached history Brink ads will more likely be in the normal ad space for other websites. It’s true.

Another example of this is if you look up Munny, an art doll Kidrobot brand toys will pop up more frequently in those ad spaces.

One of googles features is to look at your searches and curb advertisement to whats most likely relevent to you. Once you clear your cache it starts over though.

As for Brink ads, I have a feeling they’ll have a tv spot on Comedy Central and Cartoon Network before May. And they’ve had loads of PR Via magazines, journalism, and Gaming sites. They’re one of gaming journalism’s favorite up and coming games, and I think its largely due to Splash Damage’s approachable attitudes.