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Title: Advertising Your Game Post by: Craig Stern on July 13, 2009, 11:22:20 AM How Not to Advertise on the Internet (http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001286.html)
:facepalm: Title: Re: Advertising Your Game Post by: 3dSquare on July 13, 2009, 11:54:32 AM Hahaha, its funny what money can make people do. :D
Title: Re: Advertising Your Game Post by: Mr. Yes on July 13, 2009, 12:00:29 PM Yeah I read that the other day. Hilarious.
Title: Re: Advertising Your Game Post by: Stegersaurus on July 13, 2009, 12:06:51 PM I dunno, I think I take more offense to them using copyrighted images over blatant clevage, though I do agree that the images should probably be more representative of the game. But, if this "strategy" is successful for them and they don't take any personal affront to their own strategy, should they change it?
Title: Re: Advertising Your Game Post by: Aquin on July 13, 2009, 12:53:02 PM Uhh... is this game NSFW? The advertising completely baffles me. It makes me think of a sex-line... not a video game.
Title: Re: Advertising Your Game Post by: Loren Schmidt on July 13, 2009, 05:25:06 PM I've been increasingly baffled by the ads for this game. They started out tacky, but now they're so completely ridiculous that I'm surprised it isn't backfiring. It's things like this that make me embarrassed to be male :-[
Title: Re: Advertising Your Game Post by: Μarkham on July 14, 2009, 04:59:44 PM They've got their ads all over Newgrounds, but over there they are animated.
This one goes through a few lines of text, one of which states that you can "Play UNNOTICEABLY on your browser NOW!" before settling on "Play now! my Lord" :D What the heck is "play unnoticeably" supposed to mean? That's not even a real word! Title: Re: Advertising Your Game Post by: Alec S. on July 14, 2009, 11:16:14 PM I mean, at this point, they just look like ads for dating sites. What's that going to accomplish. You're going to alienate people who won't click on sleazy ads, and you're going to disappoint the ones that do.
Title: Re: Advertising Your Game Post by: puddinlover on July 18, 2009, 12:32:04 AM Ya I happen to read this the other day too, haha.
Title: Re: Advertising Your Game Post by: Martin 2BAM on July 24, 2009, 08:28:05 AM The guys did it for the lulz, obviously.
At any rate, I wouldn't advertise like that for my Magnum Opus... but for the cash, what's the deal? Clearly they're making money because there is advertising on every fucking site on the Internet. Title: Re: Advertising Your Game Post by: Craig Stern on August 01, 2009, 04:00:22 PM :giggle:
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/07/30/plants-versus-zombies-versus-evony/#more-15285 Title: Re: Advertising Your Game Post by: Craig Stern on August 28, 2009, 07:07:19 PM Wow. So, apparently the company behind Evony has decided to go Tim Langdell (http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2009/08/evony_threatens_to_sue_over_de.php) on several writers that have criticized them. One, a games blogger, responds here (http://www.bruceongames.com/2009/08/25/evony-want-to-sue-me-for-telling-the-truth/), and again here (http://www.bruceongames.com/2009/08/26/why-use-warren-mckeon-dickson-to-threaten-me/).
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